• kangaroos (tolerated brief stroking)
• a tight huddle of six ring-tailed lemurs
• red panda trying to sleep in a windblown tree
• sleeping snow leopard
• tiger actually up and doing things
• sunbear ditto (the only bear in Aotearoa, apparently)
• meerkats! climbing on us! (we had a paid "close encounter")
• misc. others

And the rain mostly held off until we were at lunch afterwards. \o/

• read through story A and return to beta
• write story B from the zero draft I made yesterday ✅
• catch up on comments ✅
• catch up on email ✅
• political submission! *stabs things* ✅
• read ✅ (briefly)
• Yuletide canon review
• play with coloured pencils ✅
• change vacuum cleaner bag ✅
• make/eat dinner ✅
• early night ✅

I might manage four of those? The last two are non-negotiable.

ETA: Some of those check marks are from over the weekend. :-)