reaching into the archives, just because. maybe it's the new cover of my custom calendar.

i'm thinking about a way to take my procrastination and turn it into something else. the new year has come and gone. i missed the first day of the the year of the rabbit too! so now what? wait until next year?

i could, but i'm worse with patience than i am with procrastinating. solution: i'm thinking about making custom calendars. the start date can be your birthday, your bunny's birthday, easter etc. you just name the date and the year and i'll start it there.

hold on now partner, that's not the end of the customizing....you can even pick out photos from all of potentiallynervous's archives....whee!

OR and this is a big OR,

you can send me your OWN photos and i'll retouch them for you, giving them that Pnervous 'look'. now for the biggest 'OR' of all! if you live in portland or seattle i'll come and do a custom photo shoot of you and your bunny! how tempting is all that? there's more....i can make these calendars black and white or an actual print that you can detach from the calendar page and hang on the wall, 5x7, 8x10, or 11x17. we're only limited by your imagination....how's that feel? expansive? i hope so!!! so just sit back and be creative, bark out the orders and i'll do all the work!

email me with requests or questions: contact@rubinelliglass.com

of course this applies to cards and postcards too. i just found decal material (thanks tamara!!!) so i can take any image and put it on a tee shirt or tote. you all know i've been doing this through cafe press, but their percentage is so huge i never recouped my teensy weensy start up costs. i feel this is a way for me to finally start this bunny business for real. so please send any all suggestions or ideas along...i'd love to read what you have to say.

green bun packers.

what?! that's almost an outfit! what would YOU say if the man of the house wanted to dress your bunny in a green bay packers bandana? what if you had a naked bunny policy? what if they won the superbowl?

the first 'set'

it was our second day on the road, we had just left a colorful KOA in toledo ohio, luckily this was in the truck stop parking lot. get ready bunnies, we're not in new york anymore!

hallucinating trucker.

then there was miss madison

not unlike the truckers, madison had no idea quite what to think. perhaps one of the few things madison has in common with such a demographic.

beauty and a little bit of beast.

on location

breaking the 'bunny only' rule.

since mr. perfect drove each and every inch of this trip, i designated myself documentarian. a spectacular drive, i shot almost every single frame through the passenger side window since rolling down the windows involved perhaps a little too much noise for you know whose furry ears.

breaking the 'no people' rule

there really isn't a way to tell this tale without some sort of people shots. the bunnies tucked themselves under the bed to sleep, with bells constantly planting himself as close to his new love as he could possibly be. this practice has continued and now verges on obnoxious.

an oldie but a goodie!

...the story of the road trip that is. it seems forever ago that we made our trek across this united states, but as luck would have it this saturday night is the night i'm going to try to show and tell it. here's the magic caravan that transported all of us safely out west. the bunnies dominated the car...they had the entire back of our SUV, complete with glass jars of their mountain spring well water that the we brought all the way from woodstock, tunnels that malcolm and nadine sent us from canada, along with a super deluxe pet carrier that bells and nuage turned into their fort to periscope in going 65 mph....oh ya and let's not forget their almighty shutters that were strapped to roof rack. two litter boxes and 80 year old miniature china bowls full of whatever little treats we could think of. they were so comfy that they ate, slept and played the entire drive, they truly never even seemed ot notice that we were doing something i was terrified of. all my stuff was loaded into the camper, that is what little stuff i could fit in there after taking as much of their fencing as i could. we set up that fencing every chance we got (rest areas, walmart parking lots, you name it) and drove in 2-3 hour spurts, never exceeding 6 hours a day. bless this sweet camper, a 1968 shasta!

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do you suppose we can just start posting again as if nothing's happened? great!

i've started my grand love affair with kinko's!!! they have such snappy wifi here. it might be fair to assume that if one falls in love with a kinko's connection, sandwiched between cranking xerox machines, your internet is probably not so hot at home...one of the few trade offs for living in paradise.

nuage went to our beach the other day...these are my top 6. i'd love to know which one ya'll like the most. while you scramble to decide, i'll continue retouching. i'd like to try to tell some of the story of our road trip. stay tuned!

