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:

Greetings from Chihuly Garden and Glass

Don't look for excitement here because a lot of my day again involved laundry and chores, though I also had fun with my usual Wednesday online chat groups -- my high school friends, one of whom had an insane weekend with unplanned travel that made mine seem completely stress-free, then Kristen and Laurie, with whom I watched the first half of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. 

It was already after sunset when we took a walk, so we only saw one bunny, and we had a quick dinner, then I watched last week's Strange New Worlds with Cheryl (as usual Kirk 1, Evil Admirals 0, and it's nice having a second Kirk and Uhura being awesome). Now we're watching Sunday's Lanterns, which is extremely violent. Chihuly Nights at Garden and Glass in Seattle:

Greetings from Edmonds

We woke up to Seattle rain on Sunday, but it cleared up by mid-morning, when we headed to Edmonds to meet Cahaya's parents for brunch at Salt & Iron in Edmonds. After excellent food and some catching up, they headed out for weekend work and we walked down to the water, where the tide was coming in but we still managed to see lots of anemones and a few hungry gulls; then we walked around some of the shops, bought looseleaf tea and kitchen stuff, and headed back to Daniel's house mid-afternoon.

After feeding the dogs, we put them in the car and took them to Washington Park Arboretum, where we had a good long walk and successfully prevented them from chasing squirrels and bunnies. We dropped them back off at the house and walked to Zagol, one of four Ethiopian restaurants on one strip in Central District, and ate excellent shiro wot, lentils, and various meat dishes for those who eat meat. We got back to the house around 9 p.m., played Chai, and had to start getting our packing organized.

Greetings from the Cottage er Fenway

Quick post after extra-innings Red Sox victory over the Mariners at Fenway Park's Heated Rivalry night, which included game jerseys, exclusive drink cups currently selling for five times what we paid for them on eBay, author Rachel Reid throwing out the first pitch, and lots of awesome photo opportunities, plus all the usual joys of a Red Sox game (the Monster, enthusiastic fans even when losing, "Sweet Caroline" etc.). 

Before the game we went into Boston, rode the Swan Boats in Boston Public Garden, walked a bit past Boston Common, had a picnic on a bench in the park, then walked up Commonwealth Avenue to see the permanent statues and the temporary Great Elephant Migration display before we walked to Fenway Park and waited in line for over an hour with many delightful Heated Rivalry fans dressed for the occasion exchanging bracelets and cookies!

Greetings from the Franklin Park Zoo

We had a busy awesome Sunday with Cheryl, starting with a drive to the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, where we met Adam and Haley to walk around the fairy houses and see the sheep and goats brought in to trim the daffodil fields. Then we went to Panera in Leominster for lunch before going to see Coyote vs. Acme, which is a joy -- lots of Looney Tunes in jokes, lots of actors having fun, lots of swipes at Applemazon. 

We had dinner at The Friendly Toast in Chestnut Hill, then drove into Boston past the arboretum to the Franklin Park Zoo for the Boston Lights lantern exhibit, where we met Marilyn by the entrance. Inside, we saw leopards, penguins, jellyfish, horses, lemurs, and many other light animals, plus cranes, kangaroos, and camels who could be spotted sleeping in their enclosures behind the light displays. And my dad is out of the hospital!

Greetings from Echobrook Nursery

It was raining when we woke up and pouring by mid-morning, so we had a fairly quiet local Sunday, though it was fun. We visited Echobrook Nursery, a local garden and landscape store in and around a pretty house, and looked at lots of flowers and planters before we picked out a pair of stone rabbit garden fixtures so we can always see bunnies outside the house. We also stopped at Whole Foods and Shaw's for food for the week, and it had stopped raining by the time we were finished.

 

So we took a walk and saw eight neighborhood bunnies when we got home as well as our new stone ones, plus we saw the end of the Red Sox game, in which they managed to hold on to a lead to win (the Orioles did not have as good a day). After dinner Cheryl and I watched The Vampire Lestat's "One Night Only: Live" concert, which was awesome though too short, and afterward we watched the new episode of Lanterns, which I'm liking though it's very blokey so far.