Million Dollar Baby
I've been watching the baby panda on the National Zoo's web site, and it's addictive. He's grown so much since his "stick of butter" birth. A friend of mine said "What a world we live in where you can watch a beheading on live feed, or watch a baby panda being cradled and fed." I said, "Uh...I'll take the panda every time."
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/
Some are lobbying to name the baby "Butterstick" (his appearance at birth), but I think they should name him "Worth His Weight In Gold," since we pay the Chinese government a million a year for the privilege of having the pandas around. My friend and I were watching Mommy, Mei Xiang, eat bamboo late last night, and we were talking about how we would never allow bamboo in our yards due to it's invasive properties. I was talking to a shrub specialist at a local nursery once, and he told me if you ever grow bamboo in your yard, be prepared to hire a backhoe to prune it or remove it. Ornamental bamboo shrubs in the Nandina family, however, can be a wonderful addition and add great color in the autumn.
I made a card for my friend to mark our conversation. The entire time I was drawing and painting, I had the web cam up, and I was listening to the baby's grunts, snuffles and squeals. Enough. This entry is turning into one huge AWWWWW moment...
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/
Some are lobbying to name the baby "Butterstick" (his appearance at birth), but I think they should name him "Worth His Weight In Gold," since we pay the Chinese government a million a year for the privilege of having the pandas around. My friend and I were watching Mommy, Mei Xiang, eat bamboo late last night, and we were talking about how we would never allow bamboo in our yards due to it's invasive properties. I was talking to a shrub specialist at a local nursery once, and he told me if you ever grow bamboo in your yard, be prepared to hire a backhoe to prune it or remove it. Ornamental bamboo shrubs in the Nandina family, however, can be a wonderful addition and add great color in the autumn.
I made a card for my friend to mark our conversation. The entire time I was drawing and painting, I had the web cam up, and I was listening to the baby's grunts, snuffles and squeals. Enough. This entry is turning into one huge AWWWWW moment...
posted by Washington Cube at 8:15 PM
3 Comments:
Sadly, I've been in DC for six years and never been to the zoo. I'm now inspired...
Cookie! Say it ain't so!! Well, then again, I used to live across the street from the zoo and now, in CP, I don't live much further. Plus, I have two nephews and The Chef's son, so we spend a lot of time there. Definitely go, but not on a weekend in the summer (too many trailor trash tourists hitting their kids) and not on a super hot day (lots of hills). Amazonia is very, very cool, and worth the trek all the way down down down to the end of the zoo.
WC--the cameras are at capacity now and won't let anyone new on. I think you've started something! ;)
DC Cookie, we will have to plan an outing to the zoo because I haven't been either.
In fact, I cannot even tell you the last time I have been to a zoo.
I've always have been fascinated with pandas, though. They are so cute and vicious...it's all good.
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