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yamamanama3 days until the vernal equinox
But it's as cold as it always was. I don't even see crocuses sprouting. I want to say the last few days were winter's last hurrah, but I doubt that's true at all.
This, friends, Romans, and countrymen, might be the singular greatest thing ever put to lined paper.
You know, back in 2006, I think omg zombies! would get an entry all to itself, instead of being shoehorned into a wildlife center or museum or concert entry. There'd be less profanity too.
The angry mayfly is saying something like "fuckin' lady bug."
I'd look for a better version but Google seems to have a lot of trouble searching Instagram. That and I rotated it.
I took an art class with Stephanie once and she said that giraffes use those knobs to communicate telepathically.
The snowy owl is finally gone, hurrah. I hope she takes a big shit on the Arctic for all of us in New England. It's sad to see her go, though.
Replacing her is a rather mangled red-shouldered hawk and a muskrat. Muskrats stink according to Ian. I didn't know we had muskrats here, I thought they were old world animals. The hawk responds to food but not to being clamped in the foot. Oh, he can pull his feet back but that's a reflex, and the impulses don't travel all the way to the spinal column. He'll be looked at tomorrow. So, reptiles and birds don't have an epiglottal flap to block the lungs when they're swallowing, it's just a glottis.
It was kind of hard because there was a large group of people being trained in animal husbandry.
We go through these cycles of "lots of releases" followed by what's left: a batch of animals that aren't doing so well.
Teddy (the dog) was standing up on things and trying to sneak into the reptile room. The lock was broken so Nina had to take the knob to a locksmith, so I had to fiddle with the thing the doorknob is designed to pull. That's easier done from the outside. I'm like "Waffle, go get help!" and in the distance "What's that, Waffle? Yama's trapped in the reptile room?" This came back to haunt me later when I spilled water on my leg and wanted to hang out with the reptiles and their heater and dry off.
Kaz says that muskrats must be cute if they have a song named after them. I hope this means she thinks cicadas are cute and not that she finds it utterly inconceivable that there'd be a song named after a cicada.
She described them as looking like a cross between a rat and a beaver.
After looking at the hawk, I was doing the dishes and I saw the microwave's clock and was like "shit, it's 2:06? Wait a minute, that doesn't seem right."
The woman with the scorpion tattoo came back with her chinchilla. They're very soft and this one felt rather skinny.
Emily was around. I don't think I mentioned her before. She helped me construct a rock wall in the raccoon room a long time ago, and she shows up occasionally, and I think I saw her at the Night of a Thousand Faces. Perhaps I should paint her.
a woman here for a tour said she saw a really amazing blue butterfly in Aruba because I was talking about the difference between poisonous and venomous. I've never seen one that's blue before, but I was saying that monarchs are warning predators that they' taste disgusting and will cause them to be sick and viceroys pretend to be monarchs, and her kid/the kid with her is like "what about blue butterflies?" I think Sara Longwings might be poisonous.
This happened at 2:06, when I realized the clock was stopped.
Two baby foxes were scheduled to arrive at 2:06, but unfortunately I left at 2:06 so I wasn't able to see this. As of 2:06, there's nothing about it on their twitter feed.
There's a saying that if you give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself. Too bad Blogger isn't providing the scaffold.
I think that if Aries' burning questions theme will be "Baten Kaitos," Taurus and Gemini will have the theme of "asking things two months after they cease to be relevant."
burning question: Who dropped a leshach halcyon in the weather machine?
But it's as cold as it always was. I don't even see crocuses sprouting. I want to say the last few days were winter's last hurrah, but I doubt that's true at all.
This, friends, Romans, and countrymen, might be the singular greatest thing ever put to lined paper.
You know, back in 2006, I think omg zombies! would get an entry all to itself, instead of being shoehorned into a wildlife center or museum or concert entry. There'd be less profanity too.
The angry mayfly is saying something like "fuckin' lady bug."
I'd look for a better version but Google seems to have a lot of trouble searching Instagram. That and I rotated it.
I took an art class with Stephanie once and she said that giraffes use those knobs to communicate telepathically.
The snowy owl is finally gone, hurrah. I hope she takes a big shit on the Arctic for all of us in New England. It's sad to see her go, though.
Replacing her is a rather mangled red-shouldered hawk and a muskrat. Muskrats stink according to Ian. I didn't know we had muskrats here, I thought they were old world animals. The hawk responds to food but not to being clamped in the foot. Oh, he can pull his feet back but that's a reflex, and the impulses don't travel all the way to the spinal column. He'll be looked at tomorrow. So, reptiles and birds don't have an epiglottal flap to block the lungs when they're swallowing, it's just a glottis.
It was kind of hard because there was a large group of people being trained in animal husbandry.
We go through these cycles of "lots of releases" followed by what's left: a batch of animals that aren't doing so well.
Teddy (the dog) was standing up on things and trying to sneak into the reptile room. The lock was broken so Nina had to take the knob to a locksmith, so I had to fiddle with the thing the doorknob is designed to pull. That's easier done from the outside. I'm like "Waffle, go get help!" and in the distance "What's that, Waffle? Yama's trapped in the reptile room?" This came back to haunt me later when I spilled water on my leg and wanted to hang out with the reptiles and their heater and dry off.
Kaz says that muskrats must be cute if they have a song named after them. I hope this means she thinks cicadas are cute and not that she finds it utterly inconceivable that there'd be a song named after a cicada.
She described them as looking like a cross between a rat and a beaver.
After looking at the hawk, I was doing the dishes and I saw the microwave's clock and was like "shit, it's 2:06? Wait a minute, that doesn't seem right."
The woman with the scorpion tattoo came back with her chinchilla. They're very soft and this one felt rather skinny.
Emily was around. I don't think I mentioned her before. She helped me construct a rock wall in the raccoon room a long time ago, and she shows up occasionally, and I think I saw her at the Night of a Thousand Faces. Perhaps I should paint her.
a woman here for a tour said she saw a really amazing blue butterfly in Aruba because I was talking about the difference between poisonous and venomous. I've never seen one that's blue before, but I was saying that monarchs are warning predators that they' taste disgusting and will cause them to be sick and viceroys pretend to be monarchs, and her kid/the kid with her is like "what about blue butterflies?" I think Sara Longwings might be poisonous.
This happened at 2:06, when I realized the clock was stopped.
Two baby foxes were scheduled to arrive at 2:06, but unfortunately I left at 2:06 so I wasn't able to see this. As of 2:06, there's nothing about it on their twitter feed.
There's a saying that if you give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself. Too bad Blogger isn't providing the scaffold.
I think that if Aries' burning questions theme will be "Baten Kaitos," Taurus and Gemini will have the theme of "asking things two months after they cease to be relevant."
burning question: Who dropped a leshach halcyon in the weather machine?
