A Scary and Sad Warning!

To all our friends,

Our dear friend Asta had a scare when most of the pictures disappeared from her blog (almost two years worth!) You can read about what happened here! One of the charming things about Asta and her mom are the lovely pictures they share with us on their blog. When all of their hard work disappeared, Asta's mom was ready to give up and quit blogging. We and a bunch of their friends wrote comments begging them to stay. They listened and calmed down and are looking forward to the future. But, they have only their memories of the pictures that were lost.

We are so glad that they've decided to stick around, because the blogosphere wouldn't be the same without Asta and her wonderfully sophisticated New York adventures.

We just wanted to post this warning, in case any of you who are on Blogger like us are nearing your photo storage capacity (the percentage that shows on the bottom of the screen when you upload a picture.) Ours is at 8%, so we guess we're okay for quite awhile!

Anyway,

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

TO THE

U.S.A !

Odd Looking Bunnies

Deb & Freckles:

We were taking a walk the other day down by the creek and happened to pass by these odd looking bunnies out for a swim. Look ma, no ears!

Time to Go

Deb:

Freckles and Cadbury jumped inside the ottoman when I took off the lid on one side. They explored a bit and then jumped out.

They were having such fun together that I hated to be the bearer of bad news. It was time for Cadbury to head for home. Luckily he didn't have much to pack. We drove him to the airport and waved goodbye as he flew away to his home in Texas.

It's a Volcano!

Freckles:

The cave in the missing bush was a lot of fun to explore and I was so happy that Cadbury had helped me to find it! We rested and ate some lettuce, exhausted from our adventure so far. While we munched, Cadbury came up with another great idea.

"Mmmf, I think we should check out your new boulder," he said.

"Crunch, sounds like a good idea," I replied.

And we did.

Just as we arrived at the side of the boulder, the high-voiced one lifted the top right off of it and flipped it over. We quickly jumped up to see what it looked like. Hmmmm, it looks somewhat like a volcano!

After we'd jumped down, the high-voiced one took the whole top off! We jumped again--this time into the very bowl of the volcano itself!

Exploration

Deb:

Freckles and Cadbury explored the living room and found the old coffee table which I had not yet taken to the Goodwill. The huge drawer in the table held numerous pictures of holidays, birthdays, graduations, etc. and I hadn't had time to go through them yet. Freckles quickly discovered that the drawer was missing (she doesn't miss a thing!) I had removed the drawer in order to separate the pictures into categories. The hole it left looked like a giant cave to Freckles and Cadbury and the started to explore it!

Cadbury's Idea

Freckles:

Cadbury had whispered to me the most amazing news! He had seen something that might be my missing bush!

I couldn't wait to find out, so we set off to explore in the direction he'd indicated. Sure enough, there it sat off in a corner -- my missing bush. However, I quickly realized that something was missing from the middle of my missing bush!

Freckles and Cadbury

Deb:

What a sweet bun Cadbury is! He and Freckles spent a good part of his visit catching up on all the news Cadbury was able to bring. They spent a lot of time just sitting nose to nose gossiping.

Freckles did take some time out to show him her big computer box home and he ran in and out and all around it. Then, he jumped on top. What fun they had together.