Friday – 27/12/2014 – It's Visit the Zoo Day

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  • #824405
    Anonymous
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    Good Evening all and Good Morning MZ,

    This Caterday, we have a special day because It’s Visit the Zoo Day! Unless I with my great niece and nephew, I don’t always remember our fellow creatures. But they remind us how we must save the habitat to protect and let them flourish on Mother Earth.

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    A trio of Caracal kits

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    an extreme rare Clouded Leopard kit

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    1 day old giraffe

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    A pair of Red Pandas born in New Zealand

    After a relaxing trip to our local animal park then we can go home and Make Snowflakes!

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    And our ever recycled treat – It’s National Fruitcake Day! My Aunt always made a delicious [German] Stollen. I never liked the soggy mess I’ve known as Fruitcake but having said that –
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    And after a busy day, I go to sleepy in anticipation of all to celebrate this Caterday!

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    Have a happy
    PG

    #824408
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
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    G’morning PG, love the pictures!

    #824409
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    https://gma.yahoo.com/meet-zeb-adorably-ugly-one-eyed-four-toothed-185907624–abc-news-pets.html
    Awwwww reminds me of my Red ? Tissues needed just reading the comments.

    http://news.yahoo.com/video/man-accidentally-sells-girlfriends-cat-115904661.html
    Can’t read this here but really how does one ‘accidentally sell’ your girlfriend’s cat…

    #824410
    jcat
    Participant

    Hi, Deb, if it’s the story I’m thinking of (can see video but not get sound), he sold their couch but didn’t realise that the cat was hiding inside the couch. I have some sympathy as when my ancient couch got a hole in the seat, the foster kittens used to disappear down there and I had no idea where in heaven they had got to until I discovered the hole in the couch one day… and saw their little faces peering up at me from the frame…

    #824411
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    Morning Jane 🙂 I hope that was the story, can’t imagine accidently selling one’s cat. So how is life treating you today?

    #824412
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    Have been browsing thru Amazon.com looking for books for Ms. Rebecca, I know she has a ‘silly’ streak and loves to tell jokes of all kinds…her 6th birthday is coming up in January so now is a good time.

    #824413
    AZDEBRA 5/27 & crew
    Participant

    This is one of the books I am considering 🙂

    Who says princesses don’t wear black? When trouble raises its blue monster head, Princess Magnolia ditches her flouncy dresses and becomes the Princess in Black!

    Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when . . . Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue monster is threatening the goats! Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret —she’s also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her! Can the princess sneak away, transform into her alter ego, and defeat the monster before the nosy duchess discovers her secret? From award-winning writing team of Shannon and Dean Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham, here is the first in a humorous and action-packed chapter book series for young readers who like their princesses not only prim and perfect, but also dressed in black.

    The Princess in Black Hardcover – October 14, 2014
    by Shannon Hale (Author), Dean Hale (Author), LeUyen Pham (Illustrator) & 0 more

    #824417
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    Happy Caturday all – yay, a trip to the zoo! I haven’t been to one in a long time, thank you for the pictures, PG. Not much of a fruitcake fan. Cake, yes, fruit, yes, but together, not so much.
    Zeb looks very happy in his new home. I hope he has many years of happiness. After all, 12 isn’t that old.
    Looks like a fun book for Rebecca, Deb. 🙂

    #824423
    ecbrown
    Participant

    Zoo? Did someone say zoo? I love the zoo! Especially the big cats. We’re lucky enough to live in a city with a fabulous zoo and we have a membership that we put to good use.

    Loved Zebs story. Glad some folks enjoy adopting older cats.

    #824424
    AV
    Participant

    Morning all, Good Saturday! …. headed out soon to collect Dau’s BF from the airport, then to the beach for lunch …. have a great day all!!

    #824425
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    ECB, I thought of you when I saw the zoo today! Love hearing about it when you go.
    Oh, the beach, it sounds great – have a wonderful time AV!

    #824426
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    {{{Waves}}},

    Zeb does looks so happy in his new home. When I volunteered at the Denver Animal Shelter I remembered so many older cats passed up for younger ones re: kittens. AV-it’s going to be 15F/-9C today and most nights it won’t even get above -1f/-18c. The beach sounds so, so good right now. I’m counting the days (23) when I go to visit a friend in Jacksonville. Miss Gaea knows it freezing and she can’t go outside. By tomorrow, she will be so cranky. 😎

    I, too, only saw the video without sound but I can understand how the kitten got caught in the sofa. My kittehs tore a hole in the boxspring lining and I searched high and low until I noticed that it was sagging. I was in an absolute panic.

