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 Home

Whole day of unpacking, laundry, getting the key back from the cat-sitter, and other post-trip chores after jet-lag oversleeping and convincing the cats we did not abandon them, of which only treats seem to convince them. 

We managed a quick walk before dinner, then my DS9 group watched "The Way of the Warrior" -- the double-episode season four premiere with Worf and many Klingons (these days I can laugh about the Kira-Dax holodeck storyline but I hated it originally). 

We caught up on last Friday's excellent Dark Matter and now we're watching last Thursday's Strange New Worlds -- I like the Kirk family history but Pike kind of feels like a guest star on his own show. Pics from yesterday in Washington:

Greetings from Fenway Park

I did a bunch of computer stuff on Thursday morning -- had to clear a lot of photos off my phone, catch up on some news, do a bit of research -- and I did some reading around lunch. Then in the afternoon I had my annual mammogram, which hopefully went okay; though I had double checked twice to make sure my records had been sent from the place in Redmond, they didn't have them, and they need them to interpret the new one, so hopefully they'll get there sooner rather than later but they won't tell me anything until they do. 

We took a long walk when we got home (it was a four bunny, two frog day), then met with a woman we're hoping will cat-sit when we travel in the future (Katniss and Effie appeared to approve). We watched this week's Strange New Worlds, which started goofy and fun but ended up a lovely critique of how "The Inner Light" ends. We talked to both our fathers and after dinner we watched the Red Sox-Orioles game, in which I'm not sorry Adley hit two home runs, around Thursday chat. But speaking of the Red Sox, from the weekend:

Greetings from Massachusetts

Quickie, Cheryl is here and we're watching Strange New Worlds after a crazy day during which she endured many, many hours of flight delays and rerouting (we were supposed to pick her up in Worcester, we picked her up in Boston). I have a family member out of state in the hospital, so that's upsetting, and I talked to several relatives in the morning before cleaning the bathrooms and doing laundry in preparation for guests. We picked up Thai food and ate it with Adam and Haley before heading to the airport. More tomorrow!

Greetings from Yankee Candle

My entire Thursday morning was taken up with an ophthalmologist appointment. Since I'm a new patient, there were lots of forms and questions and calling my former doctor in Redmond because the records hadn't all been faxed. But he said things looked fine, the iridotomies I had a year ago were working, and he'd see me in a year, so that was all good, and we stopped at Shaw's for food on the way home for a late lunch. 

Strange New Worlds' "Off-Hour" was excellent -- so many original series deep cuts and a great science-focused disaster story. My whole Thursday night group made it to chat, now that one is back from traveling and one is logged in from out of the US, and now we're watching an episode of My Brilliant Career after most of Thursday Night Football. Here is the Bavarian Christmas Village at Yankee Candle in South Deerfield:

Greetings from Salem Heritage Days

I thought about going into Boston with Paul on Friday, but there was rain in the forecast and I wasn't in the mood for being damp and chilly on the train ride home. So instead I did chores around here, including some work in the garage (one more box emptied; I found Paul's baby book and some guitar strings from many years ago). We talked to my parents and took a long walk when he got home. 

My evening consisted of baseball (the Orioles and Red Sox both won) and rewatching Strange New Worlds' "Level Five Transporter Accident" which just gets funnier on a rewatch. Then we watched this week's very dark Silo, and now we're watching Avatar: The Last Airbender because we only just realized the second season was out. Crafters at Salem Heritage Days a couple of weeks ago: