Rummuser recently wrote his family and friends have been pointing out he’s no longer a spring chicken. Welcome to the club, Rummuser. Andy came home last night with this picture, saying, “I just don’t get any respect anymore.”
He walked right past that rabbit when he walked from the shed to the well house. The rabbit didn’t move. He just sat there watching Andy.
But he wasn’t nearly as bad as the one a few years ago. Andy was walking down to the greenhouse, and there was a rabbit in the path. The rabbit just looked at him and didn’t move. Andy had to walk around him.
Yep. We oldsters just don’t get any respect.
January 2, 2015
Rabbit probably thought he was hidden in plain sight so long as he didn’t move.
Best wishes for the New Year!
It looks as if he was partially protected from the wind too.
Best wishes to you, too! Are you fully retired now?
I haven’t had a pay check since April 2013, so I’ve been pretty much fully retired since then. However, the folks back where I used to work are trying to get authorization for me to come back on another contract. If that happens, I’ll suspend Social Security payments until the contract is finished as I’m not old enough to work without being penalized on SS benefits.
Your “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” option doesn’t seem to be working. I had to come back to this post to check for your response. That’s when I saw your question. It hasn’t been working for a while, at least for my comments, and I checked my e-mail address in the comment email field and it’s correct.
I don’t know why you’re not getting notified — I wish there was something I could try, It doesn’t look as if it’s anything I have control over, and the theme Twenty Ten is supposed to be fairly solid.
By now they know that he is totally harmless! Not that I am, but I doubt very much that some rabits around here will sit still like that if I pass them by!
I live in India. Here there are two possible scenarios. One you are respected because you are old or the other more common one, you are ignored /insulted for having the nerve to become old! Thankfully, the former is more the rule and the latter only when there is a lot of money involved.
I imagine age is respected more in India than it is here in the states. We still remember when we were in Alaska and the hotel was above the town. We were walking down the path when we encountered some cheeky youngsters running up, calling, “Don’t have a heart attack!” We still laugh at that.
I don’t know about rabbits, but I certainly get no respect from cats. They either stare at me contemptuously or run away at great speed. I don’t what vibes I’m giving out but they sure aren’t cat-friendly.
I don’t think cats respect anyone. Humans are their servants.
That rabbit is giving him great respect. ‘I’ll sit here & be my insignificant self, to see that you get to go to where you’re headed’.
The rabbits at our high-altitude cabin are snow white in the winter & brown in the summer.
You’d think it was a different kind of rabbit, but No. Their fur changes color to match the land. ‘How they do that huh?’
Duh -I figured out their secret. When they need lots more warmth, white fur grows up thick & high, covering the summer brown fur. Yeah!
When the snow melts & ground is white mixed with brown, the rabbit sheds white fur & looks the same. Yeah!
You might be right about the rabbit. It figured it wasn’t going to bother Andy, and Andy wouldn’t bother it.
I think animals that change color just replace the old fur with the new. We saw a weasel once run across our “orchard” area. It was completely white and was highly visible because there was no snow on the ground yet. It had changed colors too soon.
it’s a frozen bunny.
xo
It’s nose was twitching and it was gone today, poor baby.
Andy needs to bark like a dog… then the rabbit will respect him 😉
😀 Great idea!
poor cold rabbit… trying to keep warm…
I agree, it was cold!