Thursday after work we went out to meet a rabbit. Two rabbits, in fact. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger had found a pair of rescued rabbits ready for adoption and in a town in the Lansing area. These were literal rescues, two domestic rabbits who'd been abandoned in the wild. After being caught and treated for everything from fleas to tapeworm(!) they're about ready for a permanent home.
So this was our chance to meet them. bunnyhugger had originally started talking to them about just one rabbit, the one with the pleasantly human name of Walter. But the foster keepers were pushing heavily the idea that he should be adopted alongside Larry, named for everyone's favorite gym trainer from Pokemon Spain (probably not). We were given not-quite-clear answers about whether the two were a bonded pair. It seems unlikely that two male rabbits would decide they just had to live together, but on the other hand, if they'd been set loose in the wild and stuck together they probably have some interest in being with one another.
Our meeting was ... well, you know from my lack of a report about the new rabbit/rabbits adopted that we didn't take them home. Walter was an active and curious rabbit, throwing stuff around but not quite venturing outside his pen to meet us. Larry was even more reserved, staying on the far side of his pen apart from one moment of hopping up to my hand, nose-bumping it, and then recognizing me as a stranger and hightailing it back to his reserve. This reserve isn't a bad thing --- it's absurd to think whether we adopt a rabbit depends on whether they decide to flop at our feet twice --- but it must be admitted.
We didn't feel anything right at the moment to say we had to have either of these rabbits. They're nice, certainly, and we probably would get to like them well. We'd prefer to have larger rabbits; these were a more ordinary seven or eight pounds and not in any way Flemish giants, though they had some handsome shape to them. We might come back to them, if we start to feel the rabbit-lack in our lives too much, the way Penelope the Californian came to be with us for too little a while. But for now we're looking yet.
Here's some more pictures from Easter, mostly visiting bunnyhugger's parents and their town.
Oh, Pookie, how can that be comfortable? ... I deliberately didn't rotate this picture to the correct orientation because this is more interesting.
Walking around town. One of the ancient, near-forgotten boat ladders was cleared out enough to be usable.
The bandstand had gotten renovated lately and it's looking nice.
Hey, look at that ancient rock wall in the park, I never noticed that before. How old could that be?
Ah, it's from 2015. All right.
I'm guessing the place was actually renovated or maybe restored to usability in 2015, and that the rock stairs and all are much older.
Trivia: In 1973 the International Astronomical Union established a Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature, which created task subgroups to name features for the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the outer solar system. They had in 1970 established a Mars nomenclature working group for features revealed by Mariner 4 and anticipated to be revealed by Mariner 9. Source: Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery, Stephen J Pyne.
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