no snow ... it's more like a bamboo forest in here

I'm at home in Virginia, where my parents' office is filled to the brim with my mother's stuffed panda bears and panda memorabilia. My mother has taken up watching the San Diego Zoo's PandaCam. Apparently, the baby panda somersaults around while his mother keeps him in check, and the daddy panda spends hours shoveling bamboo into his mouth and then collapses and goes to sleep, face first, on a rock.