I like toys, but I’m an adult who lives in a small condo, so I need to behave myself when it comes to bringing new friends into our home. I made an agreement with myself to try and limit my stuffed toy purchases to two per year, one for each Ubuntu release.
Even so, I now have quite the collection.
These toys serve the purpose of brightening up our events with some fun, and enjoy the search for a new animal to match Mark Shuttleworth’s latest animal announcement. Truth be told, my tahr is a goat that I found that kind of looks like a tahr. The same goes for my xerus. My pangolin ended up having to be a plastic toy, though awareness about the animal (and conservation effords) has grown since 2012 so I’d likely be able to find one now. The quetzal was the trickiest, I had to admit defeat bought an ornament instead, but I did find and buy some quetzal earrings during our honeymoon in Mexico.
I’ve had fun as well and learned more about animals, which I love anyway. For the salamander I bought a $55 Hellbender Salamander Adoption Kit from the World Wildlife fund, an organization my husband and I now donate to annually. Learning about pangolins led me to visit one in San Diego and become a made me aware of the Save Pangolins organization.
It is now time for a Yakkety Yak! After some indecisiveness, I went with an adorable NICI yak, which I found on Amazon and shipped from Shijiazhuang, China. He arrived today.
Here he is!
…though I did also enjoy the first photo I took, where trusty photobombed us.
Thursday, May 12th, 2016 at 2:21
Nice of you to publish you hobby. Thanks
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 at 5:38
Looks great :)
It would be nice if Canonical officially release these toys. I would surely buy them.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 at 10:36
They did release an official Lucid Lynx, but I think it sat around in their shop for some time post 10.04 so it might have soured them to the idea. Plus, shipping is pretty expensive here to the states, I had to really want that lynx (and I did!).