It’s National Zoo Keeper Week so I gave the Keepers off for the afternoon yesterday. Okay, it’s not as bad as when I work alone on Christmas, but we all know what happens when I am here alone. The Keepers started trickling out for the afternoon around noon. I think I was literally under the leaking fish stream when Katy, Sarah, and Marilyn left. Then, the power went out while I was working on the computer. An explicative or two were said, (I thinkRead more
Posts tagged: #Christmas
Muskrat video
Here’s the video I said I would share from Christmas of the muskrats eating. Enjoy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCHUUp7lMvc&feature=youtube_gdata[/youtube] Read more
Christmas 2011
A fairly uneventful Christmas 2011 is over. I am delayed in getting this post up as the Blog was apparently down. The day went like so: I arrived at 5:15 AM. Saturday, I asked Marilyn to “set me up well” for the day, and she did just that, along with the added instruction list. I did not know that Ladybelle Ferret “liked” warm water in her carnivore care food so that was particularly helpful to know. I checked on theRead more
QuikPost: Christmas is coming
It’s less than one week until I give all the keepers off and come in and take care of everything. Besides enjoying the time off, this gives the keepers multiple opportunities to critique my work. Hours of amusement have come out of my working every Christmas for the past 18 years. Previous year’s posts are below, and I’ll write more on Sunday. Christmas 2010 Christmas 2009 Christmas 2008 Christmas 2007Read more
Christmas 2010
It’s around 11:00 and Christmas 2010 is very uneventful- nothing to laugh or cry about yet. (Click here to read about past Christmas’ which were much more interesting!) I arrived around 5:30 this morning. There was no rain, no flat tires, no really sick animals, nothing. I checked in with the security guard and then began my day. I let Ladybelle ferret wander around. It did take 10 photos to get this non-blurry photo of her. I worked through feeding,Read more
Ghosts of Christmas’ Past
Christmas is coming. I give the Keepers off for Christmas and I work, which means I am in for a bit of grief from them. They will tease me incessantly about my “keeping skills” as well as all the things that have gone wrong for me during past Christmas’. Actually, I am due for a doozy, as the past two years have not been so bad (2007 was the worst!) Click on the links below to read about past Christmas’Read more