Drinking hot chocolate and watching Yellowstone marathon.

Not true. The zoo owner is well regarded by the animal cruelty task force lawyer who prosecuted cases across the state. She knows the zoo director bc she has placed rescued exotics in the past there. She has given the zoo high commendation for the care they provide. The lead vet there is also a pretty big deal in breeding some kind of wild cat, maybe leopards iirc, and releasing them into the wild.

Zoo's usually bum me out too, which is how I struck up the conversation for her when we served on the animal welfare grants committee at CF of Richmond.

Turned on the baseboard heater in the kitchen for the first time.... ever, but only because most of the water lines in the house are in the crawlspace under there. Was debating about chancing it, but the electric bill for a few days of extra heating is far cheaper than potential plumbers bill should anything happen.

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I noticed all the houses had power but people don't use porch lights much anymore so the streets are really dark w/o the street lights. Do you know if they're out in the Fan too?

Looks like that’ll hit the movie choices list this weekend!

Playing some Red Dead Redemption 2 and sipping hot cocoa

That's next week for us. We're binge watching some documentary on Egypt with my Father, and occasional overs of women's T20 cricket which I find soothing in ways baseball isn't (to me), and I don't know why yet.

Is there a good source of information about the RMZ that gives any detail about why it's not great other than it being part of ZAA? I've seen people say the Richmond Zoo is bad but never really give any explanation as to how they got there.

My mom has a membership because she lives down the road and loves going on walks since the hills are good exercise. We've gone once and my daughter was overjoyed at seeing all the animals. If I knew there was mistreatment of animals or something else that would give me pause I'd want to know about it so we wouldn't go back and I would tell my mom to give up her membership.

They’re adorable. I’m a huge sucker for tabbies. Mine would do the same and sometimes I’d just wrap the paper around them and tape it like they were a present. Not tightly, and they’d then run around and leave me alone for a few minutes. Rinse and repeat. Wasted paper. Totally worth it, especially if your cats have a sense of humor.

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This cold weather reminds me of the 90's. I really loved frosted tips.

Watching the Caps and wrapping presents. Happy to have stayed inside all day.

It is! I was excited to see the actual location on my quest out to Petco for the cat who only wants wet food. Also drove by that nonsense right there, a cop had shown up by the time I was coming back to park there and warn people with the flashy lights.

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I have seen a rooster or chicken there a few times between the fence and the road.

I literally learned to drive on two inches of ice, having grown up in Chicago. I try my best to never drive here when it is icy.

I do love the occasional trip back home in the winter, though. Driving through a snowstorm on the highway with people who do know how to do it is one of my life's small pleasures!

Just watching some Big Bang Theory on TV.... but did yall hear the wind today? Its still going strong currently. Blew away one of the tarps in the backyard.

It'd be really great if every zoo could be AZA accredited. I've seen a lot of zoos without any accreditation and they are really problematic. The ZAA provides a way for a lot of smaller zoos to improve their standards of care without the expense of the AZA (it costs money to join and stay accredited).

This dank stew I made yesterday.

Zoological Association of America

>The Zoological Association of America (ZAA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 dedicated to responsible wildlife management, conservation, and education. The ZAA is headquartered in Punta Gorda, Florida, and accredits zoos and aquariums within the United States.

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Richmond Metro Zoo is a for profit business that is "accredited" through the ZAA. Which was started after another zoo lost their accreditation through the existing AZA organization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_Association_of_America

Perhaps the bamboo.

I feel like max's on broad is large and largely empty typically

Apple Bees but even that is pushing it.

Wish I could … no power