More April Rehomings

Just imagine baboons 94, 95 and 96 have reached their new homes in the last week!

Meet Rose Le Babouin, she is a French speaking Canadian baboon who is now living in California with @BerniceBlu'Jae.  Rose is not just the largest baboon ever to be rehomed, she is bigger than me!!

Rose met her new family, including Bernice, the little baboon Cheeks, who came from Baboon HQ and another baboon who has been living with Bernice for longer.  He used to be the biggest baboon in the house but now he has to get used to being the middle sized baboon.

 

 

Rose has her own chair, and has been choosing perfumes with Bernice.

 

 



We can see Rose is enjoying the California sun after the long Canadian winter of 2013/14.

 

The next baboon to arrive didn't have to travel so far.  Betsey Pawood (named after a character in David Copperfield, Betsey Trotwood), arrived in Yorkshire, England, to live with @SallyJainW, very quickly.  We can see she is getting a lot of love and has many friends.

What a great hug!!  Good enough for any baboon!!  I think Betsey will be very happy there.  She also seems to have made a special friend, here they are watching television.

 

So quite a number of girl baboons rehomed in April 2014.  However, there was also another boy rehoming!!

 

CJ's (@PanthaQueen) baboon arrived very fast, he got all the way to California in four days!!  A record indeed!  He has told CJ his name is Bertram, which is a wonderful name, very English, it reminds me of Bertie Wooster.  It looks as though he is moving to a lovely neighbourhood, where he will enjoy the sun.

 

Just like Rose, Bertran wasted no time in getting some of that California sun.  CJ came to join him and they look like great friends already.

I am sure all of those baboons will be very happy.  I have two more rehomings underway, so that will make 98.  Nearly there!!

Thank you to everyone for rehoming baboons and for taking an interest in the rehomed baboons.

Gardening

Last autumn we had to have the roof repaired under our roof garden.  This was sad because it meant all of our plants and trees had to be removed.  Over the Easter holiday we decided to replant.

Hoppo and Chesney were given the job of planting the new plants because they are strong muscular baboons.

 

Then Edward, who is the gardening expert at Baboon HQ arranged the pots to ensure it looked nice and all the plants would get plenty of sunshine.

 

After all of his hard work Edward enjoyed sitting in the sun with the lavendar and shrub.

 

Now, a couple of weeks later, the boys can enjoy the sunshine in the garden.  Here are Jack, Yaya, Roko and Chesney.

 

Jack felt very Mediterranean with the lavendar.

 

Chesney was a little bit concerned that the rosemary didn't look as strong as he thought it should but we will see how it goes.

 

Roko loves climbing so he climed on the chimney pots, he has a way to go before he can see the sea but he'll get there.

The next thing will be to get the table and chairs outside so we can eat out there.  Yes, summer is nearly here!!

Baboons get smaller!!

Hi, no I haven't got any smaller but look at this!!

This is not all of the baboons at Baboon HQ but you may recognise some of these chaps, at the back from right to left we have me, Edward, Marley, Hoppo and Jack!!  You may not know Jack yet, he is a newer arrival, he was going to live in California but things went a bit wrong and he will live at Baboon HQ with us.  Anyway, all of us big  baboons are 22 inches (Hoppo might be a little more but we don't talk about that)!!

Then we have a row of smaller baboons.  Back in 2011 I was suprised when Roko (in front of me) turned up at Baboon HQ and was like me but only 14 inches.  Soon after that Denis and Austin rocked up around Christmas time and later Thierry joined us.  Just last autumn Chesney joined us look at him, what a handsome chap and lighter than the rest of us.  Well around two years ago we found Mini-Kolo (third row forward to the left) he is 11 inches and just what I needed to travel for me.  Lukaz turned up soon after that and I have also rehomed three baboons like them.  Aboooo at the end of that row is taller but very skinny.

But what I wanted to show you was the little chap in the front (in front of Lukaz), Tony.  I found him on eBay last week, he is only 8 inches.  So baboons like me are definitely getting smaller every year aren't they!! 

How much smaller will they get I wonder!!

April re-homings

Hi there!  I am pleased to say that two more baboons have reached their new homes before Easter.  The second to start his journey, but the first to arrive, travelled from our seaside home in the south of England, all the way to a new seaside home in the north of England.

Here is Bobby checking out his new view.

 

Here is Bobby meeting his new family, our dear friends @LUCKYBLUEYHONEY.  The first evening he was there he watched football with his new family and gave piggyback rides to them all.

 

Yes all at the same time!!

We can see he is part of the family, they all wish us Happy Easter.

 

I think Bobby looks very happy in his new home.

Bobby's sister Babs had a longer journey, she went all the way to Carolina in the US of A!!  To live with lovely @SamTheWatcher.

 

Well, it clearly didn't take Babs long to check out her new home and find some sweets (candy)!!

 

It looks as though Babs started getting on well with her new sisfurs right away.  Here she is getting to know Charlotte.

