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What is this?

Musings

I just looked out my bedroom window and did a double take. Is our tulip poplar getting its wisdom teeth? It looks like a molar is growing out of this dead tree branch.

mystery picture
mystery pic 2

What do you think it is?

It could be a bone taken into the tree by one of the local raccoons. It could be a bit of wood, but how did it get there? I thought it might be some sort of mushroom, but it doesn’t seem to be attached at the bottom.

It’s a mystery.

[Edited: May 15 — The next day the object had been moved closer to the trunk of the tree and by noon it was gone. Never figured out what it was. Maybe a muffin a squirrel was hording?]

$72.05

Musings

The second week I stayed in Illinois with my mom earlier this month was spent running errands and cleaning out her attic. We didn’t get far with the attic, but I found a few pieces of my past.

One of the pieces was a bill from my birth. I don’t think it is the full bill, but the bill for part of my nursery stay. I think I stayed in the hospital for nearly a month after I was born because I was underweight (3lbs 9oz).

Two weeks stay in the hospital for an underweight newborn in 1956 was cheap! $72.05
I was born on August 23 and the first date on this bill is September 2, which was for nursery charges. It also lists charges for drugs on September 2. I wonder what drugs they gave me as a week old infant.