How to fill time in retirement

 Here are the latest six books that I have read, making 32 for the year 2023 out of a goal of 36 books. I should complete my goal but I do have a few large books that are in my bucket list. Two of the latest 6 books are from the bucket list, while the other 4 are ones I either checked out from the library or I bought at Barnes & Noble. Last year I was introduced to this author and read three of her novels.  I found this one, The Singer's Gun, at Barnes & Noble and decided to add it to my collection. I will admit this book was very entertaining and I gave it a 2.5 (Good to Great). This was Emily's second novel, published in 2009. I think her fourth novel, Station Eleven , is her best so far. They made that one into a mini-series on HBO which I have not seen. From my bucket list, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next , is a classic by Ken Kesey and published in 1962. Most people have seen the movie with Jack Nicholson. I could not remember if I had read the book before, bu

 This past week I made a visit to the Brevard Zoo. The temperature was in the low 70s and the sun was out. As an annual member, I try to visit twice a month. One of the perks is that Members can enter at 9 AM, a half hour before they officially open. The benefit of this is to see the animals as they are being brought out for the day, and sometimes playful interchanges between the animals and the keepers. On this day, there were plenty of impalas out but there were no giraffes, zebras or rhinos. I have seen the zebras and giraffes come out, but I had never seen the rhinos arrive. They are usually in their pen or not. At the time I did not know, but this was the two female rhinos, Uzuri (22 years) and Kibibi (21 years). They seemed to know where they were going but the Impalas looked a little leery of the larger beasts. I do not know how to distinguish the two females, but one stopped for a shoulder rub on a tree. She did this for about a minute. For the last 18 months they have been try