Our dear friend, Kathleen Corby, sponsored this extra special day of celebration and shared this beautiful message:
“Two very special reasons for me to sponsor lucky June 13th: 1. I want to celebrate beautiful, remarkable, beloved Negra on her 45th birthday. The very first time I saw Negra she stole my heart. Knowing her past makes me admire and respect her all the more as I watch her courageously take on new adventures each year. Can’t wait for Negra to surprise me this year and many more years to come….Happy Birthday dear girl! 2. I am excited to celebrate with you from afar 10 magnificent years of Hope… Love… Home… Sanctuary at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. Little did Missy, Annie, Negra, Jody, Foxie, Jamie, and Burrito know that the long trip from PA to WA ten years ago would change their lives for the better forever! You have given them their dignity and you have restored their wild inner souls. Happy Sanctuary Anniversary Day and much love always!”
Kathleen, we are just so lucky to have you as part of our chimp family. From our hearts, thank you for always sharing yours with the chimps, with us all. You make a lasting difference in their lives and we so appreciate the love and reverence you hold for each of them. Thank you for helping us celebrate such a special day!
If you follow us on Facebook, you may have seen us live this morning as the Birthday Queen started her special day off enjoying a homemade breakfast of sweet potato and berry pancakes served in the sunny greenhouse! If Negra could have ALL the bread and carbs, she would be a happy woman. Wouldn’t we all, Neggie, wouldn’t we all.
Happy Birthday, Negra, we love you!
And to Annie, Burrito, Foxie, Jamie, Jody, Missy and Negra, Happy Anniversary!! Ten years in your sanctuary home bouyed by the love and support of so many near and far. You surprise, delight, teach and humble us every single day and we couldn’t love you more.
Jamie:
Annie and Missy:
Foxie:
Burrito:
Annie, Foxie and Jody:
These pictures are so beautiful and makes me smile. Happy Birthday to your sister from one who also loves Chimps.
A very Happy Birthday to the beautiful Queen Negra! May your day be filled with all of your favorite things. I wish you many more years filled with love!
Happy Anniversary to the other chimps. It is wonderful to see them happy and enjoying life.
Seeing these photographs inspires within me this paraphrase: “Consider the Chimpanzees in the field: they toileth not, neither do they spin; yet verily I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.”
All the Cle Elum chimps are beautiful!
I am so grateful that I live in a world where chimpanzees exist, and I am grateful that a rural mountainside exists in the Pacific Northwest for these seven amazing people to live and live in abundance. Happy anniversary to the residents and caregivers at the CSNW.