Roses

Today we made our annual pilgrimage to the Rose Farm. SirBiggs had a dentist appointment near the zoo, and so went to work with ZooDaddy. So it was me, the two Roses and MisterTepps who had the task of choosing roses for the courtyard of the new house. How lovely it was to know that I actually needed to buy roses this time, and wasn't going to have to try and decide what in the garden to sacrifice for every purchase I was tempted to make. We invited the cousins along, which was wonderful, as it was their first time there. What a lovely morning we had!

First we wandered among the roses trying to get a feel for what we liked:

 We then took a break in the shade of the tea garden.

 The Roses,Teppity and cousins had fun on the play equipment:

The Mommies had fun drinking tea, browsing the catalogue and pondering our choices:

LadyLolo practiced her photography:

And we feasted on Apple Pie, Rose-shaped scones (with rose jam) and happy-face pizzas

At the end of the day we came home with eight new roses: Six for us and two as gifts for friends. Hopefully we will plant ours tomorrow.

In other news (a follow-up to yesterday's other news): Thanks to my red beads ZooDaddy and a student have ascertained that it takes 21 hours for food ingested by a zebra to pass through the digestive system (vitally-needed information, I'm told). Yes, that poor student had to sit all day watching the zebra, noting the time of each zebra poo and then looking though poo for red beads. Who says research is no fun?