01-29-2016, 10:16 AM
Sam was a wild field rabbit's newborn baby who was orphaned because his mother was run over by mistake. My farmer husband ask me if I would raise him. I used a baby doll bottle and he loved the warm milk. He grew into a larger baby bottle, rabbit pellet food and fresh greens fast. He loved me as his mom and he was my baby boy. We moved him outside to a wire and wood rabbit house with a long run. He was a big boy now and ate on his own. He liked to come back into the house with me. He would often sit on the top of my upright piano whIle I played the piano. He loved piano and would sit very quietly for a long time. One day I saw movement on top of the piano. Sam was swaying to the Chopin selection I was playing he was in time with the metronome moving back and forth and the same direction as the metronome . I would adjust the metronome to a faster tempo and he would adjust in perfect time. I was shocked. He would stop to grind his teeth in the very romantic sections and start swaying again when the piano music became less romantic. I do have a newspaper clipping of him in a Santa hat for our church ad. My best friend came over to see him perform and decided to use him for our church publicity ad. I wondered how she would keep Sam still in the studio for his picture. She brought out a music box and Sam was very still listening while the photograph was made. I will post the picture of Sam when I figure out how. Sandy B
