Why I miss having a man around the house

It was another productive day around the house/yard. I got the lawn mowed, some housework and sorting done, and cleared out the weeds from the side garden. Still haven't figured out what I'm going plant there.

Anyway, the title of the post refers to an unfortunate discovery I made in the backyard. A dead young robin, almost full grown. Normally I would have called DH over immediately to deal with it. Instead, I had to pick up the lifeless, limp little body with a shovel, bring it to the corner of the yard, dig a little hole, and bury it. Just awful.

Then, as I set about mowing the rear yard, I was attacking some of the weeds growing at the edge of the deck when a very small bunny hopped out and ran into a little patch of wildflowers growing near the garden. I immediately cut off the mower, terrified that there might have been another under there or something. I finished mowing the rest of the yard as best I could, completely avoiding the area where the little guy had escaped to; I was worried he would hop out in fear and end up.... well I'll say no more. I got most of the yard finished when I went over to check out whether he was still in the little flower patch. He was, so I grabbed some lettuce and tossed it at him. Note to self: all this does is scare him. He hopped out the open gate into the side garden among the stargazer lilies. I go ahead and finish the rest of the yard - the areas I avoided when he was in the flower patch. Then I was ready to tackle the front yard, so I wanted to shush the bunny back into the backyard where he had been hiding originally. It took me like 20 minutes to convince him to come out from under the lilies and hydrangea and around the gate into the backyard again, but he finally did it. He was so frickin' cute - you could have held him in the palm of one hand.

I hope he's one of the lucky ones. He must be the offspring of one of the large bunnies I've seen eating the lettuce out of my garden. I wonder if I should lay a piece of wood down and give the little guy a ramp up to the lettuce for himself.