Valentines day was lovely - between our volunteer face painter, and the bake sale, we raised a decent amount of money at the ARC, and we even got in the paper! There were a bunch of visitors, and everyone wanted their picture taken with Henry, our resident Valentines Barn Owl.
Barn Owls are pretty cool in general, and I didn't mind talking about him all day! Spider gave everyone a show, even though he was too light to pull the lure off of the kite.
You can see the little tail of his transmitter backpack he wears in this picture - Falcon insurance.
After feeding everyone gutted mice and chopped up quail (My Bloody Valentine, reality edition), I was really ready for a romantic evening with Curtis. We had a gift card for the movies, and in the interest of putting our old student IDs to good use, we went to see Coraline.
The movie was great - I can't believe all the things they did with just claymation. I read somewhere that it had the first stop-motion transformation scene, and it was incredible! And they used those awesome 3D printers for the faces! I'm still geeking out about that one, it's nice to hear that people are finding ways to put them to practical use. Maybe one day they'll become our modern-day Star Trek replicators.
But the best part about Valentines day was that we got pictures of our new bird:
It's just too quiet around here without Peep - we needed a new birdie to help us procrastinate again. Only two more weeks and he can come stay with us!
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