Monkey!

The Phoenix Zoo has a really cool monkey habitat where you actually walk into their enclosure and they’re moving in the trees all around you. Very cool for pictures.

Om nom nom

The Phoenix Zoo is doing it wrong (not really)

Look at the Phoenix Zoo, caging the people and letting the animals run free!

No, not really, but the picture sure makes it look that way, doesn’t it?

Chillin’

I was going through some pictures I took recently and had to share this one of Boo.

Amazed

I went outside last night (I have Sunday and Monday off) to mow the back yard.

Before the actual mowing, I went and got the pooper scooper to clean up…

Cider’s taking a nap

Friday Photo has gone to the birds!

Birds!

These little guys live in a nest on the back porch. They were both gone just a couple days after I shot the pictures of them. I’m assuming their mommy taught them how to fly.

There’s another shot of these fellas coming next week.

Food made with injustice is so tasty!

As I previously mentioned I would do, I went to Pei Wei during the protest. I’ll report on it in Random Thoughts style:

• When we got there, just a little after 6, there was one person from the protest inside talking to the manager about it. He tried talking to people inside about the protest, but was quickly run off for loitering. Not that i blame the guy for wanting to stay inside, it was 106 out there.
• Pei-Wei’s orange peel chicken is really, really good.
• People eventually showed up with signs: one said something about not eating food “made with injustice.” Refer to this blog entry’s title for my thoughts on that…
• When I walked outside to take the picture you see above, I pointed out that the fired employees didn’t call in to say they were missing work. One asked “So you want to join us?” I responded with something to the tune of “No, I think y’all are a bunch of idiots!” and walked back inside.
• By the way, more people showed after I took that picture. There were probably 10-15 folks there total.
• As we left, I talked a little with one of the protesters. Here are some highlights from that:
• He asked me if I thought employees should be fired for missing work. I said “absolutely.”
• He then asked me if I’d ever been fired (as if that was really relevant) and I said no. The guy went on to tell me that he has been four times. Which sounds crazy, he couldn’t have been much older than me and fired FOUR times, really? Wow.
• He then brought up the economy and how hard it is to find a job, as if he thought that it should have some sway on the issue. I simply told him “Yea, I know, I just moved here and JUST got hired after looking for a job for two months.”
• He then started talking about that “racist” SB 1070. I asked him “What part of illegal don’t you understand?”
• It was then that I was convinced that the guy should be a talking head on the Sunday talk shows. He was a master at dodging the crux of questions.
• It was then that I left, stuffed with food made from injustice.

So, what did I learn?

• Protesters are stupid, and…
• Pei-Wei’s got some awesome food.

And that’s all I’ve got to say about it. I’ll leave you with this picture of my meal:

Friday Photo moves to Phoenix

Say hi to Cider!

She’s not a big fan of my camera.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s… an otter?

Ducky (though not of the rubber variety)

Pretty kitty!

This little fella just might be cuter than Our Maximum Leader.

Reba, the “playful” elephant

The sign outside the enclosure says she’s playful. But how playful is she?

Teamwork

This was a really tough shot to get thanks to a stupid sheet of plexiglass between me and the monkeys.

Popping out

My Twitter followers will recognize this picture:

Bending down

Little bird.

Meerkat!

Another one from the Phoenix Zoo

In semi-related news, this afternoon I’m jumping on a plane and heading out there again.

Prairie dogs!

Welcome to Friday Photo, a feature where I share photos that I've taken with the world.

This will be the last Friday Photo I do with the tagline thingy up top… it’s time for it to go.

Aren’t they cute?