Strange Tales from the Yard

It may have been one of the strangest things we've ever found in the yard. It was a Saturday morning and it was still shady and cool, but with a hot, almost summery day on tap. I was bent over, kneeling in the dirt, as is my custom, with my hands in the iris beds, pulling leaves, doing some spring clean-up.

That's when my husband, who was raking nearby, walked past me and tossed something white and fluffy at me. "Must have been some kind of wild party in the yard last night," he said; "Looks like somebody has lost a tail!"

We didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Now, while it looked white and fluffy and possibly could have been a tail, it may also have been just a piece of fuzz that somebody left in the yard, bunny or no.

When bunnies are making their nests, they pull out pieces of their floof, or "pluff," just like this one, to line them in silky softness. It's also possible somebody lost a bit of floof in a yard skirmish. The fluff is white with a bit of gray, and soft and clean, and bears no evidence of harm or foul play.

Rest assured that we appear to be missing no yard rabbits, and everybunny who has showed up present and accounted for has done so WITH tail. And yes, of course, we checked!

And so we took the bit of fuzz and everybody examined it with great interest. Daisy the Hedgehog, that fashion maven, even tried it on. Might it be a tail? A wig? A fur coat? In the end, with that little gray stripe over her face, she might have looked just a little bit like Cruella De Vil!

We are not sure what to do with the bit of fluff now. I will probably keep it as an implement for future photo shoots. (Yes, I'm peculiar like that.) And if anybunny out there in the yard should be missing a tail, or a bit of floof, please report to the Lost and Found area and claim it, thanks!

The tune to accompany this strange tale (tail?) is a song about another strange tale: Cream, with Tales of Brave Ulysses.