zooomerang

i recently attended the annual black tie affair at the zoo. even the camels wore bow-ties. we ate fantastic food from local restaurants, and danced the night away. it was entirely exciting seeing people not only out of their uniforms but so dressed up. i wish i took more pictures, but was enjoying myself too much to remember to pull out my camera.

heat wave

it got so hot, we sheared the sheep earlier than planned. chris did droopy, and i did lambert. (lambert looks better, haha.) and i got to leave a poof on the end of lambert's tail. it looks so cute!


before


during


after...so pretty! (the sheep were cooler, and we were sweatier)

spring is in the air

it feels a lot like summer, though, with the warm weather we've been having. i am still getting used to the ALL DAY RAINSTORMS baltimore has to offer. in colorado, if the thin air manages to rain, it's for an hour, tops. but here, with the ocean so close by and what not, it will rain all day long, and since i work outside, i come home looking like i fell in the farmyard pond.

but i digress...i really just want everyone to see pictures of the prairie dog babies and the sitatunga!



p. dog babies are adorable. they act just like adults, but talk in higher voices. and jahari is such a handsome sitatunga, and he will come inside when called in return for apple pieces. joanie makes this hilarious face. as if i can take something as cute as her seriously when she shoots me a 'drop dead' look.

getting back into the blogging habit

me and my favorite cows. moo. brenna loves chin scratches more than anything, and bailey likes to lick my pants. i think i have been working in the farmyard so long now that my pants have absorbed the taste of hay. they are so cute. the picture was taken for a slideshow to be shown on the night of zoomerang, our zoo's annual fundraising gala.

also, our new baby elephant is out and about for the public to see. samson is adorable.
see?

baby elephant!!! plus: the circus! plus: bella training!

congrats to the elephant staff at the zoo for their new baby! felix gave birth to her 2nd calf wednesday night, a 290 pound baby boy! he is super cute from the pictures i have seen!! i was, of course, on my weekend when he was born, so i am so so so excited to get to work tomorrow to hear all about it. i love my job. (have i mentioned that?)



plus, tomorrow i get to go behind the scenes at the barnum & bailey and ringling
bros. circus that's in town for the next couple weeks. we will get to see how they travel with the animals, and meet a few of the trainers that work with the tigers, llamas, dogs, and elephants. i'm so excited, i love learning about and seeing different kinds of training.

**and an update on my bella training: my favorite little hog is doing awesome learning how to station. i ask her to go to her mat, and she has been doing it consistantly, so now i am making her pause on the mat before releasing her with the bridge (whistle) and giving her her reward. she held still for three seconds the other day while staring at me the whole time. yay, bella! once she is able to hold for an extended period of time, i will put the scale in there so eventually i can weigh her.

decorating

i am in the middle of trying to decorate my room, and find myself constantly drawing a blank on where to begin. i have heard it's a good idea to look at a lot of pictures you like, and see what they have in common to get an idea of your decorating tastes. but i think i have the most random tastes ever. i like the clean simple lines of modern style. but love lots of color. and things that don't really match but go together anyway. and bold prints. and now i have no idea how to mush all this together into a lovely room i will love sitting in. here's some of my favorite pictures, maybe someone will have better ideas than me:

i wish i was a giant...

i would play with people like this all day! and i hope their faces would be as absolutely hilarious as i did so! enjoy:

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