One of the very affordable things leisure activities that viridis_ama and I enjoy is going to the local zoo.  We discovered that the zoo-for-two annual passes (at $55) were almost the equivalent of stealing, so we'd been getting them for years ( Read more... )

I found out the sad news on atara's journal this morning.

Debby is the polar bear in the Winnipeg zoo, and also the oldest living polar bear in captivity, and she is now showing signs of her age catching up with her.  Our bahr is dying.Amanda and I frequent the zoo pretty often (made incredibly easy with the inexpensive year passes that are available ( Read more... )

This evening Thomas phoned me, mostly just to see what was going on, and to also let me in on an interesting bit of news ( Read more... )