A Few Notes on Halloween

George went as an adorable Harry Potter. Since he looks nothing like me, is it okay if I call him "adorable?"



One of the moms in George's class made these awesome teeth. Of course George wanted NOTHING to do with them. After all, they were made from *gasp* an apple and almonds. Way too exotic.


Here is George's entire class sitting on our front steps. They all came trick or treatin' at our house Friday afternoon and came inside for cookies!



If you look closely, it appears as though George is flipping off the camera. Maybe he's sick of having his picture taken.

More Halloween pictures in the next few days. We had over 1,000 trick or treaters and my hands are too tired to type from giving out all that candy.

All Good Ideas

The next time you misplace your phone and you are home alone go to this website and type in your number and it will call you. Of course I tried it, silly.


If you come trick or treatin' at my house on Sunday this is what you may get in your bag.



Maybe we'll even squirt some blood (ketchup) on it first!

Clay thinks I need to let you know I didn't actually make them yet so the above picture is lifted from a little thing I like to call the internets.

I also love this apartment but can't really figure out how it can be kid friendly.

That is all I have for you, go to bed. Or work. Or softball practice. Scram.

p.s. if you are still hanging around here, this made me laugh out loud.

Someone pictured in the wheelbarrow above sneezed and a booger flew out of their nose and onto their sleeve. This particular family member looked at the debris and said the following.

"Even though it's my favorite kind of booger I'm not going to eat it."

Dear reader, do you have a favorite kind of booger?

Crazy Artists With Facial Hair

Have you ever thought that Goldie looks a LOT like Salvador Dali?
No? Hmmm... Well I guess I hadn't either until yesterday.

Now I'm wondering how I never noticed it before.

(Goldie's is the second image.)

Things that Made Me Laugh and/or Cry

Here's 10 things that made me laugh and/or cry since my last post, in no particular order.

1) This man (who shall remain nameless), who ate dinner at our house and when dinner was gone drank all our booze. When the booze was gone he went home to sleep and then showed up the next morning asking for a bowl of cereal (corn flakes).



2) John Roderick at The Triple Door singing Ultimatum.

3) Harry Potter



4) The walkers from the Three Day Walk for breast cancer on Capitol Hill.

5) The earwig that bit me on my neck while I was laying in bed.

6) A perfect cake.

7) This beautiful tuna with stone fruit chutney and jasmine rice in my kitchen.



8) Clay explaining to me the reason Goldie has all that curly hair. (To hide her horns, of course.)

9) The friend who asked if I have a dial-up connection after he saw my email address had an AOL extension. (It's been my main address since 1995. And no, we don't have dial up.)

10) And this, which I can't get enough of.

We Spotted an Owl

This morning on a walk to get coffee Clay and I heard crows going nutty toward the south end of our block. We assumed there was a squirrel teasing the birds and kept walking.

Hours later when Goldie and I went for a walk we heard the same birds still freakin' out.

Imagine our surprise when we looked up and saw an owl.



Owl keep you notified if we see him again.