I wish today could be tomorrow

If my heart has to break yours does too. The rabbit I've been talking about.


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Columbo examining me, on the day we first met.



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Columbo was a big bunny. Here he's sprawled out and you can see, he's more than two of my feet long. And I'm not a small person.



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Foreground: bunny. Background: bunny_hugger.



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Columbo outside, when we learned how well he would take to a harness and leash.



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Columbo reviews and approves of the new hose minder.



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Although he was skeptical of the lawn when he first saw it, he found something he could get behind: taking sticks.



Trivia: The second moonwalk of Apollo 17's mission --- the one which found orange soil --- began with an hourlong journey by lunar rover to the first major sampling stop.
Source: Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of NASA's Lunar Expeditions, William David Compton. NASA SP-4214.


Currently Reading: The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs, Bill Jenkinson. It's such a breathless piece of writing that even the stuff that doesn't seem dubious seems dubious, somehow.