January 26, 2013

►    Customer Feedback:   We received the following email from Lisa C:  “Thank you Anne-Marie.  I appreciate the pool purchase credit.  We are thrilled with the customer service at Seasonal and look forward to continuing business with you.  Take care.”

►    All new everything starts January 27.  Advertising and weekly specials:  “Entertain at Home”. Patio and Above Ground specials continue.  Billiard tables, Game tables, Bars, and Hot Tub sales begin.

►    Happy Birthday to Paul on Wednesday.

►    Animal Behavior, from the Hippo:

Latest Orangutan News:  (1)  Jungle Island zoo in Miami uses tricked-out iPads so that orangutans can order food by pointing at their choices on a screen.  As zookeeper Linda Jacobs noted, “They have all the intelligence they need (but not) developed vocal chords and voice boxes.”

(2)  A Taru Jurug Zoo official in Central Java, Indonesia, reported in July that “Tori,” its infamous, 13-year-old cigarette-smoking orangutan, had been moved with her boyfriend to an isolated island with recreational facilities so she could kick her nicotine habit.  At Taru Jurug, visitors kept enabling her by tossing her cigarettes.

►    Yet Another Senior Moment: A senior citizen said to his eighty-year old buddy:  “So I hear you’re getting married?”  “Yep!”  “Do I know her?”  “Nope!”“This woman, is she good looking?”  “Not really.”  “Is she a good cook?”  “Naw, she can’t cook too well.”  “Does she have lots of money?”  “Nope!  Poor as a church mouse.”  “Well, then, is she good in bed?”  “I don’t know.”  “Why in the world do you want to marry her then?”  “Because she can still drive!”