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Jul. 24th, 2011
First off, say what you will about Russell Brand, but this tribute to Amy Winehouse is touching and beautifully written.
And for anyone who thought that last video of my mom's cats was loud, meet Simon:
And for anyone who thought that last video of my mom's cats was loud, meet Simon:
Due to Wyatt (the youngest cat) being scared of Simon when my mom first got him, he spent all of his time downstairs to avoid him. However, the litter was upstairs. To try to salvage the situation, my mom put a litter box in the downstairs bathroom specifically for Wyatt. Unsurprisingly, he was not the only one to use it.
Even now that Simon has been moved out to the game room over the garage, the cats still like using the litter box downstairs. But my parents have gotten a bit tired of having to move the bathroom around their tiny bathroom, so my mom decided they'd put it in the laundry room off the kitchen.
They didn't want to keep the laundry room door open all the time, so my dad decided to put a cat door in it. It was just a square hole in the door until my dad went to my mom, "Hey, I've got an idea ..."
My mom still has to paint whiskers on it.
Even now that Simon has been moved out to the game room over the garage, the cats still like using the litter box downstairs. But my parents have gotten a bit tired of having to move the bathroom around their tiny bathroom, so my mom decided they'd put it in the laundry room off the kitchen.
They didn't want to keep the laundry room door open all the time, so my dad decided to put a cat door in it. It was just a square hole in the door until my dad went to my mom, "Hey, I've got an idea ..."
My mom still has to paint whiskers on it.
Field day!
Jul. 24th, 2011 11:34 pmSo the other day I talked my mom -- not like it's hard -- into going with me today to Claws and Paws, which is a zoo that I didn't even know was only about a half-hour from here until Mom picked me up today. (Seriously, I haven't gone since grade school, and it seemed like such a long trip back then.)
It's not a big zoo, mind you, but the size is a plus when it comes to seeing the animals, and it's in the woods so even though it was raining half the time we were there we barely felt a raindrop.
The best part was when we got out of the car and there was a loud noise coming from the zoo. I thought it sounded like some zoo rep giving a presentation over a speaker system or those piped-out animal noises you hear at amusement park rides or something. Then my mom, who goes to the zoo all the time, says, "No, that's the lion."
Yeah, apparently one of their two lions will NOT shut up. He roared half of the time we were there -- like, a genuine Hollywood lion roar -- and because the park is small you could always hear him. (My mom said that's the quietest he's ever been, and it was the first time she'd ever been there that he hadn't done it in front of her.) We also kept hearing roars from the general direction of the jaguar and black bears -- hard to tell which it was, quite frankly, although my mom swore it had to be the jaguar -- and the New Zealand singing dogs howled non-stop for an hour. You'd think it'd be annoying, but it was actually kind of nice, considering what you usually hear at zoos on Sundays is crowds of small children shouting and screaming and you rarely hear any of the animals make any noise. Here, it was the opposite -- lots of animals making noise, most of the kids being quiet and well-behaved.
Also, the lemurs had babies. TINY LEMURS OMG. :D
It's not a big zoo, mind you, but the size is a plus when it comes to seeing the animals, and it's in the woods so even though it was raining half the time we were there we barely felt a raindrop.
The best part was when we got out of the car and there was a loud noise coming from the zoo. I thought it sounded like some zoo rep giving a presentation over a speaker system or those piped-out animal noises you hear at amusement park rides or something. Then my mom, who goes to the zoo all the time, says, "No, that's the lion."
Yeah, apparently one of their two lions will NOT shut up. He roared half of the time we were there -- like, a genuine Hollywood lion roar -- and because the park is small you could always hear him. (My mom said that's the quietest he's ever been, and it was the first time she'd ever been there that he hadn't done it in front of her.) We also kept hearing roars from the general direction of the jaguar and black bears -- hard to tell which it was, quite frankly, although my mom swore it had to be the jaguar -- and the New Zealand singing dogs howled non-stop for an hour. You'd think it'd be annoying, but it was actually kind of nice, considering what you usually hear at zoos on Sundays is crowds of small children shouting and screaming and you rarely hear any of the animals make any noise. Here, it was the opposite -- lots of animals making noise, most of the kids being quiet and well-behaved.
Also, the lemurs had babies. TINY LEMURS OMG. :D