I love my little flip phone. It fits in my key chain so is easy to carry and always have with me. Me and my phone are fodder for many jokes. Last week I asked Jill to take a photo for me. She pulled out her phone and at the same time made some comment about my phone’s and my inability to take a photo. I immediately got my phone and figured out not only how to take a photoRead more
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You Dropped Something: Part 2
This time, it was my fault (unlike last time, where I was just a bystander). I could not stop dropping things a few Sundays ago. I dropped an entire box of metal lemur bowls later in the day, too. I didn’t have the heart to photograph that mess.Read more
You Dropped Something: Part 1
The access driveway down to the lemur house is steeper than it looks. It takes a little practice driving the utility vehicles up and down it before you get the hang of just how much gas you need to climb it. Today’s lesson: Don’t floor the accelerator with the tailgate down. We were late to a meeting. This made us just a little bit later.Read more
Watermelon Day 2015!
It’s Watermelon Day 2015!! Are you coming to visit today to watch our animals get silly over watermelons?! You should! There will be short programs happening all day long in the Farmyard, Bears, Lemurs, and in Carolina Wildlife. You can even leave a watermelon at the front desk for the critters to eat later in the day! Check out some of our past years below, or do a search in the orange bar below the blog for all ofRead more
Wobble Wobble
The bears have a new structure in their yard! It looks a bit like one of the Observatory Towers in Queens, New York, only smaller. Keeper Autumn, and our amazing exhibits staff, built a “wobble tree” for the bears! It’s a food dispensing tower that’s nearly 14 feet tall. We load food onto the platform on the top, then the bears need to push or pull the tower to make the food fall out. Here’s a video of Mimi knockingRead more
QuikPics: Dashboard Cookies
Most everyone has heard the adage, “it’s so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk!” or some variation of it. I wondered, similarly, if it would be possible to bake cookies on the dashboard of my car on a 100+ degree day. This is a science museum, after all! Words of caution: I cannot speak to the safety of eating cookies that baked in a car for nearly 10 hours. There are eggs and other ingredients in cookieRead more