Greetings from Hobbiton

Very quick post, just got off Thursday chat after watching the season finale of Strange New Worlds, which I loved. My day involved things like dyeing my hair and doing a bunch of chores, plus taking a walk before the nor'easter that's expected to make the weekend chaos rolls in. I have company coming and tickets to baseball games that may get rescheduled or canceled, so here's hoping! Halfling things from Shirefolk Weekend at the Connecticut Renfaire:

Greetings from Constellation Beach

My Wednesday was fairly social. Paul worked from home because they were testing the fire alarms at his office, so we had lunch together. I chatted with Kay and Hildy on Google Meet after lunch, did some photo organizing, read some Menewood, then watched the end of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with Kristen and Laurie. 

The Orioles were playing a double-header so I kept an eye on that (they swept the Blue Jays), and after veggie apple cider beef stew for dinner, we watched the Red Sox beat the Guardians. Now we're watching Slow Horses with Andor's Syril being very evil. Sea stars, cucumbers, crabs, and other creatures in the tidepools on Alki:

Greetings from the Joust

I had a quiet Tuesday morning folding laundry and organizing some stuff, then we had lunch and I talked to Chris. I had a project to finish in the afternoon, we went for a walk, only one member of my DS9 group could come tonight so we chatted for a while. 

We watched the Red Sox game, and now we're watching Mayday, which is quite funny and retro, like a combination of James Bond and Misery. I ran late chatting with Daniel in Malaysia, so here are some quick pics of the joust at the Connecticut Renfaire: 

Greetings from the Connecticut Renfaire

A lot of my Monday was chores -- Renfaire laundry, regular laundry, trying to figure out why the cat keeps sneaking down the basement, did she spot something behind the washing machine or just discovered that it's a good hidey hole -- but I finished editing and uploading my Tarot cards so I can print them, and I enjoyed the cool weather, going out several times to see the bunnies that are moving in closer now that summer is ending. 

We didn't fast for Yom Kippur, so had a pretty ordinary veggie chicken parm dinner. We had the Orioles game (late-inning victory!) and later Monday Night Football on, but I was only half-paying attention, working on a fannish project with a friend and talking to a couple of other friends -- one about sports, another about a terrible family situation she just discovered. On a happier note, Nazgul and smoking ice cream at the Connecticut Renfaire:

Greetings from Fitchburg

It rained all day Sunday and stayed below 60 degrees. We thought maybe we were going to see Adam's wife and family perform a concert at a Fitchburg park, but the outdoor performance was canceled due to weather, so instead we picked up food from the Daily Bagel and brought it to Adam and Haley's house, where we ate and played Wingspan with them, supervised by Pepper.

 

We talked to my parents, stopped at Shaw's on the way home for food for the week, fed the cats, ate veggie burgers and poutine for dinner, I did some reading, and we watched this week's slightly anticlimactic Lanterns around the Red Sox playoff-clinching celebration (they lost, but so did Houston, and there was much beer-spraying and shirtless hugging) and the Orioles game.

Greetings from the Shire

Quick post after all day in Connecticut mostly at the Renfaire's Shirefolk Day with Kristen and Laurie plus the latter's husband and son -- there was food, jousting, royalty, smoking ice cream, lots of Hobbits, one of the Nazgul, and lots of fun. Afterward we went back to Laurie and Hal's house for pizza and pie. Now we're watching Dark Matter after a scare in which we thought one of the cats ate part of a chocolate chip cookie, but it looks like she just broke it into pieces and didn't eat much chocolate. More pics when I sort them! 

Greetings from the Garden

I had a pretty quiet Friday working on cleaning up the black and white Tarot cards I found yesterday, plus enjoying the beautiful weather, though we saw a dead bunny on our walk in a spot where we've often seen him munching the grass, so I'm sad about that. The trees are starting to change and I'm not ready for that; I feel like we barely had summer. 

I watched Strange New Worlds again with Cheryl, then we watched Supergirl, which was okay. I didn't dislike it as much as some of the internet did, but it made me miss the early seasons of the TV show, which had a sense of humor along with the pathos. We saw some animals at Washington Park Arboretum but the dogs were sad not to get to chase them:

Greetings from Washington Park Arboretum

Quick post after Thursday night chat while watching Stuart Fails To Save the Universe -- an episode that's particularly a propos tonight because I was just talking about when I worked at AnotherUniverse and the guys could argue for an hour about whether Captain Cold could beat Mr. Freeze. 

Earlier while looking down the basement for a box with cards, I found the black and white original copies of our Star Trek Tarot deck, which I had really wanted to scan but thought were lost forever, so I wound up making it a scanning afternoon with that and all the summer mail and stuff. 

I talked to my parents, took a walk, we ordered vegan Chinese for dinner and watched "Once La'an a Time" -- this week's over the top but fun Strange New Worlds -- before chat, during which we had the Red Sox win on in the background. Late summer-early fall at Washington Park Arboretum: