NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby hippopotamus that survived the tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa , officials said. The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Ind ian Ocean , then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.





"It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park , told AFP.

"After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added. "The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and
by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.



"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."


This is a real story that shows that our differences don't matter much when we need the comfort of another. We could all learn a lesson from these two creatures, "Look beyond the differences and find a way to walk the path together."

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.


~Sarah~

I hope you all had a great time this past Memorial Day weekend!!!

Update in school...I'm finishing up the last two weeks of my third quarter and so far I have a 90%. Two more assignments still have to be graded and then I'll get my final grade.

10 days until GRAND ASSEMBLY. It's the state meeting of Rainbow Girls, I've mentioned before. It's my sister and I's last one as members. We're too old, so they're kicking us out. Not really...but definately a bittersweet time! In 11 days...all my hair is coming off. TEN inches..I'll take a before and after pic!!

Hope you all are doing well!!!!!!!!!!!

~Sarah~

FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.



PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again.



They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong Buttons.



TIRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated.



HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go any where, you have to light a fire under their butt



SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.



WEB PAGES:
Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.



TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.



EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.



HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.



THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying
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Boudreaux, the smoothest-talking Cajun in the Louisiana National Guard, got called up to active duty.
Boudreaux's first assignment was to a military induction center, and because he was a good talker, was assigned the duty of advising new recruits about government benefits, especially the GI insurance to which they were entitled.
Before long, the Captain in charge of the induction center began noticing that Boudreaux was getting a 99% sign up rate for the more expensive supplemental form of GI insurance. This was odd, because it would cost these low-income recruits $30 per month more for the higher coverage, compared to what the government was already
providing at no charge.
The Captain decided that he would not ask Boudreaux directly about his selling techniques, but instead he would sit in the back of the room at the next briefing and observe Boudreaux's sales pitch.
Boudreaux stood up before the latest group of inductees and said, "If you got da normal GI inshoranse an' you go to Iraq an' git yoself kilt, da governmen' gonna pay you beneficiary $20,000. If you take out da supplemental inshoranse, which cost you only t'irty dollar a mont , den da governmen' gotta pay you beneficiary $200,000."
"NOW," Boudreaux concluded, "which bunch you tink dey gonna send ta Iraq furst?"


~Sarah~

EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A NURSE OR DO NOT KNOW A NURSE PERSONALLY, YOU SHOULD ENJOY THIS HUMOR!!!!

Did you hear about the nurse who died and went straight to hell?
It took her two weeks to realize she wasn't at work!

You know you're a nurse if... you would like to meet the inventor
of the call light some night in a dark alley.

You know the smell of different diarrhea to identify it.

You've been telling stories in a restaurant and made someone at
another table "sick".

You've told a confused patient that your name was that of your
co-worker and to holler if they need help.

Your bladder can expand to the size of a Winnebago's water tank.

You find yourself checking out other customer's veins in grocery
waiting lines.

You avoid unhealthy looking shoppers in the mall for fear that
they will drop near you and you'll have to do CPR on your day off.

Your finger has gone places you never thought possible.

You have seen more penises than any prostitute.

If you are not a nurse and have been sent this by a friend who is,

it's just to help you understand our mind set and questionable mental
status/sanity. Most of the time we function in spite of this sick
sense of humor, fairly normally and very responsibly. Scary, huh?????
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Senior Pie Chart

More blasted statistics.

Getting older has its drawbacks, but I guess there aren't too many good alternatives to getting older. Whenever you see a gathering of seniors, it is an even bet they are talking about everything that is wrong with them. You know, the usual, memory, urinary problems, knees, eyesight, etc.Well, I am a senior and I absolutely refuse to discuss these issues with everyone else. If I have a problem, I find a solution. It is not always the solution that I like, but I handle it the best way I know and I don't discuss it with every person I see on the street that is past 62. No sir.... With this in mind, I bought myself a new scooter. I wanted something that was easy on gas and could zip me to the store and about town. This seems to meet my EVERY need. I love it!
Remember: Senior Citizens Are Valuable We are more valuable than any of the younger generations: We have silver in our hair. We have gold in our teeth. We have stones in our kidneys. We have lead in our feet and. We are loaded with natural gas


~Sarah~

Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Quasimodo were all talking one day.

Sleeping Beauty said, 'I believe myself to be the most beautiful girl
in the world.'

Tom Thumb said, 'I must be the smallest person in the world.'

Quasimodo said, 'I absolutely have to be the most disgusting person in
the world.'

So they all decided to go to the Guinness Book of World Records to have
their claims verified.

Sleeping Beauty went in first and came out looking deliriously happy.
'It's official, I AM the most beautiful girl in the world.'

Tom Thumb went next and emerged triumphant, 'I am now officially the
smallest person in the world.'

Sometime later, Quasimodo comes out looking utterly confused and
says.'Who the h--- is Rosie O'Donnell?

Ouch!

~Sarah~