Unexpected Visitor...

 

The older I get, the more I realize that with the dawning of each new day comes a new and perhaps surprising experience.  I have been discovering at this stage of my life (8 decades plus) that no matter how young or old you might be, there is always something new to learn, experience, or discover.

It is late Spring, 2023, and this morning was one of those "discovery" days!  I get up pretty early most days because I have flowers in my garden that need watering or else they will die in this desert heat.  I love my garden and I love my flowers.  On this particular day, I discovered there was a visitor in my yard...an uninvited visitor!  Oh, it's not that I dislike wildlife, but when they invade my growing things and think it is their food, that is where I draw the line.

This morning, I was greeted by a little grey bunny (probably an adult...or a pesky "teen-ager") sitting just behind my favorite red flowers!  ;Startled at first, I wasn't sure what to do, so I turned the hose on "him," "her," "it," and startled it, as well!  I chased it all over the yard and called for my husband to join.  It was a merry chase!

For the life of us, we could not figure out how it got into the yard.  Dean had spent days and hours "bunny-proofing every inch of our fence!  It would seem that that was to no avail.  Somehow, somewhere, that little pest got into the yard.   It was quite funny to watch it run (hop) to the corner where it used to get in and freeze!  There was no way out.  Throughout this merry chase, it dawned on me that the other day, I found the side gate open and it had been open for at least a day and a night.  I shut it and hoped that was the end of the drama.

What I am thinking, and my husband agrees, that bunny was already in the yard, probably hiding in one of the bushes, and I had just shut him "in," not "out!"

After chasing the rascal around the yard with "deer-out"spray, I opened the gate and let it out.  Hopefully that is the end of the drama and I will not find this little furry bunny-rabbit in my yard again.  No more chasing him out of my garden...that is, util someone forgets and leaves the side gate open again!

Don't you just love a new discovery to add to a little flavor to your life's journey?  😄