Sunday, May 01, 2022

Greetings from Lakes Whetstone and Washingtonian

Saturday was a gorgeous day, so after some morning chores that included collecting all the floppy discs in the house for recycling and watching some of the later rounds of the NFL draft, we went to Gaithersburg to look for goslings and do a bit of shopping. We started at Lake Whetstone, where in addition to five families of geese, we saw many nesting crowned herons, turtles, crows, ducks, and red-winged blackbirds. Then we went to Washingtonian, which was having a sidewalk fair at which we bought a Baltimore crab made out of bottle caps, and the lake had more goslings plus ducklings, cormorants, turtles, and enormous koi. 

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I had to put away all the things I moved to excavate the floppy discs in the morning, then we had Impossible Burgers for dinner with some of the tea we got last weekend at Heron's Meadow. Then we watched Spider-Man: No Way Home, which we hadn't seen since it was in theaters, and it was once again wonderful, like a giant gift for having been a Spider-Man fan for so many years (I think the mistake The Amazing Spider-Man 2 made was not putting its Big Death in the middle like No Way Home did so the characters would have a chance to celebrate that person's life). On a related note, RIP Naomi Judd, whose loss is very sad.

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