A Fish Story

WARNING: This post contains graphic content of the dissection of a fish. If you are squeamish or just don't like that kind of thing, you can read until my note below to stop.

Tonight we celebrate the Jewish New Year, and, like all things Jewish, we bring in the new year with style! That means songs, good company, wine, and lots and lots of food!

One of the traditional foods is gefilte fish (you can look it up here if you are unfamiliar with it). It's an acquired taste and is usually one of those things that you either hate or love. I really like it but discovered last year that the binder is matzah meal, which I can no longer eat. After much investigation online, I did find one brand that uses potato starch instead (yay!), but it was too late to order it and none of the local stores carry it. I was disappointed but thought I might try again at Passover when it is an even more common food.

Weekend Romping

The first weekend of Fall was warm and muggy, but we went romping anyway.

On Saturday we learned that some of the museums in the area were having a free one-day pass. We were planning on an Indian Lunch Buffet in the downtown, anyway, so we went to check out the UM Art Museum.

Fall Is Here!

In honor of the first day of Fall, I've changed the blog's banner, so if you're reading this via email or RSS, come check it out!

I read that the big leaf-change comes to Ann Arbor around the middle of October, but we've already seen some evidence in the trees around us.

Domino's Pizza Has a Farm, D-O-M-I-NO

No, seriously, Domino's Pizza has a farm!

Current Events

Jake is now fully immersed in the world of school. He leaves every day at 8am and doesn't return until 7pm most days, and 10pm on some days. It's a lot of work, but I know he's doing a good job. He spends a lot of time at the Ross School of Business:

Ross School of Business lobby/study area.

Weekend Stories

We did a lot of things this weekend, but I forgot the camera for some of them...

Friday night we attended an event called "Shabbat in the Park," hosted by the young adult group of the Ann Arbor Jewish community. Since the weather was still drippy and cold they moved the BBQ to the local Jewish Community Center (JCC), which happens to be right across the street from our house. This annual get together is a chance for new members of the community to meet other Jews and have a nice Shabbat dinner. Here is my one picture from the evening:

Rain Is A Good Thang!

The weather has changed abruptly. In my last post I talked about the 95° Saturday we had, followed by a hail storm. Sunday was cooler, in the mid-70's, and mostly cloudy. But as of Monday (Labor Day = the last day of summer), it's been raining. And raining. And then raining some more. And it's not the warm summer rain we've been enjoying either. It's cold and gray and dark and wet.

It's been a lot of this:

GO BLUE! ...or not?

What do you get when you combine this

with this

and this?

Tidbits

I have some random pictures today, so thought I'd just mush them all together into one post. Also, I've posted three new insects on the Fauna page, they are marked "NEW!" so they shouldn't be hard to miss.

The Times They Are A'changing
Today has been hot and humid again, but on our walk to the lake the other day, it was clear that Fall is on it's way.