Sunrise, Sunset, Knitting

Today was an excellet day. It started with a cold front settled over Tampa and a clear, cool sunrise. A good day at work, where the new baby rhino was officially announced to have a name, which means we can start working on name recognition.

Her name is Jasiri, by the way. She's awesome. Here's a pic. Thanks to all who voted.

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Anywho, here's a few more pics from the day.            A beautiful day.

A beautiful day wasn't the end of the story- In addition to a good work day I also had social plans that included interacting with Complete Strangers!  I was going to learn a new skill with a friend. Now, that fellow zookeeper ended up unable to make it, which was a bummer. However, I was still able to go, and as I drove towards downtown Tampa I was treated to a beautiful sunset. It looked lovely through the buildings and I kind of wished I had driven a bit further to be able to see it over the gulf.

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My adventure, after the sun had set, the temperatures began to fall again and after listening to Marketplace APM on NPR (Shout out to Kai Ryssdal) I entered the lovely store - Knit and Knibble. Under excellent instruction and in about one and a half hours I learned the basics of knitting. I can start, add to rows and then finish off the project.

So...at this point...I could knit a scarf, a long scarf or a wide scarf. Tonight I made a mini scarf.

Fun terms - there are "loose" knitters and "tight" knitters.

Also, the more experienced knitters in the main room greeted a new member with the question - Do you have cats? Where a positive answer to that question was met with smiles, laughs and further debate on different cat foods. 

And after I had waded into the yarn weaving world, I got do drive on the upper deck of the crosstown. It is just so cool driving up above the city and seeing the  city layout and the thousands of little lights.

And my night wasn't over yet!

I get home to a chihuahua who was VERY happy to see me. The others were happy to see me but she was VERY happy. Here - take a look.

She and Duncan had done well while I was out so I decided to reward them. I gave this little girl (still unnamed, I just can't seem to nail it down, I am kind of leaning towards Daphne, but not sure yet) a treat of rawhide wrapped in dried bacon. She adores them. I gave Duncan, my other dog who is literally 10x her size, a larger rawhide treat. 

I walked from the room and when I came back Duncan had stolen her treat.  I was going to intervene until I watched her walk over and take Duncan's much larger rawhide while he was eating hers. It felt like justice, so I let it slide. And, when Duncan finished hers and went to look for his, it was quite funny to see his realization of what had happened. I let her chew on it for a bit before taking it from her. (She'll get to work more on it later.)

Daphne (name?) with Duncan's treat, seizing the opportunity.

Duncan with her treat. I hope it was satisfying, buddy. Maybe we learned a lesson tonight?

Bottom line:
Pets make our lives better (Adopt!)
Knitting is fairly simple to learn.
Sunrises and sunsets are awesome.
Baby rhinos are just as awesome.
Kai Ryssdal tweeted back at me!

I tweeted - @kairyssdal @marketplaceapm Was listening to podcast of TAL [This American Life] when I realized it was just after 6, switched to NPR immediately. #loveyouguys

*to which he responded - Love you too. RT @artandrhinos: @MarketplaceAPM Was listening to podcast of TAL, realized it was just after 6, switched to NPR. #loveyouguys

Woot and squee!

Gods, I am geeking out over National Public Radio. Yes, I am a hippie and a geek and I love it. Night all! Thank you for reading my humble little blog and may you have a wondrous day.