Fall in Seattle

Leaves and  balls…

Embarrassing Halloween costumes…

New foster bunny girl (Finn)…

 

Yup, that about sums it up

Wheeeee!!!!

Wheeeee!!!!, originally uploaded by Jen_K.

You can see here how long my sled (and Tashi’s sprint) was.

Glissade

Glissade, originally uploaded by Jen_K.

This is at Granite mountain a few weekends ago. Photo by JenH. Tashi tried to get ahead of me and stop me from sliding. He was partially successful, which is impressive since I was sliding and he was running.

BEST DAY EVAR!

Duck rescue outside MSFT building 50!

Building 50 duck incident, May 14^th

This morning coming to work I happened to see a momma duck walking across the parking lot outside building 50 with her 8 babies in tow.  They walked over a drainage grate, and all 8 baby ducks disappear through the cracks and got trapped in the drain:

Frantic momma ran around trying to find her babies!

Brent brought a garbage can out from building 50, and facilities helped scoop them out.

Out came 7 baby ducks that we managed to herd back to Momma:

There was one problem though – baby #8 crawled down the pipe and wouldn’t budge.  Meanwhile freaked out momma duck was taking off with her 7 other babies. 

Rescue methodologies included:

• Trying to lure baby out of pipe with duck-call app downloaded to iphone.  Unsuccessful but it did allow us to pinpoint which pipe he was in due to his loud peeping.
• Flushing water down a different drain to try and push him out of the pipe.
• Going head first into ditch with flashlight to try and grab him.
• Sticking a piece of pvc pipe into the hole.
• Flushing even larger amount of water down pipe and catching baby in a net. (ultimately successful)

After 2.5 hours of being trapped in a pipe, baby Scout was placed snug and safe in a cardboard box.

Since there was little chance of finding momma again after so long, I took him to a local vet where he will get picked up by Sarvey wildlife center (they take donations on the website, btw!).   He will grow up at their facility in Arlington with some other baby duck friends and then be released back into the wild (i.e. the suburbs).

And yes, keeping him occurred to me but Greg has cut me off from adopting more pets . 

Thanks to Danny & Brent, and facilities who all helped with the rescue.  I am so happy that little Scout had a happy ending after all he went through this morning!

A rare moment of calm

I think there is a hint of comraderie!

Walter: Adorable bunny looking for a home…

I finally took some new photos of Walter, my new foster bunny from the Seattle Animal Shelter.  He’s pretty freaking cute.  And by the way – he’s available for adoption

Baroo?  Iz safe to exit box nao?

Dam, ur feetz steenk.

dunt hatez me beecuz i em bee-u-t-ful.

Our special weekend “on the Farm”

Most couples, to celebrate their anniversary, do things such as go on romantic getaways, eat dinner by candlelight, and exchange expensive gifts.  And what do Greg and I do to celebrate our anniversary?  We go to stay on an organic farm where we feed chickens, brush ponies, and gawk at the alpacas.  It was AWESOME.

We stayed at Once in a Blue Moon Farm on Orcas Island.  The owner Shana is incredibly warm and welcoming, and our room (the ‘carriage loft’) was super duper comfy and had a great views over the farm.  The place feels so much homier than a typical B&B.  I of course was super enthused about doing farmy activities and Shana was very accomodating.  I fed the chickens and the alpacas, collected eggs, groomed the pony and one of the horses, and went for a ride in their arena.  At the end of the weekend I did NOT want to leave.

Check out my inner farm girl bursting out as I hold this cute little hen:

 

Here is a photo of Greg surrounded by hungry Camelids.

 

Baroo?

If you live in the city but have farm life fantasies, you MUST go here.