5786

Happy 5786!  It's Rosh Hashanah, and Mom prepared this wonderful feast to celebrate the Jewish New Year.  We had this plate of latkes, and we had matzah, and of course there were the apple slices and honey for tradition.  We watched a video or two about Rosh Hashanah, and then after that - Scooby Doo!  I was walking on that treadmill today, doing the virtual Scooby Doo challenge and guess what?  I've only got about two miles left to go until I'm done.  Pretty neat stuff!

Maddie had fun today with classes, called out in class to give answers at one point and almost caught off guard.  But she was quick, and pretty smart.  Marcom was fun too - Maddie was working on her project there, and there was a fun moment when she muttered a sarcastic comment that got everyone cracking up.

And this is an angry pear.  It was upset that Josh had the audacity to take a bite, and yes, things got worse.  These apples and pears have been so delicious.  We're still using our apples from the orchard visit a few weeks ago, and they've been so full and rich and juicy!

 

Ah, here I am out in the great outdoors!  Okay, not exactly, I'm in a patient room.  Today I had an appointment at the dermatologist, and that was a little adventure.  They took a sample of the skin on my finger, and we'll see what's up there.  It's a funny place with a funny name:  Dermatology Associates of North Georgia.  I really think someone wanted to desperately come up with the acronym DANG.  Literally everything there starts with the word DANG.  The forms I had to fill out beforehand were labeled DANG form.  The sign for the wifi password there was for DANG access.  So yeah, we were at the DANG office, visiting with the DANG staff, filling out DANG forms and soon getting a DANG prescription before heading out to the DANG parking lot.  

The other oddity of this place was the form I had to fill out online, including the unusual choices for fairly simple questions.   Like, pronouns:

What.  The heck.  Someday future generations will look back on this season in history and laugh their heads off at the sheer insanity of things like this.  This looks like a foreign language conjugation chart for verbs - does anyone really have expectations that people will keep up with this?  Anyway, I got home after that - and look what I saw on the back of this truck on the way home.  Can you see the insect walking stick?

That made me super happy.  Okay, so tonight after our movie, we read for a bit together, got the Plush Entourage down the hall and tucked in, and then it was time to get some sleep after prayers.  Getting tired here.  Happy New Year!  Time for some DANG sleep, yo.

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Okay, not so fast.  Tonight there was a bit of noise on the back deck, so I went out there and spotted three raccoons there, ready for a feast on our bird feeders.  One smarter - and larger - raccoon scurried (or waddled) down the stairs as soon as I walked out there, but two sort of froze, and then made their way to the right of the back deck, where there is no exit - unless you're a squirrel.  Which these were not. 

 So two of them climbed up the drain pipe, unbeknownst to me.  I walked to the corner of the house there, and out from the side of the corner popped two raccoons, their heads popping out like puppets.  They were looking at me to see what I would do.  They were clearly trapped - their poor choice was to climb up the gutter.  Of course, this was noisy and Mom was up by this point, thinking I was moving around furniture.  Eventually they decided to climb down, not a quiet thing to do.  The two large raccoons clawed and grasped their way down, down, down three levels of our house on that one drain pipe - we could hear them making their way down the whole time.  Eventually they made it.  And perhaps they learned not to visit this back deck, but we'll see.  It wasn't that I did anything aggressive.  I just came out there and waited for them to leave, but they chose the wrong direction - it was actually pretty funny.