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we made it!!!! look for the bunny mega post soon....

i want to be all wordy, clever and perky, but right now i've got the camper equivalent of jet lag....give me a couple of days and i'll be posting more photos than you can shake an apple branch at! thank you all for your support....seriously!!!!! until the next update please know that the bunnies had a great time hopping across the country!!!!

south dakota

in the camper

in the car

post packer game glow..

bunnies in madison

bells at an ohio rest stop

bunnies on green

Born Again bunnies.

second coat....done! OK, almost done.

it's so hard to know where to start! for me, once i get out of the blogging loop it's even more difficult to jump back in. it's like i need to wait until i have the most perfect bunny photo ever in the history of the world or i don't deserve to be allowed to come back without some sort of dire consequences...oh, it's not that big of a deal? ok!

well then, here we are with a mediocre bunny photo!

a few years ago i would have never thought i'd be so crippled by bunny photos, the pressure i put on myself is perhaps a wee bit more than you might imagine. then let's toss a little cross country bunny relocating project on top of it! that's enough to shut me right down.

oh, you don't care...right! back to bunnies....

first and foremost, we have not left yet. we are leaving for sure before oct. 1. that's when my cabin will be taken over by it's new occupant. however we may be leaving sooner....i've been instructed to tell everyone who asks that i'm leaving in two weeks. just so that everything isn't left until the last minute. there has been a long list of things to take care of and things unexpected and things that have a propensity to create some stress and things that aren't as stressful as you'd maybe think but i'd prefer to just skip all of that and get right to the good stuff.

our first camper trailer fell through at the last minute, so we had to scramble to find another one. we did! it's the one here in this photo. a 1968 shasta!!! i'm in the process of getting it gussied up for the ride and all the upcoming documentation!

i've been taking the boys out for little practice rides in the car...it's going pretty well. bells will be the trickiest, but we'll be packing cisapride, my oral syringe collection and anything else i can think of to jump start a bunny. oh yes, and most importantly, ALL their Xpens so that they get tons of exercise along the way. we're planning on staying at state parks and bunny friendly campsites. mr. perfect, (let's just call him that from now on) has purchased an enormous heavy duty waterproof tent so that even if it's raining i can run them around inside the tent to keep them active and hopefully happy!

nuage had a bot fly incident recently too which was nothing serious, but still very scary! neither one of them has been let outside since, or not much, unless i can run around beside his wound with a fly swatter. but he's finally looking all healed up from his lancing and will be perhaps let out tomorrow when he might be having a very special visitor....lisee is driving up here at some point to meet them before we leave and we couldn't be more excited!!! we're thinking she may be coming tomorrow!

i know there's tons of other stuff to tell you but i also know all you really care about is more photos, so let me get this camper painted and cushions refabric'ed and finish up the rest of the maintenance checking and propane tank filling and water holding thingy cleaning then packed and then mail all my stuff out west and sell what i can and then give the rest to sal's army and then i'll be up and at 'em once again with my camera i promise!!!!! and now that the pressure is off since i'm going to settle into mediocre bunny photos i may even post a little more often.


thank so much for checking with us and for asking how we're doing....it means a lot!!!!!

update coming soon!

practice makes perfect....now who has a bridge for sale?

the long and the fur of it.....

fly, drive, fly, drive....the votes are in, and it's a landslide!!! driving the bunnies it is!! now these bunnies have been driven places before so i'm not going into this all innocently, bright eyed, bushy tailed and full of ignorant optimism. BUT as with everything bunny, hoping for the best. i know full well that bells could pull a little GI stasis out of his hat, stopping the whole thing wherever and for however long he damn well pleases....like the bunny version of russian roulette.

in fact we just picked out our camper trailer too. it's a sweet little number that pops up and down and folds in and out and will make a nice resting place for our growing family. yup! we have a new addition...and it's not a furry friend, in fact he's not furry at all! nor is he two inches off the ground either.

cliff notes please.....

