This is a sketch I made yesterday…I’m going to make a small oil painting to hang up in honor of our recently departed friend. We buried her in the flower garden under a nice, large rock. Raul wants to make a cement plaque to put on top where I’ll draw the bunny symbol, and write her name and birth and death dates.
All this for a rabbit?! You bet! I didn’t realize how much a part of our lives she was until now. It’s the little things that keep surprising me, like when I walk out in the morning and get the impulse to greet her, and remember that she isn’t there. When I hear a noise and automatically scan the floor for a little fuzzy friend. When we walked past the garden and see a whole row of Italian parsley that we planted and that no-one will be eating. When we are laying in bed in the morning and I say our old joke “Raul, who’s gonna make our breakfast for us?” and he responds “Not the Pisky.” I mean, who are we gonna blame for those messy countertops and un-folded clothes? I guess our new scapegoat is going to have to be Pisky’s ghost, ’cause we sure aren’t going to be owning up to our own messes any time soon.
Yes, life does go on. But it’s just a little melancholy at the moment. Thank you all so much for your kind words and thoughts. To answer a few of you who’ve asked: No, I don’t think we’ll be getting another bunny for quite a while. That would just be a rebound bunny. There’s no replacing a good friend. Have a good weekend everyone.
Ruff Haven says
What a beautiful tribute to a wonderful bunny.
warm hugs