I decided to do a little retrospective of the blog today and found the posts around this time for the last five years. It’s interesting what’s changed, what’s remained the same, and what’s entirely different.
Today I posted this photo on Burrito’s Facebook page and described him as handsome:
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And today volunteers Lynn and Patti staffed our booth at PAWSwalk. I worked in the chimp house with Debbie and Keith stopped by for a visit this afternoon with some friends.
Five years ago today, I posted about Keith and I staffing the PAWswalk booth and I posted a photo of handsome Burrito:
Today was a drizzly day, but that didn’t stop Jamie from going all around the hill four times – twice with me and twice with volunteer Keri. On her fourth trip around, Jamie ran the whole way. She got pretty wet from the rain, but didn’t seem to mind at all.
It was drizzly four years ago at this time too, so toothbrushes were the rainy day enrichment.
Three years ago we had the ingenious idea to fill troll dolls with treats and freeze them. We’ve probably done this 50 times since then. I love Jamie’s somewhat frustrated initial reaction:
Two years ago Young’s Hill was almost but not quite complete, and we were speculating about whether the chimpanzees might be hesitant to walk into the great wide open space.
And one year ago, we posted this in-depth story that KOMO news did about the fire that burned the grass on Young’s Hill and damaged the caregiver house on the property:
Great post, Diana! I always love then/now, before/after posts, stories, videos, etc.!
Thank you for the ‘retrospective’. Nice to be reminded how far they’ve come. Still get a kick out of bi pedal running!
Thanks for the posting through the years. It is a good reminder to see how far everyone has come, chimps and humans. And boy has everyone come a long way!!!