All I Want for Christmas is Zoo

My big idea for Covid Chrismas was to spend that morning at the Central Park Zoo BUT Christmas itself was very windy and rainy, so I went down to the zoo on the 26th instead. I got there right when it opened. It is not a big zoo, and even smaller when a few animals weren’t out while I was there. If the Lincoln Park Zoo can be free, I think the Central Park Zoo should be free, too. Anyway. Glad I went, glad I brought my 90mm lens. They have two extremely lively red pandas there and some very big snow leopards and a very stinky penguin house. And there’s a very cool great big snow monkey habitat…too bad only two monkeys were out enjoying it on this visit. Oh! And there’s a decent children’s zoo that even adults can go into. The sheeps and goats love those pellets!

Post zoo I did some park walking, saw that the Trumps have a bench? Wonder if they’ll spend much time sitting there come late January. Went and found the part of the fence with the leopards on the other side of it. Then I did midtown walking and wound up at Tacos No 1 for the first time since … I mean who even knows. May have been more than a year? Hadn’t had a taco that hit so nice in a while.

November 2020

It’s funny. I really thought I was going to have this November post ready to go by December 1st. Well. Here we are, he we go.

NOVEMBER 7:
Found myself in and around the village the night when the newspapers called the election. Was almost trampled by a jazz parade. Do not know why I dared the Washington Square crowds. Should have brought a book?

NOVEMBER 14: For Owen’s birthday I took a bit of a Midtown walk before stopping by Tara’s book signing in the park.

NOVEMBER 23: A little work crisis had me needing to run down to Wall Street that night. Took some pictures once the problem was cleared up.

NOVEMBER 27: Nice little walk to and through Inwood Hill Park? Why not!

And here is a family portrait I took representing my collection of gray New Balances

Coronavirus is kicking back in, there’s not much to be posting.

October 2020

With all my museum trips and my one hiking trip there hasn’t been a lot else to blog about every month, but I’ve dug up a few things I can report on from October that I haven’t already posted about.

One of them being a museum trip.

October 1: I had to hike into the Bronx to be finger printed, passed these two murals. It was almost the same walk that I took for my antibody test in, like, May or whatever it was.

October 3-4: For my General Conference cooking experiments I made pancakes myself for the very first time ever. And beef ragu on paperdalle for the first time ever.

October 8: I went downtown and picked up my mug from a former coworker at Goldman. I was surprised to see how many people seem to be doing office jobs now. I got street meat from my preferred Halal guy down there because my Korean cart guy was packing up when I arrived. Then I walked up to Soho and tried on things at Drakes and APC that perhaps I will buy myself when the winter sales hit. It will feel nice to spend money!

October 13-24: Some things I ate: A Frankenstein donut. A thing I call “Viking Plate.” Brussels sprout tacos. A broccoli casserole omelette.

October 25: There was a backhoe in the back of church this Sunday. And more monster donuts.

October 30: I had a little Halloween party to get to downtown. I dressed up as a vampire. But first I dipped into the Whitney for a bit. To have another look again.

October 31: Out a little bit on Halloween night. Nothing too spooky happened.