We had a pretty sleepy end of summer. Not a lot of activities and much hanging around. We took a day trip to the Ho rain forest and saw Tante Rachel at her chocolate factory. That was fun except the factory isn't gluten free, so Teddy couldn't eat any. Afterward we went for Thai food, and we all ate pretty much everything, and we liked it. As long as we can make sure the restaurant makes gluten free stuff (there's that thing again), we all had a good time.
The Hi-Ho's (High Holidays) came and went, and the Sukkot. We had four dinners in the sukkah, and only one got rained out. Papa still ate all his meals in the sukkah, but sometimes very very fast. Mostly he's been obsessively following his beloved Oakland A's on their march to the playoffs. The A's gave him a nice gift today, besides the 9-0 victory, thanks to Auntie Shelley--see below.
Sorry for the delay--no excuses, but here are pics of the last two months.
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Papa scored that OLD Color Classic Macintosh running system 7, which he loaded up an old favorite game called "Crystal Quest" on. It made really funny sounds, but the computer was wonky and eventually refused to boot up any more. Stinky 20 year old computer.
On our way to the Ho, we stopped at what we thought was the beach, but it turned out to be a bluff.
Papa wouldn't even let us climb down. Hmmmph.
So we climbed over barriers and looked out over shear drops on perilous cliffs.
Then we got to the rain forest, and it wasn't raining. We want our money back.
There was a lot of moss however. Somebody is obviously falling behind on their tree tidying.
Mossy moss moss. Or maybe they are green arms out to grab unsuspecting carbon life forms. Hmmm.
Okay, while this looks like a volcano, it's just a really cool could.
This is glacial runoff on going thru the rain forest. It was all very picturesque. And we got to throw stones.
Speaking of stones, LeeAndra came thru town on her way to Sharon, MA for the Hi-Ho's with Auntie Iris, and papa was inspired by the memory of LeeAndra and Bruce's delicious canned plums to harvest the plums on the backyard plum stump. Actually, he sent Mommy down to harvest the plums and put LeeAndra to work with a paring knife.
Sukkot time--doesn't it look festive and inviting? We bring in chairs if we like you.
So Shelley asked the A's Manager, Bob Melvin, to get a signed bat for papa for his upcoming birthday and celebrate how big an A's fan he is, and Bob came thru in a big way. It even made papa cry, but that's not so hard to do.
It's a beautiful bat that is going to place of honor in papa's man cave. Wow! LET'S GO, OAKLAND!!! It's October baseball for the A's, and that's the best birthday present of all!
