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The Holiday

Happy Thanksgiving from Brer-Rabbit.com! I hope everybody is enjoying this day, regardless if you’re celebrating it or not (I realize not everybody is from the USA. ). I associate Brer Rabbit with Thanksgiving often for a few reasons. The first being that I got the Brer Rabbit doll that turned out to be the Woody to my Andy as a child during a trip to Disneyland a few weeks before the Thanksgiving of 1995. The second reason being how, that very same November, I walked into a Barnes & Noble for the first time in my life, and immediately found a Brer Rabbit book in the Children Section with beautiful illustrations.

Also, now that I think about it, I rode Splash Mountain quite a few times two days before Thanksgiving last year. Always go on that ride before the park closes, folks – they let you ride over and over without getting off.

As for Brer Rabbit, I think it’s pretty safe to say he would be thankful for the brain he was blessed with… and to be surrounded by some rather gullible neighbors.

Site Related

I know, I know – I’m sorry the updates here are few and far between. But I have not forgotten. Never! But the holiday season, like always, is a busy one in a lot of ways. Especially when you consider that I have also been participating in NaNoWriMo this year (almost done!). But behind the scenes, I have been working on concepts for this site that I’m planning on executing before the end of the month.

The main thing to know is that I am planning on reorganizing it a bit. It will still mainly be the same, but I’m going to move things around a bit. I also am planning on a few festive Brer Rabbit related things for the Christmas season — including the site’s very first review of Brer Rabbit related media! I’m really looking forward to it, and I hope you are too.

Black Friday

Believe it or not, even Brer-Rabbit.com has a couple of deals to offer for the Black Friday/Cyber Monday craze.

If you have at all been considering starting up a website, or changing hosts, now is the time to do it. The company I use to host this site, Host Gator, is offering some amazing deals for hosting packages tomorrow. I have always been extremely happy using them as my host. If I have ever had any downtime, I have never been aware of it, it’s that brief. Their customer service is also wonderful – any problems I have ever had has been dealt with immediately by them, and they have always been very helpful. Their rates are also very price efficient, especially considering the deals they will be offering tomorrow. It would take a lot to convince me to leave them, and I cannot recommend them enough.

Anyways, on to the deals!

50% OFF EVERYTHING From 12:00AM CST – 5AM CST

80% OFF EVERYTHING From 5AM – 9AM CST WHILE SUPPLIES LAST (first come, first receive; so definitely don’t miss out!)

From 9AM – 11:59PM CST OR after 80% OFF accounts have sold out, they will continue to offer 50% OFF EVERYTHING

If you decide to purchase a hosting plan through Host Gator, I do get a small commission off every sale I send through here – which means you would be helping to support the continuation of this site. So please consider it! But be sure to use one of the links I’ve provided, or else I won’t receive anything.

Our Store also should be offering some Black Friday prices on the items in it. I, personally, can’t think of a better gift to give than that of Brer Rabbit, myself.

That’s all she wrote. Happy Thanksgiving!!

The past couple of weeks, a frog population has boomed in the pond outside my bedroom window. Some nights, their croaking has been so loud and incessant, they’ve kept me up most of the night. In general, though, I find them rather pleasant to listen to since I rather like frogs.

Whenever they start up, I immediately look to see how my rabbit, Noelle, reacts. Rabbits, I’ve learned, really don’t like loud and/or sudden noises. Can you blame them? Look at the size of those ears. Not only that, but they are prey animals, so it’s probably programmed into them to be wary of any such noise. But despite all this, Noelle seems to completely ignore their ruckus. Maybe she’s just heard them too often at this point for her to really care.

Still, I like to observe her during these times. Rabbits are different from dogs and cats; something about them seems a little more “wild animal” to me, and so I guess this is what causes my interest in how she reacts to animals that really are wild.

But of course, I wouldn’t be writing about this here if I wasn’t also making a connection to Brer Rabbit. You see, there’s a story that explains how the animals came to Earth – Brer Rabbit ticks off Sis Moon, and convinces the other animals to move to Earth. Thinking about it now, I suppose there could have been numerous animals of the same species, but for some reason this story has always left me with the impression that all animals today are supposed to be descended from the critters in these stories. Which means, under these pretenses, that my Noelle would in fact be a relation of Brer Rabbit herself.

Now, in these same past few weeks, I was poking around the blog for The Wren’s Nest, when I happened upon a site that they are linked to: The Moonlit Road. It’s a site dedicated to Southern folklore. Naturally, I went looking for Brer Rabbit.

I came across the story of How Brer Coon Gets His Meat. The story is included with a nice piece of background information which includes how the story originally was published by Joel Chandler Harris under the title "Crazy Sue’s Story." In it, Crazy Sue explains to two children that the reason the frogs in a nearby swamp are making so much noise is because they are "mad wid Mr. Rabbit," and want to drive him out of their swamp. Crazy Sue of course then tells the children the story of why the frogs are so upset with Brer Rabbit. Apparently he tricked them into literally digging themselves into a hole they couldn’t get out of so that Brer Coon might eat them.

So they’re apparently holding a grudge against him over this ‘til this day. I guess I was justified in wondering about the connection between their ruckus and my own rabbit. But there we have it, folks: a feud the likes of the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, and it’s still being waged to this day.

I would be okay if they wouldn’t wage it outside my bedroom window, though.