In Kenya: Hippos for our Hippo Lawn


	In Kenya: Hippos for our Hippo Lawn
madame travels
1-25-2009 7:42 PM
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1-26-2009 4:49 PM
tanyamm
Imagine , a hippo on your lawn. That is so neat!
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5aa28722-f1e9-433b-93a7-088d18552e1c/3639C18E-DCF2-41DE-A463-8A01A4FDE708/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html" href="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wildernessdiary.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/2BC5E22A-B8BC-4BAA-A270-1597760A5A47" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><P>Despite the dry, hot months we’ve been having, Ian has succeeded in nurturing our lawn – with the aid of a couple of strategically placed, ever so persistent sprinklers - and yes, we really can call it a lawn now, rather than a few hopeful tufts of grass! You might remember our plan was to have a conventional lawn up around the house (and it’s done a wonderful job in softening the look of the house, below), and then on the <A href="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/hippo-lawn">Hippo Lawn</A>, to let the wild grasses grow really wild, and wait for a hungry, grateful horde of hippos….which didn’t come and didn’t come, despite the star grass growing thick and tall (some of it is waist high)…</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/0EF0A4F0-D0FB-4851-AF9F-0617A3CEEEDC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html">star grass</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/B88BD201-D91B-41BF-8F0F-825BA889571B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/EB862DA6-0353-46A3-8D59-D3FEE1C6122C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/B247C507-0C8D-41D1-8B04-6CAAFD358039" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html">And then all of a sudden – and to our great delight! - one night about ten days ago, we heard a sound outside our bedroom window in the middle of the night, much like an over-sized horse munching on lush green grass. A hippo at last for our Hippo Lawn!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/0E41293D-D7A7-42CD-B4A2-5E784ACC8A82" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/4280B35F-2BFB-4B8D-8339-146D4E78665D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wildernessdiary.com/journal/2009/1/16/whatever-the-weather-hippos-for-our-hippo-lawn.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wildernessdiary.com/img/7E9DF690-4B59-4635-AD47-36538B956E77" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3639C18E-DCF2-41DE-A463-8A01A4FDE708/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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