Latest Obsession.

ok so no, there is not much going on in my life. Snow, work, home, sleep, work, shovel snow, sleep, now I am sick again.

So all I look forward to is seeing baby clover when I go to work. Just kidding, I am looking forward to spending my overtime check ;)

ok so here is the newest picture of baby clover.

Day 10:

It is really filling out. every one has two leaves...I am hoping for four.

Baby Clover!!!

Oops I forgot to post pics of baby clover on Friday so here are two pics...

Baby Clover Day 4:

and Baby Clover Day 7:

YAY! Baby Clover is growing up :)

Science Project at work...

Ok so I bought a small little pot at target in the dollar spot that is supposed to grow 4-leaf clovers. well, I am assuming they are 4-leaf, because that it what the little cartoon picture looked like.

So I brought it to work, so I could keep an eye on it all day and wouldn't forget to water it.

So baby clover sat in my cubicle next to my radio all morning for the sounds and my carbon dioxide, and then I moved baby clover to the window on the other side of my cubicle so he could have some afternoon sun.

Now, this sounds a little sad, and I am not bored at work, quite the contrary really, but I fell like having a little friend in my cubicle all day. (well, when he isn't sunning).

So here are the first photos of baby clover.

Day two (I planted them yesterday):

Peaceful...

Sometimes the snow is annoying. The commute is horrible, I have to shovel the driveway. Walking becomes just a little more difficult...but then, when you take a moment and really look, really see and just lose yourself in it, it is beautiful. Peaceful, beautiful falling snow.


When I was driving home today I was on a small road, and I snapped this photo:

Ok, so it is a little blurry, but you get my point (and I was moving--and how dangerous is it to take a picture while driving in the snow, so give me a break)
But, the white snow on the branches, the light snow falling from the sky. Just beautiful. And did you know that you can turn off your car lights and still see like daylight when it is snowing. The landscape is so bright...


PS, still mad about the zoo.

OUTRAGE!

I can't even begin to describe the outrage that I felt today.

I am not an animal activist, in general, but I can not handle this.

Today, at work, I found out that when animals at the zoo die, all the do is chop them up and bury them at the dump. They are treated like special waste, like asbestos.

They are buried, in pieces, in a whole in a landfill.

Now, I understand that these are not pets, but they are lovely. Lovely, wonderful, wild animals that we have taken from their homes, put in pens, most often too small for their bodies and leaving them to pace and swing their heads to and fro in boredom and frustration, with no other possibilities. Now, I try to be okay with zoos. I know they try to conserve and protect. But this is too much.

At first, I was a little horrified, but as the day went on, I just couldn't handle it.

If elephants have their own graveyard, why can't we do something better for them. Not that many zoo animals die. I understand they need to be cut up for autopsy, but can't we have them cremated?

I'm not asking for the zoos to fly the ashes to their home land in Africa, or Asia, or Australia, but can't we show them a little respect.

Just a little?
A giraffe just died in the Chicago area earlier this month, and I can't even imagine.

Just horrible, and sad, and outrage!

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=5BC6DC18AA0203DC96039D59728063C8?contentId=5533457&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

I'm sure they even did the same thing to the tiger in San Francisco.

Random Stuff.

Only two random things really. First, I was organizing my photos and I came across this:

Ok, So this is a photo of a house in Cornelius, Oregon, that I used to drive past on the way to work. That is a pink and white Chevy step-side pickup in the front yard, and yes, that is a bathtub, with a cover over it. I have no idea why it is in the front yard, has a cover, I have no idea. But I laughed every day. Oh, how I laughed. And I saw this picture and felt I had to put it up.

Then, this is my new favorite picture. It hasn't been above freezing for about 3 weeks. The sun was out on friday, so it was a little melty and then there were icicles everywhere. This is a pic from our front porch of the most giantist of all icicles. Fantastic!

oh, and it was snowing. So pretty!!

Now everything is melting, and it is supposed to be 40 degrees tomorrow and it was finally warm enough today that I could wash my car (and not be frozen inside-heehee)

So these are my random pictures for the day...

Baby It's Cold Outside...

heehee. it is -3 degrees outside right now, with a windchill of -21. I just looked at the weather in Portland, OR and they are all bundled up talking about the artic chill and the high being 34 degrees.
On our news stations they are waiting for deaths to be reported...oops!
hmmm...I think I will be staying in. They are warning about walking even a block outside in this cold. Yikes! I hope I get a good parking spot at target tomorrow.
Night!