green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

this is fantastic, it's so *earnest*. THIS IS THE FUTURE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSf7BFnObmc

the cats have been fed and are now galloping up and down the hallway chirping and yowling at each other. WE HAVE HAD FOOD NOW IT IS EXCITE TIME YAAAAAY

probably sleeptime. gnight awrroo, dream well and wake to wonders. <3

I decided to post the writeups I do about wildlife rehab volunteering on DW, so here's a link to yesterday's writeup: https://dracosaur.dreamwidth.org/1105.html CW as before for dead animal handling and mild animal injury discussion, although no actual animal death or injury.

reh reh reh

staying up checking the faucets every 2 minutes and staring at the people working down the hill isn't going to get the water fixed any faster

might as well go to sleeeeep

ok trying that now gnight awrrooo <3

should probably go to sleep

don'twanna

(dunno why don'twanna, just don't)

weh

I am only mollified from the fact that the last remaining trickles of water from our taps has completely tapered out by the fact that I can *still* hear the crew working on the pipe down the hill. and see their lights, though it was much more impressive when they were cutting a pipe or something and there was a massive flare of sparks--*that* was cool-looking. fingers crossed for working water Real Soon! :|

and, that was pretty much it. we have several owls, mostly barred but one great horned; an assortment of smaller birds, mostly flickers, pigeons, gulls, and crows; and we just got in a bald eagle that has a broken clavicle (I think?), whose prognosis is very iffy because of the injury. basically they can't do much for it; either it'll heal right, or it won't, all the vets can do is wait and see. :/

and then (the actual dead animal handling part) our rehabber gave us volunteers a brief training/orientation on how they splint breaks in bird wings and legs, what they look for when birds are brought in, etc. she demonstrated with a seagull and crowned kinglet, both previously deceased. they use coathangers to splint larger birds' legs, and paper clips for smaller ones!

so I took a seasonal project to clean the boots for Raccoon Nursery 1. there's three pairs of rubber boots on posts outside RN1, because raccoon contagion can be LITERALLY DEADLY so wearing your own shoes when the nurseries are in use is Discouraged. the boots were pretty clean already, though. I scrubbed and disinfected them anyway, and washed out a couple of spiders.