Queens Botanical Garden
Apr. 22nd, 2026 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silver_chipmunkToday I got up at 10:00 and had breakfast and coffee, and thought about what I should do today. I decided to have the trip I couldn't on Monday, and go to the Queens Botanical Gardens. So I showered and dressed and set out.
It was a sort of grey, overcast day, I would have preferred sunny, but it wasn't too cold. The gardens are beautiful now, lots of tulips, blossoming trees of various types, and the lilacs are starting to bloom.
I saw lots of squirrels, robins, a blue jay, a pair of mallard ducks, a school of goldfish, and two cats, presumably from the houses across the street from the gardens.
I walked through most of the gardens and then went to the gift shop where I bought granola bars, and an "advice from a hummingbird" tee shirt. I figure I'll wear it up at the cottage because of the hummingbirds.
Then I finished a the last bits I hadn't walked through, and headed home.
I had great bad luck with the buses, but finally I got a 44, only to be told when we got to Kissena Blvd that the next stop would be the last before the Bronx! The driver said it was a "school bus", I have no idea what that means.
Anyway, I got off there and walked to Roosevelt Ave, where there is a small place I had noticed that sells Chinese buns and similar stuff. I got a fried pork bun for $4 which was juicy and delicious. That was lunch.
I got another 44 bus home, it was about 4:00, and I went and lay down and puttered on my phone til just before 6:00. Then I went out to the living room and calledmashfanficchick to ask zer if ze minds if I stay overnight tomorrow.
Ze said OK so I will be doing that because on Friday I'm going to the funeral of the father of R from my Saturday meeting. She came to Oldest Brother's cremation so it's only right. And the funeral is twice as long a trip from my place as it is frommashfanficchick's. Plus we can stay up later if I don't have to worry about going home, so it's win/win.
Anyway, it had been arranged our D&D game was going to start a half an hour late. So I Teamed the FWiB and we were able to talk til 830 as usual.
Then we played the game, which was more fighting bugbears and rescuing prisoners. It went the usual two hours despite starting late, so we ended almost 10:30. Then I fed the pets and made my own dinner.
And then I started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. The Botanical Gardens.
3. Tasty pork bun.
4.mashfanficchick
5. My gaming group.
6. Bed soon.
It was a sort of grey, overcast day, I would have preferred sunny, but it wasn't too cold. The gardens are beautiful now, lots of tulips, blossoming trees of various types, and the lilacs are starting to bloom.
I saw lots of squirrels, robins, a blue jay, a pair of mallard ducks, a school of goldfish, and two cats, presumably from the houses across the street from the gardens.
I walked through most of the gardens and then went to the gift shop where I bought granola bars, and an "advice from a hummingbird" tee shirt. I figure I'll wear it up at the cottage because of the hummingbirds.
Then I finished a the last bits I hadn't walked through, and headed home.
I had great bad luck with the buses, but finally I got a 44, only to be told when we got to Kissena Blvd that the next stop would be the last before the Bronx! The driver said it was a "school bus", I have no idea what that means.
Anyway, I got off there and walked to Roosevelt Ave, where there is a small place I had noticed that sells Chinese buns and similar stuff. I got a fried pork bun for $4 which was juicy and delicious. That was lunch.
I got another 44 bus home, it was about 4:00, and I went and lay down and puttered on my phone til just before 6:00. Then I went out to the living room and called
mashfanficchick to ask zer if ze minds if I stay overnight tomorrow. Ze said OK so I will be doing that because on Friday I'm going to the funeral of the father of R from my Saturday meeting. She came to Oldest Brother's cremation so it's only right. And the funeral is twice as long a trip from my place as it is from
mashfanficchick's. Plus we can stay up later if I don't have to worry about going home, so it's win/win.Anyway, it had been arranged our D&D game was going to start a half an hour late. So I Teamed the FWiB and we were able to talk til 830 as usual.
Then we played the game, which was more fighting bugbears and rescuing prisoners. It went the usual two hours despite starting late, so we ended almost 10:30. Then I fed the pets and made my own dinner.
And then I started here.
Gratitude List:
1. The FWiB.
2. The Botanical Gardens.
3. Tasty pork bun.
4.
mashfanficchick5. My gaming group.
6. Bed soon.
