Day 5.251: Who shot the shooter?

The kids were off school for Rosh Hashanah today. Shana Tova to all those celebrating.

For me it was a work day and for everyone else it was a chance to catch up on appointments. Exile #3 visited the orthodontist and E5N1 had his annual physical.  Verdict: he's doing fine!

For a large part of the day he was wielding the Fisher Price camera.  He has a critical eye and immediately deletes shots he's not happy with.  As a result, the camera has a rather compelling record of his day by the end (I think the one above was taken by Exile #3):

And yes, he had to have a vaccination at his physical - he wasn't so happy about that - so it was his pediatrician that did it!

Day 5.250: Recent (random) things

I'm feeling a bit off-colour this evening, so here are some random things that caught my eye and were caught by my camera, but (as far as I recall) have not made it onto the blog since.


We saw a few of these in Alexandria Bay - sometimes our family life feels like this (without the actual beatings you understand):

Why is it that the only thing that's allowed to have curves in the Empire State Plaza is the concrete?

Pretzel-eating size restrictions?:

And onward into the week!

Day 5.249: Fall Festival

Although NPR has been telling us that this is the last full weekend of summer (the equinox falls during next weekend and ushers in autumn), it was the Five Rivers Fall Festival today.

Exile #3 had offered to help out at the ever-popular craft tables again, so she had a busy afternoon there.  The rest of us were busy too - first elsewhere, but then Exile #2, E5N1 and I went over there to look around, enjoy some of the activities and collect Exile #3 at the end of her volunteering stint.

There was an opportunity to look around the brand-new school-program building.  It's a very nice space and was proudly advertising its environmentally-conscious building materials (appropriately enough).  The green-roof is yet to be planted (they had a sample), but otherwise, it looks ready for action!

Meanwhile E5N1 caught a plastic fish with a real fishing line and did some craft (some assisted by his sister) and I admired the giant plastic fish at the fish-printing table.

Then it was a quick exit (via the used-books stall) to collect Exile #4 from a birthday party.

Day 5.248: Another car feature: serious caffeine edition

This is probably a bit more Monday-morning than Friday evening, but...

Day 5.247: Car feature innovation

This is not about our new car - this feature was in a rental I had for a few days.

I noticed this between the two front seats.

But I thought, "Surely if I put my drink(s) in there they will fall over?"  (It even looks like it's happened before.)

But look - they thought of that! Slide the divider across and...

"But wait! My cups are not that big!"

It's OK - just turn the fancy knob and ...

"No - one is small, but the other is a large!"

It's OK - relax, they've got it covered (with the third position on the switch):

The most ridiculous feature ever - or have you seen better?