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senoritafish) wrote2010-08-04 09:33 am
senoritafish) wrote2010-08-04 09:33 am
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Met one of the admin staff coming out the door as I was going in and noticed she had a supportive boot on one foot - she told me she'd been wearing high heels, stepped in a sprinkler hole and broken her ankle. Ow. But it went well with her other black sneaker with florescent pink laces.
She also warned me there was a skunk around the building that had already sprayed one person; the maintenance guys had already shooed it around the other side of the building where there aren't any doors, though. That's a brave guy; although she originally used the word "chased," she amended it to "ambled." In other wildlife news, there is a mother mallard raising about eight ducklings in the building's atrium. They paddle around in the fountain and must be eating whatever bugs and things are in among the plantings, which they hide in whenever anyone goes out there; the maintenance staff had been giving them a little extra but one of our biologists got after them about the prohibition on feeding wildlife. Mom can fly in and out, but I wonder if the babies going to be there until they learn to fly, too? I'll have to see if I can get some pictures of them before they leave.
She also warned me there was a skunk around the building that had already sprayed one person; the maintenance guys had already shooed it around the other side of the building where there aren't any doors, though. That's a brave guy; although she originally used the word "chased," she amended it to "ambled." In other wildlife news, there is a mother mallard raising about eight ducklings in the building's atrium. They paddle around in the fountain and must be eating whatever bugs and things are in among the plantings, which they hide in whenever anyone goes out there; the maintenance staff had been giving them a little extra but one of our biologists got after them about the prohibition on feeding wildlife. Mom can fly in and out, but I wonder if the babies going to be there until they learn to fly, too? I'll have to see if I can get some pictures of them before they leave.