Coatis at Sabino Canyon and other news

Happy October! Today is also, I learned this morning, Rosh Hashanah. The internet says, “Literally meaning “Head of the Year,” Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Jewish calendar. It begins a 10-day period of repentance and prayer which ends on Yom Kippur. We celebrate the holiday with services and apples dipped in honey to symbolize the hope for a sweet year to come.” I was told that it is not only the beginning of the year, but also celebrates the beginning of the universe. Well, that’s cool. Big Bang Day!

We are having record breaking heat in Tucson, so despite what the calendar says, it is still very much summertime here. I finally have a chance to sit down and blog a bit, because I had an unexpected cancellation of plans. Callan and Guen’s dog, Blue, is quite ill, so Callan was not able to fly down here to go backpacking with John and I this weekend. John and I have had a lot going on ourselves lately, so instead of going backpacking without Callan, we are rescheduling until next month. Hopefully it will still be warm enough to sleep on the ground in the beginning of November. Even Arizona gets cold in the mountains in the winter.

Now I have a whole weekend free to blog! Except not – I am rapidly filling my weekend. For example, just this morning my friend Dana invited me to go to a college volleyball game tomorrow. Not something I’d usually do – which is exactly why I decided to go. A new experience! I’m not much into sports usually, but I believe Dana went to Purdue on a volleyball scholarship, and was once a volleyball coach. So at least I’ll be going to see the game with an expert.

Then on Saturday I’m hoping to get a fountain installed in our backyard – we’ll see if John has time. Sunday it might be nice to drive into the mountains to hike, since we’re missing our backpacking trip. It is still too hot here to hike in the Tucson foothills – unless you like getting up earlier than I like to in the morning.

Although I missed quite a show early this morning at Sabino Canyon! Dana and her friends saw literally 20 or 30 coatis wander by. At first they saw one, and then two, and then they kept coming and kept coming! Big ones and little ones, all scampering by one or two at a time. They are fairly common here, but I haven’t seen one yet.

This movie may show up as just a blue or black square, but hit the play button anyway. It should show three little scampering coatis, first the mom, then a young one, then…wait…another youngster.

The internet says, “Females and their young form bands of 20 individuals or more, while adult males are solitary.” So the band that Dana saw this morning would be the moms and their young.

Looks like it was a beautiful trail too. It’s called Bluff Trail. I’ll have to check that one out!

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