…and llamas, bison and Barbary sheep
One of the highlights at the High Park Zoo in Toronto is the pen where the cabybara live. This week I took a trip there with out granddaughter who specifically wanted to see cabybarra. Luckily for us we got there at feeding time so we had a great view of these massive rodents.
…from our visit to the High Park Zoo, the beach at the cottage and Canada’s Wonderland
If you have any trios to share just copy my link and paste it into your post. I’ll get a pingback and I’ll be sure to check it out and leave a comment. Enjoy!
…thanks to Judy for hosting the Numbers Game https://judydykstrabrown.com/2024/06/10/the-numbers-game-25-june-10-2024-please-play-along/
Have you ever typed in a number in the search box when you’re looking at your photos in Photos or wherever you store your shots? It’s quite interesting to see what pops up. Here are some of the photos with 146.
…thanks to Judy for hosting the Number Challenge https://judydykstrabrown.com/2024/04/21/the-numbers-game-18-apr-22-2024/
This week’s number is 139.
…and my husband pointed out that we’ve around for over half of them
I attended the University of Guelph from 1971-75 and I met my husband Kevin there in 1973. College Royal is the annual open house that the university hosts in March. Many of the departments open their doors with displays and interactive demonstrations that highlight some of the work that goes on in the halls of academia.
One of the more popular attractions is the farming area that bring the public and farm animals together. The University of Guelph started out as an agricultural school but quickly brought in other avenues of study, such as Family Studies, veterinary studies, economics, hotel and food administration, visual arts, sciences, just to name a few.
The last two photos show the cow that has had a portal surgically placed in her side to remove rumen from one of her stomachs. The rumen has healthy bacteria that is needed for some sick cows to regulate their own gut bacteria. It may seem cruel but the cow doesn’t seem to feel a thing when the demonstrator went in with her arm to fetch some of her good gut bacteria.
It was a beautiful day after the snow and rain stopped and we were able to walk around the campus to take in some of the sites.
One of our last stops before going to the dog show was checking out the community art show. I had entered four of my pieces, just for fun, and was most delighted when I found a white third place ribbon on one of my pieces.
At the beginning of this piece I mentioned that we’ve lived through more than 50 College Royals. We certainly haven’t attended that many but over the years we participated in quite a few. When the kids were little we took them there a couple of times and we went back when Andrea our eldest daughter attended the university and now our granddaughters are studying there and we’ve shown them around on at least two occasions.
…visiting the barns at College Royal in Guelph
The bees were in an enclosure behind glass and they never stop moving so these were the clearest shots that I could get with my iPhone.
…thanks to Kaye for the prompt, Olive for the JusJoJan24 challenge https://kayespencer.com/2024/01/11/jusjojan24-1-11-2024-feline-olive-jusjojan24-cats-feralcats/
As soon as I heard that ‘Olive’ was the prompt for the JusJoJan challenge I immediately thought of my granddog, Olive. She is a seven year old Frenchie, that brings us much love and joy, especially when we get to dogsit her.
…Tober is back with his owner
…with birthday gifts that will never let me forget
This past August, while I was returning Tober, our neighbours cat, back to his house for the evening I was accosted by a trio of raccoons.
It all started one warm August evening, when I headed over to my neighbour’s house thinking that Tober was right behind me. I had left our front door wide open and Tober was sitting on the porch. I called him over and when he wouldn’t move I went into the neighbour’s house and brought out a bag of cat treats. I shook the bag, hoping that the sound would entice Tober to make his way home. I saw some movement on the lawn and because it was already dark I assumed it was the cat. Upon closer inspection, though I discovered that the moving object was a large raccoon. I wrongly assumed that the raccoon would scurry away when he saw me but he or she was quickly joined by not one but two more raccoons.
When I realized that they were all headed in my direction I opened the treat bag and threw a small handful of treats down the driveway. As they gobbled up the treats I made my way for the front door of my neighbour’s house. It only took a nano second for them to finish the few treats and they came straight up the stairs onto the porch and put their paws on the screen door. I yelled at them, kicked the front door and nothing deterred them. I was at a loss as to what I should do. I knew that if I opened the door they would come into the house and go straight to the cat’s bowl of food.
On most evenings there would be numerous people out walking their dogs before going to bed but on this particular night there wasn’t a soul in sight. What to do? I found the land line in the house and called my husband. No answer. I knew that he probably didn’t recognize the number so I tried again but the phone had been off the charging cradle for so long that it died. I tried calling out onto the street and over to our house but no one heard me.
Luckily for me the neighbour, on the north side of the house was still awake and on his computer. I opened the window and called over. He looked confused because he didn’t know where the cry was coming from. I told him where I was and he looked out his back window. I told him I was trapped in the house. At first he thought I was joking but he quickly realized that I wasn’t. In a few minutes he came over, with his 7 iron golf club. He had no intention of hurting them but he thought they would run away as soon as they saw him. They didn’t. He nudged them with his club and made a lot of noise. They were stubborn but eventually they left the porch and I was able to get out of the house. He helped me get the cat back to his house and we parted ways.
A week later it was my birthday and unbeknownst to me my husband, Kevin had told everyone about my adventure with the raccoon trio. At the party he was very anxious for me to open my presents. This in itself was unusual but I decided to humour him and started to open my gifts. The first few were lovely, thoughtful presents and then all of a sudden raccoon themed gifts started to appear. After the first raccoon gift everyone wanted me to retell the story. Little did I realize that the rest of the gifts all had a raccoon theme. It was definitely a fun birthday and one that I will not soon forget.
This week’s trio is more a story than a photo challenge but one of the cards does have a trio of raccoons on it. If you have any trios you’d like to share just copy my link and post it into your blog. I’ll check it out and leave a comment.
Mama Cormier 