FUN – I received an interesting calendar for Christmas:  “Goats in Trees.”  Apparently goats in Morocco  climb trees and the photos are charming.  The scoop and the poop:

THE ARGANIA TREE IS NOT the most aesthetically pleasing plant in the world with a rough, thorny bark and gangly, crooked branches. But these Moroccan trees still tend to attract admirers, thanks in large part to the hordes of goats. The animals stand on the impossibly precarious branches and get down to their seasonal feast. Far from just a single ambitious goat climbing a single tree, the animals tend to swarm into the branches in number.

Local farmers condone and even cultivate this bizarre feeding practice, keeping the goats away from the trees while the fruit matures and releasing them at the right time. There is also a secondary benefit to the goats’ habits which is found in their poop. After the goats finish eating the fruit and nuts off the tree, they pass valuable clumps of seeds which are then pressed to create the sought-after Argan oil. Check it out via Google at atlasobscura.com

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ROLL OVER, BEETHOVEN!  —  One of my recent “Likes” was from an interesting person in Malta…unfortunately I don’t think I can ever learn how to read those little funny boxes to say Thanks…

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WHAT THE H IS WEGOVY! ….A casual heading in this week’s The Week heralded a clipping about Wegovy without ever defining it.  A first I was flammoxed, but after looking it up can I be proud that I’m not one of the weightiest who seek it out?  (But not one of the oldest who has trouble keeping up with the times?)

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: If a man takes off his sunglasses I can see him better.  –Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mandy/Molly!  Fifty-Two Today!

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CAN WE ALL TRY to make 2024 better than 2023?  Let’s go, TEAM 2024!