I Should Be Writing, But...
Sep. 2nd, 2011 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI should be writing, but I've gotten to the end of revising everything I had saved up to this point. Now I have to write entirely new (but lost) stuff, and I'm feeling a bit discouraged. I thought I might feel up to going back to it after a short interlude on the Interwebs.
Yesterday, Mason and I went to the Minnesota Zoo with Eleanor, despite the heat. It was a lot of fun, as zoo trips with Eleanor always are, but we all got pooped out a lot quicker thanks to the brutal heat. Mason, at least, had his swim trunks so he could play in the sprinkler park by the entrance to the Grizzly Coast exhibit. The grown-up, alas, did not think to pack a change of clothes.
We saw some cool animals. I mostly refrained from taking many pictures, because I was enjoying just hanging out with Eleanor and Mason. But I did get this awesome shot of a wild turkey that wandered into the Minnesota Trail.
And, this amazing shot of a snoozing Amur leopard:
However, probably the coolest thing was watching the grizzly bear who was trying to fish salmon out of the pond. S/he walked along the bottom. Someone else watching made the observation that she seemed to be trying to kick the salmon up closer to her front paws, so she could grab them. Everyone wondered why she wouldn't just dive down and nab them, but perhaps she didn't know how (I think all the bears there were raised in captivity.) Anyway, it was utterly fascinating. Mason and Eleanor and I watched her for several minutes.
We also had an open house at Mason's school. Not much to report about that, except that Mason's new teacher seems like a winner. Fingers crossed for a good year for him in 3rd (and, because the school loops, 4th) grade!
Yesterday, Mason and I went to the Minnesota Zoo with Eleanor, despite the heat. It was a lot of fun, as zoo trips with Eleanor always are, but we all got pooped out a lot quicker thanks to the brutal heat. Mason, at least, had his swim trunks so he could play in the sprinkler park by the entrance to the Grizzly Coast exhibit. The grown-up, alas, did not think to pack a change of clothes.
We saw some cool animals. I mostly refrained from taking many pictures, because I was enjoying just hanging out with Eleanor and Mason. But I did get this awesome shot of a wild turkey that wandered into the Minnesota Trail.
And, this amazing shot of a snoozing Amur leopard:
However, probably the coolest thing was watching the grizzly bear who was trying to fish salmon out of the pond. S/he walked along the bottom. Someone else watching made the observation that she seemed to be trying to kick the salmon up closer to her front paws, so she could grab them. Everyone wondered why she wouldn't just dive down and nab them, but perhaps she didn't know how (I think all the bears there were raised in captivity.) Anyway, it was utterly fascinating. Mason and Eleanor and I watched her for several minutes.
We also had an open house at Mason's school. Not much to report about that, except that Mason's new teacher seems like a winner. Fingers crossed for a good year for him in 3rd (and, because the school loops, 4th) grade!