| "The Reunion" |
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| Shoo-Fly May 9, 1999 |
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| May 9, 1999 Mother's Day |
| She remembered the hustle and bustle of gift giving! After finishing the wonderful breakfast her husband had prepared, she had found herself surrounded by many beautifully wrapped packages in celebration of the day. Her day! Mother's Day! Many wonderful things had been inside those packages, most representing a rabbit in one way, shape or form! |
| But there was one gift that she would come to cherish in a very special way. After she had seen and remarked on what she had thought to be the last of the presents, her husband had placed a small neatly wrapped package into her hands. Upon opening it, much to her delight, she had found it contained the most beautiful rabbit windchime nestled snuggly in white tisue paper. Holding it up to admire it, she noticed that her husband had added a nail to the chimes, giving them the most uniquely beautiful sound! Eager for it to be hung right away, her husband had complied, installing it directly outside the back door just to the right of the porch step where she and Shoo so often sat. Stepping back to admire it again, she thought of how much the rabbit at the top of the windchime resembled the spirit rabbit from her beloved movie "Watership Down"... however this rabbit always represented death to the cottontails of the story, and she and Shoo were still very much alive! Suddenly the chimes tinkled, moved by a gust of cool wind from the north. Such a beautiful sound they made! A magical sound! She had smiled as she thought of all the beautiful summer evenings ahead, as she and her forever friend sat sharing treats, watching their star and listening to the enchanting music of the windchime. The remainder of the morning and early afternoon had passed with phone calls and just the things of the day. At three o'clock p.m. her husband had announced that he was going outside to do some yard work in the front of the house. "Don't worry about dinner", he had told her. He would go out later and bring them something home to eat. With this said, she had decided to go outside herself and wait for Shoo-Fly. Taking her lawn chair from the porch she had moved it to the shade of the apple tree, armed with the catalouge she had taken from the party at her neighbor's house the night before. As she sat in her chair in the shade of the tree she had thought of what a beautiful day it had been. A robin hopped near the garden fence looking for dinner for herself and her young, and a parade of white butterflies danced through the air. "Spring!" she had said aloud breathing in the beautiful scent of the apple blossoms. How she and Shoo had waited for this time! Anticipated it! Hoped for it every day of the long winter that was now surely behind them. She remembered seeing tulips in the store in early March and telling Shoo about them as they sat huddled together near the step in the cold of the evening. The first sign of spring had arrived! "We have almost made it, Shoo!" she had told the little rabbit. "Spring is almost here." And now, as if fullfilling a promise made by the tulips, spring had come! Words of a poem yet to be written played in her mind. "The time looked for had surely come! Robins sang! Spring had begun!" They HAD made it! She smiled as her thoughts turned to the beautiful warm days ahead with her forever cottontail friend. Surely he would be along in a few minutes. . |
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