Duet at Conservatory Studio Class

Cutie-patootie

Poor little guy...I get the feeling the great outdoors will not be his forte. He came in after this picture with about half a dozen bleeding bites from some kind of blood sucking bug and I think he's allergic to grass. Hopefully he will grow out of it. If not he can just be a comedian or impressionist...please see the last post of this month called "Loony Tunes Quotes".

Jim Pecks Wildlife Park

Hard to see under her hand a tiny baby rabbit. There were at least 20 in this pen all huddled in a pile.

My wings are THIS big...

Aw...baby fawn

Budgie bird encounter...a big hit

More Budgies...

Feeding a kangaroo

Missing our California turtles

A very fat rabbit...the other picture I had she was kissing it's butt.

Pigs...though I can't tell which is the front and which is the back.

These baby goats were into everything

Baby goat.

BUGS...

Well, since bugs are practically a way of life out here I thought I'd put a spin on it and get Zoey interested, rather than scared of them like me. So far, she has raised 5 Painted Lady Butterflies from caterpillars and we are working on a trichordestra legitma moth caterpiller that we captured. Also, 11 ladybug (Coccinellidae magnifica)larvae have just entered into pupae stage. I will not do spider education though...the line was drawn on that (in concrete) years ago.

Studying the butterfly below...

Vanessa cardui

Goodbye kiss.

Chicago

A quick trip to Chicago to visit Chris and be semi-local tourists. We went to the top of the Sears Tower, had deep-dish pizza at Lou Malnatis, went to the Museum of Natural History, the Jelly Belly factory warehouse, rode the bus, the train and a taxi.


This is new to me...they now have these overhanging plexi-glass window boxes on the balcony of the Sears Tower.


The kids before the T-Rex 3-D movie at the Museum.

Loony Tunes Quote

OK...so I'm kinda "old school" when it comes to cartoons. Luckily, both kids obliged and actually do like all the original Loony Tunes cartoons. Milo likes to try to quote Sylvester's lisp saying, "Suffering Succotash..." I find the result to be hilarious. So glad to have had the camera handy and thankful that he was in a performing mood.

Yeah, he is saying "Fuckering Fuckotash" but it's an innocent mistake, right? Regardless, I still felt the need to give a heads up to the teachers at school about what he was NOT saying.