The Arc

The zebra is settling in well, putting weight on and growing in strength and character every day.

“Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.” - unknown

We had a few huge storms last week which knocked out the electricity and water for a day, much as that can make things difficult, you can also learn a lot about yourself, your capabilities and what you really need.

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstein

The storm that did it!

It rained and raised and rained, I know it can rain here, but at one point I wasn't sure it would stop! As we have so many animals here I contemplated building an arc!

One morning we got up to film a video to say thank you to everyone who had supported the project last year. One of the shots we wanted to get was of sky lanterns and a sunset. After weeks trying to get a sunset we eventually had to go for a sunrise instead. Unfortunately it was the night that we had had a power cut so we all had scruffy hair etc and left the farm at 5.30 am in order to catch the right light. We tried to light one of the lanterns in the day just to practice, but it was really windy and we ended up burning the lantern!! The sunrise session went much better with staff, volunteers and a couple of the children. We got thank you’s in many languages and had so much fun setting off the lanterns, they looked so pretty. Despite the 5am wake up it really was one of those moments where you realise you could be working in a normal office job or doing something uber special and different. 

“Your work is to discover your work and then give yourself with all your heart to it.” - Buddha

When I arrived we had a spider called Fred living above our office desk, Fred grew and grew and I started to wonder if the big white body he seemed to have was actually an egg sack? A  few days ago we came into the office and the egg sack had burst open, there were about 200 baby spiders in a cluster by the ceiling. The next day Fred (or rather Frederica) had spun a web all over our desk connecting everything (desk, chair, bag, jumper, laptop etc). Despite some of the farm jobs we have had to do, including sawing up horses legs to feed the carnivores, we still had to call in the biologists to move the little family!

All the office staff usually work on into the evening as we are all quite passionate about what we do and like to achieve, but where there is hard work there is also a few cheeky beers! Our office bin Thursday evening…

“Happiness is not a matter  of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” - Thomas Merton