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I haven't been on here all summer, and I'm not really sure why, so here's a quick recap.
The two muntjacs, the male rhino, and the old zebra mare all died this summer. Easily four of my favorite animals at the zoo, so that was kind of rough. The rhino may have been the worst though because I had to clean up after the destruction that happened to the yard after his passing. I got to work with two new keepers, so hopefully that helps me out when I'm looking to get into the zoo business for real. Otherwise, I just did pretty much the usual hoofstock stuff all summer at Reid Park.
I went to Florida for a week. Two best days were the day we went to Animal Kingdom, and the day we went to Daytona for the NNS race. Daytona International is just an incredible place to go, and on a race weekend, it was absolutely ridiculous. A little disappointing still that Cup qualifying was rained out that day, but Junior winning the race in the Wrangler car definitely made up for it.
I got named drum captain of the drumline this year. It feels good, but it was really stressful for a while, but now it's starting to be ok, and doing the little extra things is actually kind of nice because my class load is really light this semester. I also became the marching percussion instructor at Desert View High School in Tucson. That'll give me something else to do and will definitely fill up my Tuesday and Thursday nights.
And, last but certainly not least, the Padres still have the best record in the NL :) The Angels might be awful this year, but the Padres have made up for it.
So maybe I'll start doing this more, even though I'm not sure if I'll be at the zoo this semester, but drumline will probably be able to fill this up fairly easily, and baseball of course.
Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach. I fell it in the air, summer's out of reach
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Life After You
It's been a while, so here's a recap of the last few weeks.
Kitchen is still mainly tortoise diets and some bird diet stuff. This week I went out and caught birds in the aviary, and the week before I went and cleaned the macaw night house, fed the otters and cleaned their pool, and cleaned the giraffe barn. That was a nice change of pace, especially feeding the otters.
I've missed a couple hoofstock days, but the one day I was there, the male rhino was being fussy about taking his meds, and he rammed into the female rhino pretty hard. That was crazy to see, since usually they're both really quiet and gentle. The other stuff going on in the area was fairly normal, just cleaning and feeding and all that good stuff.
Went on the carnivore side one day since I have been missing all these Saturdays. The muntjac is still my favorite animal on that side, even though we only go see her once, she's still the best. Really funny and comes right up to you. The tiger is still cool to be around, and I really need to figure out a project to do for him. The pigs are neat, and so is the sun bear. The sun bear is fun because she likes to get fed grapes. I still really like the Muntjac though.
In other life news, baseball is back! After Sunday I will have been to 7 games in two weeks. I love you baseball. And school's crazy busy and crazy hard. That's why I haven't really done this in a long time. And I'm now 21. That's pretty much the gist of the last month....
All that I'm after is a life full of laughter, as long as I'm laughing with you
Kitchen is still mainly tortoise diets and some bird diet stuff. This week I went out and caught birds in the aviary, and the week before I went and cleaned the macaw night house, fed the otters and cleaned their pool, and cleaned the giraffe barn. That was a nice change of pace, especially feeding the otters.
I've missed a couple hoofstock days, but the one day I was there, the male rhino was being fussy about taking his meds, and he rammed into the female rhino pretty hard. That was crazy to see, since usually they're both really quiet and gentle. The other stuff going on in the area was fairly normal, just cleaning and feeding and all that good stuff.
Went on the carnivore side one day since I have been missing all these Saturdays. The muntjac is still my favorite animal on that side, even though we only go see her once, she's still the best. Really funny and comes right up to you. The tiger is still cool to be around, and I really need to figure out a project to do for him. The pigs are neat, and so is the sun bear. The sun bear is fun because she likes to get fed grapes. I still really like the Muntjac though.
In other life news, baseball is back! After Sunday I will have been to 7 games in two weeks. I love you baseball. And school's crazy busy and crazy hard. That's why I haven't really done this in a long time. And I'm now 21. That's pretty much the gist of the last month....
All that I'm after is a life full of laughter, as long as I'm laughing with you
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Shattered
So, this week at the zoo was totally different than ever before, so that's a nice change of pace. Especially since I have to miss next Saturday because of section leader tryouts, so luckily I'll have a good taste in my mouth for a while.
TUESDAY
There was some kind of giraffe keeper conference thing in Arizona, so a bunch of giraffe people were coming to Tucson that afternoon. So everything had to get done fast because all the keepers had to join them on the tour at 2. So I did tortoise, bird and dry feed stuff. And three school groups came in during the morning, so it was a very busy morning.
SATURDAY
No hoofstock, but carnivore area this time. I was a little bit surprised, but hey, I'm down for seeing new stuff. Getting all the food prepped is kind of ridiculous because there's way more to do, and there's a lot of birds, so there's a lot more bowls and stuff, so it's slightly out of control, and I would definitely have a hard time remembering all the different things that we had to take out there.
The first stop was the bird run, where we fed everything but the parrots. The bird run is a little short, so I have to kind of hunch over just to walk in it at all, which is sort of annoying. And there's a lot of birds, which isn't really that great. The cockatoos can talk, so I had a really long conversation with them by just saying "Hi" and "How are you?". So bird run, not very exciting.