    We are lounging around, watching movies and napping. Gonna have to ride the stationary bike this afternoon. Are you going to a spinning class, KJ?

    Have a happy ~
    PG

    #824427
    ecbrown
    Participant

    Show and Tell time! My favorite part of a walk in the woods is all the interesting moss, lichen and fungi. Here are some favorite pics from yesterday…



    Here are the boys at a local fishing spot we visited today. Thought te setting was very pretty…

    Also I finally saw a fox squirrel today. I’d heard they were visible near moms lake place but hadn’t seen one yet, no photo but here’s a link…

    http://www.fltws.org/species-spotlight/2014/3/26/species-spotlight-fox-squirrel

    Nice time at the lake but glad to be home. I’m such a homebody!

    #824429
    Kittyzee
    Participant

    ECB, love the photos from above of the fungi! I am fascinated by unusual types of plants and flowers. In the bottom plant pic the greyish green spidery looking plants look like “air plants”, don’t know the latin name of them, but they just need misting, no soil. I have lots of plants like that including orchids that grow from *trash* in a tree crotch or in between some rocks where debris has collected. If I lived in Florida, I would have staghorn ferns attached to trees and a green house room. I’m trying to get hubby to let me enclose part of the front porch so I can have my plants out there…it’s just to hot and dry here inside in the winter to grow those types, even though I’ve tried 😉 Thanks for sharing….makes me long for spring and digging in the dirt again!

    #824430
    ecbrown
    Participant

    I like plants too, KZ. Though I’ve never kept many myself, botany was my favorite branch of science. A green thumb does run in my family though. My mom used to have a greenhouse and grow orchids. I’m just happy if I can plant a few herbs these days. :).

    #824431
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    Oooh PG, too cold by you. No wonder you are counting the days till a visit to Florida!
    Thanks for the pics, ECB. I like seeing that kind of stuff too. Sometimes there are some good mushroom growths around my yard in the summer. Looks like a nice fishing hole too!

    #824432
    katzenjammer
    Participant

    Evening ECB *sleepily yawns then waves*
    Just arose from day of total rest as what I do for my Sabbath (then wonder why I can’t get to bed L8R!)
    PG, tkss for trip to zoo, never been to one, no family outings for us, will stop there. Love the caracals, sooo cute, but not one’s pettable house kits I presume LOL. Also love the beautiful clouded leopard, her colouring and spots!!! And the giraffe and the pandas! And the “men/fruitcake/nuts” early C19 lady – LOL. I can’t tolerate those dyed red/green dried cherries that customarily find their way into fruitcakes, just thinking of them makes me want to to aack!
    And tks ECB for “sharing” your field trip with us! When I read “fox squirrel” at first I thought of some inter-species goings on, but reading url am now better informed. 😉
    When I was older I did go to our Biodome and saw like Amazon forest birds, penguins, bats, Canadian wildlife in created natural habitats, not quite the same as seeing wildlife outdoors, but interesting nonetheless. Would be nice if animals could remain in natural habitats, but with poaching and much unfluffiness going on at least this way threatened species can potentially be saved.
    Speaking of interesting botany, “rumour has it” that in a certain park in Vancouver, BC, way the other side of Canada, there are “edible” mushrooms of the trippy sort – if one “knows their shrooms”. Sometimes encounter huge mushrooms growing naturally beside trees in my n’hood and wonder what would happen if I ate one. Probably not the “Alice in Wonderland” experience. And probably Dorry would miss me. Purrhaps. 😉

    #824433
    Kittyzee
    Participant

    KJ, funny you should talk about finding mushrooms of the trippy sort! We *hunt*, meaning go looking for mushrooms in this area of the states, in early spring, usually around corn planting time. We head to the woods with bags, and we are looking for morels. They are edible mushrooms and are a delicacy and the girls and I and hubby too love looking for them. He is usually busy planting corn and relies on me to go on the hunt. We wash them well, soak them in salt water (to kill any insects inside) and then roll them in flour and fry in butter. My parents always hunted them and we do this annually in the spring, have been hunting mushrooms since I could walk.

    #824434
    ecbrown
    Participant

    Hi, KJ! Glad you got some rest. What a great tradition, KZ. On our walk through the woods we ommented that we wished we knew if any of the mushrooms were edible.

    #824435
    JerseyJoan
    Moderator

    Hi KJ, glad you had a restful sabbath. I’ve never seen a fox squirrel either.
    Hunting mushrooms sounds fun!

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