My family and dear California friend, Grammy Pam loved visiting the Frontier Culture Museum and Virginia Wildlife Center in Staunton, VA. It was one of those glorious Virginia Fall days.
The Frontier Culture Museum showcases English, Irish and German Old World farms and then farmsteads in the US from 1820 and 1850 with guides in period dress who are cooking, farming and answering questions. They also rent golf carts and red wagons that can make it easier to get around. My monkeys had a great time and especially enjoyed the animals. My husband, the closet farmer, really enjoyed it. I am going to end up on a farm.
The Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro was having one of three open houses all year and it was yesterday while we were over in the Shenandoah Valley anyway. The Wildlife Center is a non-profit group that treats wildlife that needs help. They get tons of baby squirrels, baby rabbits, birds of prey and the occasional bear, bobcat and deer. What a great place and great group of people that are really helping. We took a 90 minute tour and saw numerous birds of prey that they use for elementary school programs. No bear or bobcats were in residence.
I was almost talked into driving 2 hours out of our way to return an opossum to the wild near Lexington, VA. I think over the next month, I’ll be taking them my 72G former saltwater fish tank for their use as it is a great dust collector in my basement. I am going to check in with them when I am in the area to see if they need help with future releases, the kids were dying to release the possum.
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