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Succos In Israel

So here's the moment I have been dreading, where I have to clean yet again the pigeon crap from my marpeset.

That's Alfred Hitchcock for those who don't know, the director of the famous film "The Birds." That film is all about an infestation of nasty birds. He should have come here to film it, probably would have saved production costs.

This is another one of those little facts that aliyah people don't tell you about, the bird infestation. We hear them in our sleep. There's pigeon crap all over the place here, on the sidewalks, on the steps to our apartment building, on ledges, on park benches, on railings.

So every week or so I go out on my marpeset and clean off all the pigeon crap. When we moved in, there was a nest outside the laundry room and on the ledge. We got rid of those, but the pigeons still crap up my marpeset. I am dreading what they'll do to my schach once I install it.
But before I do that I must clean up the crap and the feathers from the floor and the succah frame. I must also  peel off the tarp that we put up to prevent an absolute avalanche of  pooping.

The other side of that blue thing is dripping in bird poop.


Here I peeled a corner of it back so you can see the wonderful poop. Some dropped in my eye as I did this.


Here's the floor, with one week of poop on it.



And the ledge.


It's going to be a lovely Succos eating and sleeping out there.


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