Tag: beda
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Pioneertown, California: a little real and a little surreal
The day after camping at the trailer palace, J and I (and our friends who went with us) decided to drive to Pioneertown. Pioneertown is a little place in the middle of almost nowhere that has a restaurant, a post office, a motel, and some buildings that are all straight out of an Old West…
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Trailer park fun and vintage things older than me: Joshua Tree camping trip
I apologize for the break in daily posting. Last week J and I went camping (of a sort) with some friends in the Joshua Tree National Park area. We stayed in an artists’ retreat, of the sort that values their privacy (and so doesn’t give out an address, just directions a few days before you…
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Making Friends in a Small World
I can’t think of anything to write about today. It was a busy, productive day but not in the interesting way that some days are, more in the pick-axing the lion exhibit for an hour and a half and getting lots of cleaning and chores done sort of way. I did make a new friend,…
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Wednesday Tea Fail
Today I had Tea Fail. I’ve been making loose-leaf tea for breakfast lately because I can tweak it a little more to my tastes. This morning I came downstairs and put the kettle on to boil, then went to check my email. When it started to whistle, I got up and flipped the lid to…
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Reasons I love my cats
You’re getting this post in part because it’s not even 9pm and I’m seriously considering heading toward bed as soon as I’m done. Also because I haven’t written about my cats yet for this whole BEDA thing. And nothing much interesting happened today except the zoo’s volunteer appreciation dinner. I went, I ate, and felt…
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Container Gardens, renewed
This weekend I wanted to get outside and do something, and I also wanted to be productive, so I decided to pull out all of the empty pots that used to be my container garden and redo them. The flowers died over the summer and fall because we had an unusually hot and dry season.…
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Thoughts on Chimpanzee (the movie, not the animal)
As this weekend was Earth Day, it was also the opening weekend for the new Disneynature movie, Chimpanzee. And as I have every year, I went with a group from the zoo to go see it. It’s always interesting to go see an animal movie w/ zoo people because we see things with that perspective. So…
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Flowers and Dancing Sea Creatures
Today was a nice day and I wanted to be outside so I went to the garden store and bought potting soil and some annuals (okay, a lot of annuals) and I remade all of my container gardens. The pots are now in groupings on the front porch (where I am better about watering, and…
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At the Mad Hatter Tea
I finally got my photos edited and uploaded from the Mad Hatter tea party last weekend. You can see them at my photo blog, though I’ll post a couple of favorites here. Many of the photos are either of me or of my friend’s daughter, mostly because I didn’t take many photos of the actual…
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Life Lessons from the Zoo
I realized today that I have learned several important Life Lessons from my time spent at various zoo and animal-related places. Here are some of them. Easy humor is not the same as smart humor and usually not clever or original. Put some thought into it. (Just today I got the oh-so-clever line, “And what…
Joanna Volavka 