Greetings from the Ecotarium

I spent a lot of Friday in the garage organizing things -- I had a bunch of papers that had been in a plastic under-bed drawer which then ended up in storage and are now in cardboard file boxes, plus I found a bunch of things I had no idea I still owned (oversize theater programs from our honeymoon, 1990s Pre-Raphaelite calendars, Princess Diana stuff my uncle collected) that need to be sorted. I also started reading The Book of Air and Shadows, a conspiracy theory around a lost Shakespeare manuscript that's kind of if Dan Brown had a great sense of humor. 

The Orioles beat the Royals with some eighth-inning heroics, then we watched Apple's excellent Friday night lineup: Sugar (a bit too violent for my film noir taste but very tightly written), Silo (I'm really enjoying the past-present split in this season's episodes, though I, like her friends, want the real Juliette back), and the season finale of Star City (still very dark and well done, and it better come back for a second season, though I did not expect the love story!). Here are some of the New England animals who live at the Ecotarium:

Greetings from the Zoo Bird Houses

Despite packing, I got to have a fairly social Wednesday starting with chat with 2/3 of my high school group in the morning. Then I did some packing, ate lunch, did some more packing, and watched some Rings of Power with Kristen and Laurie. After that, Paul and I took a walk to the beach and saw a large murder of crows making a racket in the trees by the lake, plus the eagle pair and a flock of annoyed honking geese. 

We watched the last three episodes of Wonder Man with Cheryl, which were extremely enjoyable (they even called it a bromance!). Then I was in the mood to remember how Trevor ended up there, so after dinner and TMNT night on The Masked Singer -- we ordered from Kanishka, since we had a coupon it would have been a shame to waste -- we watched Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Birds at the Woodland Park Zoo: