What is it with this week?!
It must be the driving to and from the zoo twice a day that has fritzed out any and all able bodied brain cells. *sigh* It ends up being around 18 miles one direction, so I'm logging in over 72 miles that I normally don't drive, plus traffic. I don't like traffic. Guess I'm spoiled. Even when I worked I had odd hours (11 PM-7 shift, 5 AM-1:30, and then 6:30 AM-3) and didn't have to deal with traffic.
But I did get to look at a few of the new zoo babies today. There was the Diana Guenon monkey baby, plus the three adults. I got a quick glance at the lion cubs, but they were resting and all you could see were the ears. They are a lot bigger than the picture I found, weighing in around forty pounds. Mom lion pinned her gaze on me--creepy scary--I know they're well fed, but . . . yeah, that creepy. The penguins were swimming. And the flamingo babies look like big fat grey/white powderpuffs.
I've been to the zoo a lot as we have a season pass, so my goal was to check everything out after I dropped the kiddo off at zoo camp. I hoofed it around the zoo getting my daily walk in before heading back to the car. I was sweating from my shins, my scalp, and backs of my knees. My shirt had back and boobage sweat marks. Yeah, not pretty. When I got into the car the temperature registered 90 degrees--at 9:45 in the morning. They expect it to get over a hundred today with a heat index between 113-115, which means drink lots of water, don't do much of anything outside, and just chill out.
Now, to sort through the pile of suggestions for my query letter and start improving it . . . again. Next week will be synopsis week, unless I can figure out a way to procrastinate.
Write on!
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7/10/09
7/6/09
Zoo Camp for Kiddo
Blogging late today. I hope all the links work--my Internet kept going up and down when I was looking and linking.
Just dropped the kiddo off at zoo camp. The camp is called Meet the Predators and she'll be occupied M-F, 9-4 pm. This is the first year that they are offering all day camp for the younger crowd. The teenagers have a cool camp that I'd LOVE to do which is zoo keeper boot camp and covers everything from feeding, cleaning, training, etc. As a former pooper-scooper who worked at the local vet clinic all through high school, I could really get into this camp!
The really neat part about the Predator camp is that our zoo has lion cubs about five months old. Hopefully, the kids will be able to get a little more up close and personal than just watching them through the bars. We've had a few of our bears die recently and our polar bear is . . . uhm, . . . being 'used' by another zoo to make babies. If momma polar bear gets preggers, we get dibs on one of the pups. YAY!
Believe it or not, our little zoo is one of the most fertile zoos in the country. Most of the animals are on birth control because there's a whole lotta action going on. We had two baby chimps born in 2008 (both mom's were on BC). I think the last time we had babies was twenty years ago. Our golden-headed Lion Tamarin's churn out a couple of litters a year. We have a two-toed sloth that has one baby a year. Our elephant is the #1 elephant in the country and his sperm is used for AI all over the place. The only problem we've had was with the jaguars. The male mangled the female's paw and it had to be amputated. We traded that male with another zoo for a more docile male. It seems the female at the other zoo was too aggressive, so this is a win-win for both zoos.
Last year, zoo camp was only half-days so I took my computer and hooked up at one of the outdoor shelter areas. When the drive is about an hour round-trip there was no sense in going back home only to turn around in an hour and a half to do it all again. It was really nice. The picnic table overlooked a lake and the Saimang gibbons would do their hooting and calling.
I don't really have a lot of writing to do this week. I DO need to write a decent query and synopsis for MOGG, finish judging a romance contest (five paranormals at 55 pages each--it is time consuming), and get caught up on some of my reading. Oh, yeah, I also need to get back into the exercising thing again. :-(
Along with this, I'm thinking about story #2. In MOGG, no one is really who they claim to be, while in #2 the theme might be what you see isn't always real.
Have fun this summer!
Write on!
Just dropped the kiddo off at zoo camp. The camp is called Meet the Predators and she'll be occupied M-F, 9-4 pm. This is the first year that they are offering all day camp for the younger crowd. The teenagers have a cool camp that I'd LOVE to do which is zoo keeper boot camp and covers everything from feeding, cleaning, training, etc. As a former pooper-scooper who worked at the local vet clinic all through high school, I could really get into this camp!
The really neat part about the Predator camp is that our zoo has lion cubs about five months old. Hopefully, the kids will be able to get a little more up close and personal than just watching them through the bars. We've had a few of our bears die recently and our polar bear is . . . uhm, . . . being 'used' by another zoo to make babies. If momma polar bear gets preggers, we get dibs on one of the pups. YAY!
Believe it or not, our little zoo is one of the most fertile zoos in the country. Most of the animals are on birth control because there's a whole lotta action going on. We had two baby chimps born in 2008 (both mom's were on BC). I think the last time we had babies was twenty years ago. Our golden-headed Lion Tamarin's churn out a couple of litters a year. We have a two-toed sloth that has one baby a year. Our elephant is the #1 elephant in the country and his sperm is used for AI all over the place. The only problem we've had was with the jaguars. The male mangled the female's paw and it had to be amputated. We traded that male with another zoo for a more docile male. It seems the female at the other zoo was too aggressive, so this is a win-win for both zoos.
Last year, zoo camp was only half-days so I took my computer and hooked up at one of the outdoor shelter areas. When the drive is about an hour round-trip there was no sense in going back home only to turn around in an hour and a half to do it all again. It was really nice. The picnic table overlooked a lake and the Saimang gibbons would do their hooting and calling.
I don't really have a lot of writing to do this week. I DO need to write a decent query and synopsis for MOGG, finish judging a romance contest (five paranormals at 55 pages each--it is time consuming), and get caught up on some of my reading. Oh, yeah, I also need to get back into the exercising thing again. :-(
Along with this, I'm thinking about story #2. In MOGG, no one is really who they claim to be, while in #2 the theme might be what you see isn't always real.
Have fun this summer!
Write on!
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