Thank you as always, Annie!!

I consulted my Magic 8 ball about the odds I’ll remember to say this tomorrow and the reply was OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD.

Thank you once again Annie! The family and I enjoy this one and all participate. Alarm is set. Good luck to all!

hearty hare hare to all...

I had a conversation with DH this morning before I remembered. There is a sheet of ice on the deck, stars in the sky and no northern lights. I should have rabbit-rabbited it at 2 AM.

Said it before i rolled lut of bed this morning.

Ha! Magic 8 ball was wrong, I did remember. Let the good luck begin.

Last month turned out well, so why not? I remembered somewhere in the middle of the night.

I did - surprised myself.

We did...we need all the luck we can get at this point!

I did it!!!!

Same here Maire.

Since I put a reminder over my clock radio (a paper with Rabbit written in capital letters) I say it everytime I wake up. I went to bed around 11 and I wasn't sure if it was before midnight or after when I first woke up----I can't see the time, so I said it. And I said it every darn time I woke up, so about 3 times total. I go thru this every month LOL

I was awoken by DH with the traditional ... ’a pinch and a punch first of the month. White rabbits.’ DH always seems to remember before I do. But it’s done gently and followed by a cup of coffee in bed. Sadly, adding ’white rabbits’ magically means the punchee is not allowed to retaliate.

We both said it simultaneously to each other this morning, just hoping that Terry McCullough said it too and that youngkin forgot ;-)

My city’s library just posted this. I’d never heard it before.

"Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!

Hare, Hare, Hare!

Say it when you wake,

To insure a month of luck

And live without a care!"

Happy November! Rabbit Rabbit to you!

Oh no I forgot. What do I do? Hibernate till Dec 1?

dedtired - Thank-you for posting that little ditty. I've never heard of saying Rabbit Rabbit at the beginning of the month until I saw Annie's post way long time ago. I started to say only because Annie told me to do so. It's interesting to see that it's actually a thing.

I remember reading about it in a novel last year. I've been doing it for a number of years as well, thanks to Annie, but reading about the history of it was pretty neat.

I have a sudden urge to reread Updike's Rabbit series.

You say tibbar tibbar which is rabbit rabbit backwards at the end of today before you go to sleep as your last words apparently it is supposed to be the same thing.

The end of today being before midnight tonight

The full story:

Decades ago we went to Hawaii and I, against all better advice, took home a piece of lava off the Big Island which was said to anger Pele and she would bring on all kinds of evil. When I got home, one after the other, bad things were befalling members of my family...broken leg, surgery, etc. So then I started saying "Pele Pele rabbit rabbit" as a way to keep her happy, and it generally seemed to work.

Now, DH has been in the hospital several days and finally came home on 10/31. So I told him to be sure to say rabbit rabbit. He says he did before he started moaning in pain. I, having had only about 4 hours sleep over the last 3 days managed to say "Rabbit rabbit" then remembered Pele and said "Pele Pele" after that, so she wasn't first on the list. Uh Oh. Well, last night she got me back.

Last night, I had a glass of wine (I'm not supposed to be drinking because of my health issues) and managed to fall asleep on the couch. Woke up about 9:30 and went to bed and went right back to sleep. Then at midnight, I wake up to this high-pitched alarm. I run to DH thinking it's his cpap and he's stopped breathing! I get in his room and he's up saying, "What the h@ll is that!" I check the alarm system and it's the waterbug under the refrigerator. I try to stop the alarm and sort of manage.

So then the two of us are in the kitchen trying to look under the fridge to see if anything is wet. We then struggle to figure out how to move the darn thing...pry bars and wood and such. The alarm co. calls us to tell us we have an alarm (thank you so much). We finally move the fridge out (Oy! The dust!) I'm digging around back there and the water bug is completely dry! The alarm went off for no reason! I'm reading the alarm manual and somehow figure out how to do a bypass for the unit on the system and I think I finally managed. Finally, back to bed. After a few hours, I was finally able to get to sleep again. Hooray! We'll call the alarm people today and have them fix it.

As I'm cleaning up the dust behind the fridge at 5:30 this a.m. it dawns on me: Pele was punishing me for not putting her first! Yes, I hear you Pele!

Annie, sorry to hear about DH, glad that he is back home. oh my what an ordeal with the alarm. I hate alarm systems! Take care, get some rest, and Fedex that lava rock back.

The thing about the lava rock is, millions of people have the same lava rocks in their gas grills...are they too suffering from Pele's wrath???

And in case you've never heard of it, there is such a thing as Pele's hair.

https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/nature/peles-hair.htm

@Annie Deighnaugh I remembered at 3 AM when I got up but DH forgot when he got up and we started chatting when he was making coffee....but he said if I had just reminded him as I ALWAYS do he would have said it...sigh.

I am so sorry that you and your DH are still having health problems . There is nothing worse than uncertainty about health...alarms are also terrible !! Sending healing thoughts your way. c