To Mark a Grave

Eeesh! Three months have gone by and we haven't made one post. Well, you can't entirely blame us; we were very discouraged when we learned it was impossible to put a video on our own blog. Really, it does irk us.

So until Blogger, or whoever is in charge of videos being put on the blog, decides to make it simpler, faster, easier and all around better to put a video on a video-based blog, we will continue mini-posts about life (and death) in general.

For example! Recently, we lost a dear friend of ours... Lulu, the bunny. Here's the story:

She got out of her cage somehow and we couldn't catch her, so we decided to let her go free since she wasn't a very happy bunny in her cage. Days passed and something strange happened... she didn't leave the area. She would hang out the backyard under the tree in the shade or under the bushes just chillin.' She would occasionally be seen in the neighbors' yards or across the street, but never more than a half-block away. So we figure, 'Hey, we might as well keep feeding her.' So we put food in her cage in the garage and left it open for her to come and go as she pleased. Sometimes at night, she would return to her cage to sleep, then leave early in the morning before anyone would see her there.

All in all, she was just a much happier bunny. Ears up, hopping around, and not even overweight anymore. She got plenty of exercise running from our little brother. She ended up being free for a total of two or so months... until it happened. Our dad was walking around the yard and he saw Lulu, just sitting on the lawn. He went over to her to pick her up, which usually fails due to her hopping away, but this time, she just sat there and let herself be picked up. When examined, we came to the conclusion that she was sick. She looked scrawny, tired, and just terrible in general. She might have eaten something that did not agree with her. Plus, she was sort of at the end of her lifespan - about 5 years.

So we put her back in the cage to rest for a while until she got better. Unfortunately, during the night she passed in her sleep - peacefully and with the memory of being a free bunny. So the next day, Audrey buried her in a nicely decorated box in the backyard next to the rat, Molly, who passed last November (10th to be exact) due to a tumor growing on her right side below the armpit.

ANYWAYS, we needed to mark the graves of our dearly beloved Bun-bun and Momo. So we went to the crap store (craft store) to find a way to mark it using our IMAGINATION. We then came across a garden stepping stone kit, made with cement, an octagonal mold, and glass tile mosaic pieces. We thought this a great idea, so we took it home and made it pretty with two glass flowers and the engravings, "Molly & Lulu."

We highly suggest this for any pet-lover who has recently lost a dear friend. It is relatively inexpensive, very easy to do, and fun to make! You can use your creativity to the max, decorating it with all sorts of designs and objects. And in two days, it will be ready to set on your much-loved pets' graves. So instead of buying a billion-dollar grave stone, or forgetting where you buried them and digging them up by mistake... buy a garden cement stepping stone kit and make one yourself!

Sincerely,
Audrey, Emily, Lucy, and Luna