Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, the symbolic anniversary of the creation of the world. The words Rosh Hashanah literally mean "Head of the Year." In addition to being the anniversary of the past creation of the world, Jewish tradition sees everyone as being created anew at this time every year. Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which usually falls sometime in September or October.

The proceeding was a flashback from my childhood, many of my close friends were Jewish and so I got to know the Jewish holidays almost as well as the national holidays. It is almost hard to believe that I hardly know anyone who celebrates the traditional Jewish holidays anymore.

Today was a three bag walk, for the last couple days I have been walking areas that I had not walked before, so there was a lot of trash that had not been picked up for a while. I have also been doing the parking lots and there has been a lot of trash there; it will be interesting to see once it is cleaned up if it will stay that way.

Today I had my famous Southwestern omelet for breakfast, three kinds of peppers, onions, mushrooms, and hot salsa. I have been trying to use up all the peppers that we have in the refrigerator, so I have been having lots of salads and Southwestern omelets.

After eating I emptied the dishwasher, made myself a cup of coffee and then headed to the living room to read the paper. When I finished the sun still had not made it out, but I went outside anyway and watered. The hydrangea plants were looking pretty wilted, partly because it had been so hot and partly because I had not been watering as much as I probably should have.

When I finished watering, the sun still had not come out; in fact it had started misting again. This morning when I finished my walk this morning my hair was really wet from the low cloud cover. So I pruned the roses and did a little weeding, so that I could put it into the yard debris can for pick up tomorrow.

Then I went out front under the fir trees and dug up a half dozen hollyhocks and transplanted them into the back yard. They were not doing very well under the fir trees so I thought that I would try giving them some more sunlight and in an area where they will be getting regular watering.

I also transplanted some columbine plants and planted them throughout the big rose garden. After I finished my transplanting, I cleaned up and made myself some lunch. The mail had come while I was digging up the hollyhocks but I had not taken the time to look at it yet, so I did that while I ate.

After resting for a while after eating I went back outside and did a little weeding in the side yard. Andrea came over after taking Brandon to the doctor's and stayed for a while. I needed to finish some things outside so I went back outside to finish up and when I was putting my tools away I noticed Aaron's car there, so I cleaned up and visited with him for a while. He had some of his guitar stains with him for us to look at. He had a couple samples where he had done some experimenting and they looked pretty good.

Well, tonight was clean out the refrigerator and leftover night, we either eat or threw out most of the leftovers or open items in the refrigerator, it is surprising how much space that opened up. Well I probably should have painted today, but it was just misty enough that I thought that I would wait for a day when it was a little drier.

That looks like it for today, so good night!