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Sippin’ for the Seven Benefit

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It’s time for our third annual Sippin’ for the Seven wine tasting benefit!

I sent out an announcement today to our local list, which can be viewed and shared online.

We have a venue change this year to a bigger and beautiful space – Swiftwater Cellars at Suncadia Resort.

As you know if you’ve been to past CSNW events, we tend to sell out, so I advise that you get your tickets right away.

Here are the basics:

Saturday, February 26, 2011
5:00-7:30pm
Swifterwater Cellars, Suncadia Resort, 301 Rope Rider Drive, Cle Elum, WA

For full details visit the event page and be sure to check in on the Facebook page too – Facebook makes it easy to invite your friends.

If you’re unable to attend, please consider giving a donation.
We’ll send you a wine glass if you donate $40 or more!

We love Sippin’ !

Seeing green(s)

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Food is serious business to Burrito Chimpanzee and today he was seeing green. It’s been an unseasonably warm day today, so the greenhouse was a luxurious 60 degrees or so. We set up a huge lunch forage out there– I think Burrito was very happy with this decision.

Burrito expands his horizons

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It’s always fun to catch one of the chimpanzees doing something he or she doesn’t usually do. Burrito doesn’t engage in much self-directed play with toys or objects. He’ll pick up a wooden block to chew on, or pass a scarf to a caregiver for a game of tug of war, but he doesn’t seem much interested in toys for their own sake. Today, though, he found a toy he couldn’t get enough of. I had to stop filming eventually, but he entertained himself for quite awhile.

Greenhouse play

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Here’s the video I promised in yesterday’s blog post. My favorite part is when Annie joins in the play (using her favorite blanket-swinging method of play initiation), something she’s doing more and more as her confidence continues to grow (read Diana’s thoughts on the changes we’ve seen in Annie here.)

Distractions

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I’m going to be honest: Sometimes it’s just more fun to watch the chimpanzees play than it is to scrub the playroom. JB and I had a hard time making any significant progress this morning because the chimps were on fire (figuratively speaking)! We had some serious sun today, and relatively mild temperatures, which meant the greenhouse was warm and inviting. Foxie, Missy, and a troll doll had a lengthy play session on and around one of the window ledges; I’ll do my best to post that footage tomorrow.

For now, here’s a video of Annie reprising her stand-on-Missy game from this past summer (see that video here).