Well yes, Babs is a girl and she is set on becoming a southern belle so she went shopping.  She clearly has an eye for style, she bought these fetching disco earrings!

 

Hey the girl's got style!

Well that looks like two more happy rehomings don't you think?  There are four more rehomings underway.  So far 94 baboons have reached their new homes and the next four will make 98.  I really want to get to 100!  I was going to stop there, but as long as there are homeless baboons and pals who want to give them homes, I will carry on.

Let me know if you have room for a baboon, or even for another baboon.

HUGS HUGS HUGS Kolo

Presents

I have been a very lucky baboon this week.  Three presents have arrived at Baboon HQ for us baboons and Leroy.

Firstly some lovely blankets arrived from our dear friends D.Cunningham (@skye613), in Florida.  These lovely blankets are for the baboons who are waiting for homes.  As you can see the baboons tried them out and found them very snuggly and cosy.  I don't think they will ever want to move on now.  Thank you so much, the blankets are lovely.

 

Then some lovely presents arrived from lovely @NancyCakeFace in Houston, Texas.  Such lovely things, a Houston calendar that we can use next year, some yummy chocolates, a very funny fridge maget of Texas and a keyring of Houston.  My little brother Denis there has got hold of some monkey sticking plasters that were in the package.  He is the most likely baboon here to be the first to need those I can assure you, he has lots of scrapes!  The magnet is on the fridge and the keyring is holding my person's keys.  We are sharing the chocolates!!  Thank you so much Nancy for such lovely things.  You know I love Texas!!

 

Then yesterday some lovely chocolates arrived from those lovely 3 bears @LuckyblueHoney.  The chocolates are for me and @LeroySealion.  Look this one has my name on!!  Leroy is very interested in the chocolate bugs and bees!!  We will share them with all the baboons and lions of course!! Thank you so much dear Bears.

Thank you to all of you. HUGS HUGS HUGS

March Rehomings

I am pleased to say that four baboons have reached their new loving homes in the last two weeks.

All four left Baboon HQ on Saturday 8 March.  The first to arrive only had a short hop across the Solent to @lilliandarchie.

Hairy Harry started life in his new home by feeding the chickens.  Of course he had to prepare their food first.

 

 

Harry was allowed to use a knife to chop up the chicken's veggies, but not all baboons are safe to do this so check your baboon out before allowing the to use sharp knives.

 

Harry has proved to be a baboon of many talents.  He has been working in the hairdressing salon and yesterday he covered a chair.

 

 



Harry is a handsome chap as well as talented.  Of course after all that work Harry deserved a treat.

 

Yep well baboons and biscuits (cookies)!!

The next to arrive also travelled in England but went a bit further north to @WabbitWisdom.

 

Murphy also arrived after only two days travel, but he was rather tired and Wabbit let him sleep peacefully.

 

Wabbit is very kind to Murphy and gentle, even though Murphy was snoring.

The other two baboons were travelling to the US so they took a bit longer. 

Bernard arrived at @NancyCakeFace's house after nearly two weeks travel.

 

He was tired after all that travelling and took over Nancy's basket.  After that they did play though.

 

I think they started off by checking eachother out a bit.

 

Nancy let Bernard share her window, that is probably a good sign of friendship.

 

After exactly two weeks the final baboon arrived in Florida with @Skye613.  He joined their other adopted baboon Harry B Toes, they are cousins and you can see they are very fond of each other.  This new baboon was tired when he arrived and he hasn't revealed his name yet, but we will let you know when he does.

Thank you for reading and being interested in our baboons.  If you would like to rehome a baboon or another baboon please let me know.  All of these baboons were rehomed as a result of my last blog where people read about Rumney and thought they would like a baboon.

Spring

Hello, most of us in the northern hemisphere have had a hard winter.  We, in Europe, haven't had the extreme cold that our pals in the US and Canada have had, in fact its been strangely warm.   However, we have had storms and rain, rain, rain!  Suddenly the weather changed and we started to see the sunshine.  Little George from Baboon HQ decided to go out and investigate.

George hadn't been walking for very long when he came across these flowers.  He felt that was a good sign.

Nearby he found these lovely blue flowers.  This is good he thought, I'll carry on and see what else I can find!

The next thing George found was some snowdrops and these nice yellow flowers.  This was shaping up well, George decided Spring was here and he would go on.

George got as far as Quarr Abbey where the grounds were beautiful.  Here he found daffodils and primroses.

It is perhaps a little early for bluebells but George found some and some pinkbells as well.  There were also some white ones but his head is in front of them.  There was also a ladybird (ladybug) on the blue ones.

Well George is a baboon so when he found a tree full of apple blossom he had to climb it.

Finally on the way home he found something surprising.

 

Duck eggs for sale!!  George decided to investigate and climbed up to have a look.

 



He found duck eggs and quail eggs.  Well that's spring for you!  We hope to find lambs and calves soon but this walk was not one where you would do that.  George had a lovely Sunday morning.  Thank you for reading.  I'm sorry the flowers don't show up too well in the pictures but George want to show you that Spring will come for everyone.