{"id":2669,"date":"2013-03-10T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2013-03-10T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T00:07:08","slug":"zoo-and-some-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Zoo and some other stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, Brian and I went to the Zoo for a couple of hours. It was sunny and kind of warm (though not nearly as warm as it was this afternoon), and most importantly, it was not crowded. Soon the school field trips will start, and even midweek trips to the Zoo will be full of screeching children.<\/p>\n

Only 2 polar bears are on exhibit, as the 3rd is still hiding with her new babies. I think we’ll get some sweet cub action in May. Here’s one of the other polar bears, through a fence:<\/p>\n

\"Polar<\/a><\/p>\n

Penguins are cute!<\/p>\n

\"Pengin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The eagles were sitting nearer to each other and on a different log than I’ve ever seen them sit. So exciting:<\/p>\n

\"EEEEAGLE!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We did find our names on the ZooPal board. Happy Valentine’s Day to us (and the polar bears and otters):<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

We did go in the conservatory, which was unpleasantly warm and fogged our glasses. I took this picture that I sort of liked:<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a cute picture of Harvard and Brian lounging. I labeled the picture “Sleeping Harvard,” but now I see that he is giving me a mean look, like usual:<\/p>\n

\"Sleeping<\/a><\/p>\n

We have been giving him special kidney diet wet food, and he seems to like it. It is a little difficult to give him different food than the other cats, because the other cats are jealous whores, but I think he’s actually getting mostly canned food, so we can’t ask for much more. Here he is licking his special food:<\/p>\n

\"So<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, when I opened the blinds in the bedroom, I saw this and quickly summoned Brian so he could also bask in our bad mailbox luck:<\/p>\n

\"Doooooom\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the 3rd or 4th time that our mailbox has been hit. I don’t even know. What the hell?<\/p>\n

We were going to go get a whole new mailbox (and we would have if the lumber place was open after noon yesterday…), but I decided to just get a new stick<\/del>post for $19.97 at Menards. Today, Brian did some masculine drilling voodoo and fixed it right up (and I used the staple gun to “fix” the roof of the house…it’s pretty trashy, but it’s just going to get collided with sometime soon, so I refuse to care).<\/p>\n

Also, I spent this weekend on some sort of weird Mike’s hard cranberry lemonade and frozen strawberry margarita bender. I’m regrouping but I’m not ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, Brian and I went to the Zoo for a couple of hours. It was sunny and kind of warm (though not nearly as warm as it was this afternoon), and most importantly, it was not crowded. Soon the school … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,8,37,43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-jesus-spites-me","category-cats-and-more-cats","category-domesticity","category-honeybear","category-house-and-yard","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theshellybeach.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}