Ponderings of a Scientist

New pictures of Addie are up on shutterfly.  We’ve had an adventurous few weeks:  Addie has started eating foods besides rice cereal (pears, squash, sweet potatoes, apple sauce and apple juice to date); Addie cut her first tooth - which is now fully through the gum, but is still a tiny bump, felt more then it’s seen; we all went to the Portsmouth Halloween Parade - Addie was a lobster, we were ourselves; we went hiking on Mt. Agamenticus (a small mountain/large hill in York Maine); I had my four month work review, got a raise, and was offered a full-time position to start around May or June.  Enjoy the picture show.

Do your civic duty; today is the day.  Remember if you don’t vote you don’t get to complain about taxes, school systems, potholes, growth and development, and so much more for the entire next year.

Our neurotic cat Dun, while still weary of Addison, is now obsessed with Addie’s socks.  Dun seems to get great pleasure out of swatting discarded baby socks literally throughout the house (I found a pair two floors separated from where I left them).  I often take Addie’s socks off as my office warms up in the morning.  I had taken to leaving the socks at the top of the stairs with other things that needed to go downstairs the next time I left the office.  But, now that Dun thinks they are perfect cat toys, I need to find a safer place for the socks.  I thought my desk would be a good place, but he steals them off of there too!  Compounding this issue, Addie knows how to, and often, removes her own socks while playing on the floor, leaving them in prime Dun stealing locales!  And I thought it was bad enough keeping the dryer from eating the tiny socks!  Ah silly, silly cat.  He’s still up for adoption if anyone wants him….