Typically when you turn on the news in this city the breaking news is a shooting in which one or several people died or more political drama as the government here is fairly corrupt. Well on Monday the headline was this: "Baby Elephant Born!" Asali's artificial insemination finally took on the fifth try. She was pregnant for one year, 9 months and 15 days. It was exciting news and of course then everyone plans to make a trip to the zoo soon just to see the baby.
But at 11:10 this morning that happiness was shattered. Apparently the baby stumbled in the enclosure and in an attempt to help it back up the mother accidentally hurt the baby. They tried to save her, but she didn't make it. She didn't even have a name yet.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
A Sad Day at The Zoo
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Plant Update
The top had a good bit of condensation on it so I figured
we should soon see leaves.
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
Rewards At Last
And our balloon flowers that we planted at the end of March
are finally about to actually have flowers on them.
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
These nuts...
Our company goes to Sam's pretty regularly to pick up sodas for our community fridge at work. Recently they came back with these. Needless to say, the whole office is officially addicted. Typically, chocolate covered almonds are just too sweet for my tastes. And I NEVER eat dark chocolate. But these are just right. I like to alternate between bites of really salty chips and a couple of these almonds because I'm a sugar-salt freak. But they are awesome no matter how you eat them.
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