Thank you for taking me to Government Center.

The filings both in the Appeals Court and in the
Supreme Judicial Court were uneventful, unchallenged.
There was a filing fee of $270 for which I was prepared
with a checkbook. The only mishap: as I got up out of my
seat on the Belmont bus on Concord Avenue the copy of my
Application slipped from my pocket. I've already printed
a replacement. I suspect the MBTA is very good at recycling
unless some curious person picked it up. Arguably the 
Boston Globe might be interested.

After our conversation yesterday, I  placed a 16 oz yogurt 
container with scraps of boiled potato and rather fragrant
boiled cauliflower into the crawl-space under the eaves. To
get at the food, a raccoon would have to turn the upright
container on its side. That didn't happen. Therefore no 
hungry racoon.