We are so fortunate to have so many amazing volunteers. They are always willing to jump in no matter how big or small the task is. Today, we tackled a big project and all of our awesome volunteers came to our aid! We were trading out the old wood chips in the Green House for some fresh new wood chips. This is no small task, though it is a satisfying one! We do this at least once a year depending on how long the chips last. However, we do change out the heavily soiled areas more often. But, it takes quite a few helping hands!
Here they are hard at work:
Here is the what the Green House looked like after!
Meanwhile, Jamie took a break from supervising to make a nest and relax a bit.
Jamie was actually really in the mood to have her photo taken.
Foxie came to say hello.
And left her doll for Jamie.
After, the Green House transformation everyone went out onto Young’s Hill for a perimeter check.
Even Neggie came out to soak up the sun.
Mave also found a comfy place to nest.
Willy B just wanted to play chase all day. Sorry it’s a little blurry, we were in mid-chase!
Wow that looks like a lot of hard work, I hope you all went for a well deserved drink afterwords !
Thanks for the wonderful pictures today….I love little Foxie leaving her Troll doll for Jamie, So sweet.
What a big project that is! I’ll bet Jody in particular is happy with the Spring cleaning! It’s so rare for Jamie to invite you to take pictures of her .. she looks very tranquil and thoughtful. hmmm.. 😉
The greenhouse looks worthy of a photo spread in Jamie’s favorite publication “Dwell”. Thank you volunteers for all your hard work. Kelsi, these are some of the best photos of bright eyed Jamie and I especially love the very top image and Jamie with Foxie’s troll. So sweet. Happy to see slinky decorations leftover from WillyFest 2020, hey, you never know when a guy might need to grab one and bust a move.
Haha, I imagine Jamie looking at that troll doll and thinking, “meh- 10 years later, and I still don’t get it.”
When they’re finished, send them over to us. I live in Putnam County, TN, 90 miles east of Nashville, and yes, that was OUR community hit so hard you saw on TV. One tornado went 3 miles north of me, another 2 miles south, and the third one branched in Baxter before going directly overhead. They actually shut down our University to let students volunteer to help out.
I heard thunder, heard sirens from the campus apartments simultaneously with the city sirens, grabbed my remote in time for them to say “Cookeville, if this is you, we have 2 on the ground as we speak so take shelter NOW!”
I hopped up, threw 3 cats into the bathroom, one after another, threw some Chucks on my feet, grabbed my medications, threw them in my backpack, and grabbed my pillow. We all sat in the tub and rode out the warning until 2:30 am. And as quickly as it took you to read that, it all happened to me in real time, just THAT fast and it was ON us. Thankfully, I didn’t lose even one minute of power and I’ve offered my home to someone so they can get on their feet or foster their animals until they can.
We have 55 dead and 20 missing, and they’re still pulling animals out of the rubble. It’s been the worst natural disaster to hit us in our history. Listening to the stories has been even more devastating.
First my mum dies on New Year’s Day, and now this. I haven’t even been able to paint. It’s been so nice with some sort of normalcy to read the blog, so thank-you for your consistency.
What is the protocol for if a tornado ever hits there? I assume someone needs to be in the same building with them as it’s happening. And what would you do if you just couldn’t get one of the chimps to comply and they eventually put themselves or others in danger because of it?
Cheers, everyone.
So happy to hear that you and your animals are safe and all made it through the nightmare. Perhaps, like your cats, you have 9 magical lives in you too.
Carla, I grew up in MI, and lived in WI for 10 yrs, so I know what that feeling is…luckily, in most places, I had a basement.
We don’t get them here in Rhody, it’s very rare, so folks don’t have the instinctive reactions or contingency plans that we do. They don’t even have the vocabulary to discuss them: they don’t know the difference between a watch or a warning, or what to do. I even heard a meteorologist refer to them as “intermittent ” the one time we had a brief warning. My friends were visiting from Chicago, and found that funny.
We have hurricanes, but of course they gave you three days’ notice. With a tornado, you just wake up in a tree. Or not at all.
It seems that they’ve started early this year…
I am so happy that you and the fur babies are okay, and bless you for opening your home to others! In an emergency like that, finding a place for pets can be so difficult.
If you know of reputable charities or groups we can donate to, please feel free to tell us here. Take care!
Carla: I am so sorry for you and all the people of Tenn. who went through this horrible ordeal. I am glad you and your cats are safe but I can’t imagine the terror you experienced as you sat there in your bathroom hearing all the sirens and devastation around you. And that was a good question you posed to CSNW about what the heck would happen if this would occur at the Sanctuary. I shudder to think of it.
Does WA state get tornados?
There have been tornadoes in Washington but they are rare and I don’t think there has ever been a deadly or significantly destructive tornado in our county.