Burial for Jack

Well - it's been a long week, and I was hoping to take the kids swimming yesterday to both cool off from the 90+ degree heat and to relax from everything that's been going on around here. Instead, we had a crisis in which the pet rabbit (Jack) somehow got out of his cage (I suspect it didn't get latched properly after Aaron feed and watered him, but we'll never know). Our dog Jasmine was outside and found Jack first and did some damage.

We rushed Jack to the vet, but before they could even start to treat him for the severe shock he was in and do a little damage control, Jack died. This may sound terrible, but if he was going to die, I am glad he died BEFORE they started treating him and running up a bill. As it was, they didn't charge me for the emergency visit and we just put Jack in a box and brought him back home for a little burial service. One of my projects today will be to carve his name into the "headstone" (a big flat rock).

Tim is out with the scouts this morning doing a 20 mile bike ride, but he said if he has any energy at all left this afternoon, we'll take the kids swimming then.