wait just a minute now...is this a bunny blog or a danielle steele novel? it's a bunny blog!!! so please squelch the romance talk....let's just say that we were dear friends and roommates 20 years ago and now after all this time he's found me again, thank you very much goo goo goo google!

there's a whole lot of lovey-dovey stuff im leaving out, but the skinny version is that he's coming back out here in a few weeks to get me and the bunnies and take us back to the west coast. sure there were talks of him moving here, but guess what? besides being absolutely fabulous, and ridiculously adorable, (he knows it too, not unlike a very tall bunny) but he's actually got a job to boot! supposedly there's more where that comes from, so with bunnies in tow, we're making the trek. ever since my first trip there, oregon has always been my favorite state and now i hear there's a whole bunch of glass studios! AND D moll!!! foon!!! tamara!!!! malcolm and nadine!!!! lynne!!!!! aren't too far away....can you guys even imagine when i get my hands on amelia or nibs?!?!?!

we'll be here until the end of september. so jade, lisee, lisa, shell....and ANYONE else who has wanted to meet the bunnies we're still right here!!! so get yourselves in gear and come visit! those of you out west or even in the middle i'm not sure how this is all going to work, but we may be driving right past your house! depending on how little bells does, he really does hate the car....we may be stopping for extended periods of time, hence the camper!

in conclusion...

i'm starting this adventure by putting them in the car for brief rabbit reality adjustments. they'll just sit inside while nothing traumatic happens. they'll be outfitted with their favorite treats tunnels and blankets while they're doing this. then after a few times of it not being at all scary...we'll go on little trips. then we'll go on bigger trips. then we'll just drive from new york to oregon, easy peasey. right?! they will have the entire back of my exterra all to themselves and i'll have it flattened out and comfy cozy so that one of us can crawl back there and make sure that bells isn't piercing nuage's back and neck with his claws....which is what he usually does, but i've never had a co pilot before!!! we're also only packing their x pen collection in the camper so as soon as we stop they'll have up to 4000 feet of bunny run around room in any state park that's luck enough to have them! do you think that's enough?

i sure do want to thank you ALL for your advice and your stories and so many great ideas!!!!! i also want to thank those of you who helped me so much with your RAW file input. turns out i needed to install the software that came with the camera. duh! i've done all that now, but i still haven't braved trying to download them! i have no room on my hard disc...the story of my life. so i have to move stuff to the external hard drive, then delete and then learn to edit RAW files and then i'll have an empty memory card to take more bunny photos with! how lame am i? that's rhetorical...i know darn well how lame i am, so zip it!

oh and bunny girl, you mean you're NOT the diary of a slow triathlete? i always thought you were! she must have been confused by some of my comments then...

more Iphone photos and some bunnillion dollar questions

ok, ok, ok, ready, set, go! here's the letter i just sent my vet....who wants in on it? i'd love to read as much feedback as possible so all you know it all bunny mamas and papas with opinions as long as the day....let 'em rip or forever hold your peas.

so without further ado, here's the letter/bombshell:

i'm moving to oregon, and i'm really at a loss for how to try to figure out the best way to get the bunnies across the country. it's just bells and nuage still.

if i flew them maybe they could be sedated? could i administer the sedative or would a vet need to do it? i'm not sure how i'd schedule a vet visit AND a trip to the airport, they're in the opposite direction. how long is the longest one that is still safe for them, that i could give them? and finally, do their ears need to pop like ours do?

i'm about an hour and 20 minutes from the nearest airport and then i'm sure id need to get there early, so all in all they may be traveling/stressing for about 10 hours or so. delta airline lets small animals on board, obviously i'd NEVER check them with cargo.

OR

i could try to drive them out very slowly.....taking my time and stopping regularly even for a day or two or three if need be and not driving for more then 4 hours at a time, but that would be long term ongoing stress. i could practice by trying to get them used to the car starting now, if i plan on leaving in approx 2 months.

in a way i wonder about flying, thinking it could mean instant death, or just hurry up and get it over with having all my little bag of bunny emergency stuff ready to implement upon landing.

what would you do? fly or drive....i have no set schedule, just waiting for it to cool off before trying.