Next we went over to the muntjac. It's kind of like a deer the size of Kingston, just to give you an idea about how small this thing is. It was really funny though, it likes it when people scratch its neck for it because it can't reach it with its short little legs. There's some turtles in there too, but we just have to count them. Then we went over to tiger, which was really cool. Got right up next to it and I got some whisker and nose from it through the chain link fence. He was funny though, he has a cool noise when he's happy, and he's happy when he's eating his big plate of meat. While he was eating, we went in and cleaned, I cleaned the windows, and then sprayed cologne and some other scent everywhere, and rearranged his toys so he would have some new and exciting stuff to do.
Next up was Warty pigs and Sun Bear. The sun bear is really funny. She comes up to the fence and hangs on while you feed her. She doesn't like to go outside because she's old and is blind in her right eye, so that's kind of sad. The warty pigs are kind of weird. They have this huge complex social system, and there's only three of them haha. We fed all these guys and cleaned up their exhibit. There was a dead bird in the warty pig pool, so that was kind of interesting. After letting everyone out, we went over to elephants.
Elephants was just as cool this time as it was the first time, except I didn't touch its foot this time because it wasn't Cassie in charge of elephants. They're so big! It's really ridiculous to stand there next to them. After the two elephants were out we went back to the bird run to change out the water and feed the rest and hose down the floors. Once again, bird run is not my favorite part.
When we were done with the bird run for the day, we went back to warty pig/sun bear to clean up the back area, feed the sun bear its lunch, and do some warty pig training. But before training we went back to elephant where we put palm and bamboo on the fence for them and then watched them go around and pluck it all of after we were done putting it up.
The last thing of the day was to give the tiger a bone and clean out its back area, so we brought him inside, put the bone out on exhibit, and let him back out. That was interesting because it was in a giant trash can, so he tackled the trash can, go the bone, ran across his little stream and went to town on his bone. Then we cleaned out the back area, which took like 30 seconds because it was already pretty clean, and that was it for the day.
Only kitchen next week, but then the week after I go four times in a week, so that should be fun.
How many times can I break til I shatter?
TUESDAY
There was some kind of giraffe keeper conference thing in Arizona, so a bunch of giraffe people were coming to Tucson that afternoon. So everything had to get done fast because all the keepers had to join them on the tour at 2. So I did tortoise, bird and dry feed stuff. And three school groups came in during the morning, so it was a very busy morning.
SATURDAY
No hoofstock, but carnivore area this time. I was a little bit surprised, but hey, I'm down for seeing new stuff. Getting all the food prepped is kind of ridiculous because there's way more to do, and there's a lot of birds, so there's a lot more bowls and stuff, so it's slightly out of control, and I would definitely have a hard time remembering all the different things that we had to take out there.
The first stop was the bird run, where we fed everything but the parrots. The bird run is a little short, so I have to kind of hunch over just to walk in it at all, which is sort of annoying. And there's a lot of birds, which isn't really that great. The cockatoos can talk, so I had a really long conversation with them by just saying "Hi" and "How are you?". So bird run, not very exciting.
Next we went over to the muntjac. It's kind of like a deer the size of Kingston, just to give you an idea about how small this thing is. It was really funny though, it likes it when people scratch its neck for it because it can't reach it with its short little legs. There's some turtles in there too, but we just have to count them. Then we went over to tiger, which was really cool. Got right up next to it and I got some whisker and nose from it through the chain link fence. He was funny though, he has a cool noise when he's happy, and he's happy when he's eating his big plate of meat. While he was eating, we went in and cleaned, I cleaned the windows, and then sprayed cologne and some other scent everywhere, and rearranged his toys so he would have some new and exciting stuff to do.
Next up was Warty pigs and Sun Bear. The sun bear is really funny. She comes up to the fence and hangs on while you feed her. She doesn't like to go outside because she's old and is blind in her right eye, so that's kind of sad. The warty pigs are kind of weird. They have this huge complex social system, and there's only three of them haha. We fed all these guys and cleaned up their exhibit. There was a dead bird in the warty pig pool, so that was kind of interesting. After letting everyone out, we went over to elephants.
Elephants was just as cool this time as it was the first time, except I didn't touch its foot this time because it wasn't Cassie in charge of elephants. They're so big! It's really ridiculous to stand there next to them. After the two elephants were out we went back to the bird run to change out the water and feed the rest and hose down the floors. Once again, bird run is not my favorite part.
When we were done with the bird run for the day, we went back to warty pig/sun bear to clean up the back area, feed the sun bear its lunch, and do some warty pig training. But before training we went back to elephant where we put palm and bamboo on the fence for them and then watched them go around and pluck it all of after we were done putting it up.
The last thing of the day was to give the tiger a bone and clean out its back area, so we brought him inside, put the bone out on exhibit, and let him back out. That was interesting because it was in a giant trash can, so he tackled the trash can, go the bone, ran across his little stream and went to town on his bone. Then we cleaned out the back area, which took like 30 seconds because it was already pretty clean, and that was it for the day.
Only kitchen next week, but then the week after I go four times in a week, so that should be fun.
How many times can I break til I shatter?
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