Yes, folks, today is my birthday!  Don’t get excited, I’m in a funk.  A genuine, blue funk!

I’m razzled at my next door neighbor!  Not my wonderful, book swap going, nice, friendly, homeschooling, across-the-street neighbor.  My next-door neighbor who, although we have lived next to them for 18 years, we have spoken to… brace yourselves… twice.

I don’t think they’re malicious, just very introverted.  But yesterday’s act makes me wonder.

Our tree that shades our rabbit cages hangs over into their yard.  I didn’t consider this to be a big deal since lots of their trees stick over into our yard.  It’s just a thing, we have lots of trees that are kinda right at the fence line.  And being trees, they have no repect for which side of the fence they put their roots down on and which side of the fence they hang their branches over.  I understand that about trees.

Apparently the neighbor doesn’t get trees the way I do.  Yesterday, he cut down all the branches of our tree that hang over on his side of the fence.

You got it, my rabbits are now having a hard time finding a shady spot.  They are safe from the noonday sun and most of the afternoon sun, but the morning sun is right on ‘em.

I’m not sure, but Hubs might be able to position the cages so as to get all day shade.  But this morning when I went out to feed them, the older set were in full sun.  I’m glad I was able to get to them early. (I always go out to feed at 8 a.m.)  If they’d had to sit there for another couple of hours it would have killed them.  At least the one in the cage on the eastern end of the unit, which just happens to be Annabelle, the sweetest of the three older rabbits.

Now here’s where it gets all personal and begins to ruin my birthday.  Hubs and the two eldest boys were already gone for the day.  That left me with Dusty (Rowdy was still asleep, don’t ask why I didn’t wake him, I didn’t think of it).

Now, Dusty is perfectly capable, but this is a two person job.  Guess who the other person was.  Here are some hints.

• You love her like a sister.
• She’s really miffed right now.
• Today’s her birthday for cryin’ out loud!
• She threw her back out while moving rabbit cages at 8 a.m.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.  The neightbor has every right to cut those branches.  I shouldn’t have been relying on shade that “his” branches were providing, I should get over it.

I will.

But, man, my back hurts.

…and all on my birthday!!!

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