We are having a last burst of summer at the sanctuary this week with temperatures back in the 90’s. The flies and wasps are endlessly buzzing and the chimps and humans are all endlessly swatting. The chimp house is completely quiet as I type this. Negra is sound asleep in her window nest. Jamie is in her nest flipping through two new boot catalogs I gave her and filing her nails with an emery board. She is also making the occasional happy groan when she sees something she likes. (For those of you who are new to our blog, Jamie was raised in a human home by a trainer until the age of 9 and sometimes chooses to engage in more human oriented activities). Burrito, Foxie, Jody, and Annie are lying in the greenhouse with their feet propped up on the caging, arms splayed out to their sides. And Missy, always on the move Missy, just raced me through the chimp house to the window by the chimpanzees’ cherry tomato bush and asked me to pick some for her, and I of course was happy to oblige.
Autumn is definitely in the air these days although you wouldn’t know it right now. It’s hard to believe we will all be talking about cold temperatures and snow before long. But for now we can revel in the last lazy days of summer. We hope you are all enjoying the special days that only summertime brings as much as the chimpanzees. Here are a few photos of some of the chimpanzees during a forage on Young’s Hill this week:
Annie:
Missy:
Foxie and Dora:
Burrito:
Katelyn —
I LOVE these two lines —
“Jamie is in her nest flipping through two new boot catalogs I gave her and filing her nails with an emery board. She is also making the occasional happy groan when she sees something she likes.”
Can you generalize about Jamie’s taste in boots? Do you sometimes look at a photo or pair of boots and know Jamie will like them?
Thanks, Amy! Jamie is interested in all shoes and seems to like colorful things with lots of bells and whistles (laces, buckles, straps, none of which she can have for safety reasons). But for her, cowgirl boots are the be all and end all. The catalogs I gave her were of western wear so she was pretty excited about them. You never know what boots Jamie will declare as her current favorite. It’s often the newest ones but sometimes she will show no interest in ones we think she will love. She does seem to love tall, black boots though. Can’t blame her there. 🙂
Jamie is and always be my style icon. 😉