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BUNNIES

I am so over the news today.

More shit from the bushies, different day.

Data mining. Corruption.

Let me tell you about the bunnies.

When we first moved here there were rabbits everywhere.

We would walk the streets and trails and there they were.

Then they go really sparse. I heard that there was a virus or something and a lot got wiped out.

Overpopulation. Like us. AIDS, Flu, the new streptococcus.

And then there is development. Soon, there will not be one empty lot in our neighborhood.

The bunnies have a new challenge.

But, we live on the edge of conserved land and some homes have big bushes.

The rabbits are returning. Not yet in droves, but they will soon achieve that level of population.

Three days a week, I take a bike ride through golf courses and by the water treatment plant (we used to call it sewage treatment) which, as I have mentioned before, is right next to the Knotts Water Park.

The pipes are NOT connected. They say so.

But out there are many many bushes and lots and lots of grassy knolls and many, many bunnies. I sometimes have to ring the bell or shout to clear the dear little things from running back and forth in front of me.

If I hit one, I would have to stop biking.

I love rabbits.

On the subject, we do not have any jack-rabbits around here anymore. They need more range and room to run.

Our rabbits are the cottontail.

Except for one.

Down at the end of our closest street there is a large 'field'. Here, 'field' means unirrigated land; desert with desert bushes.

Right there in the middle of the field, any morning, you can see a big white/black/brown piebald rabbit

My guess is that someone dumped him out there.

He seems to be doing very well.

We keep waiting to see if there are any piebald cottontail babies that have arrived.

So far, none.

Maybe he is accepted socially but not for sex.

It is a worry.