Thanksgiving prep day

Today we are getting ready for Thanksgiving. Bob has already made a banana cream pie for the Starbucks lady, and now he's making two pumpkin pies, one for us and one for Uncie David. Then we will shop for sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, stuffing, green beans, cranberries, and all the stuff to go with it.

And now, to get you in the holiday mood, a little Bohemian Rhapsody...

My vote for best performance is Beeker. Any other nominations?

And now, a timely video for Lindy AND Chris

I'm embarrassed to post this after making all those disparaging comments about Crosby Stills and Nash yesterday, but here is a lovely live version of "Teach Your Children," 'specially for Lindy and Chris.

This song always makes me cry.

Special birthday surprise for Chris

Here is a birthday song I picked out just for Christopher Kincaid--along with two apologies.

1. I'm sorry for being almost a week late. Happy birthday on the 11th!
2. I'm sorry I couldn't find a live recording of this fantastic song that actually sounded decent. I think Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young drank heavily before performing, which caused a bit of temporary tone deafness. (Seriously. Do a You Tube search and you'll see what I mean.) This album version, however, is heavenly.

Happy, happy, happy birthday...and thanks for making Lindy so happy.

And just for fun, here is one of the live recordings, with authentically off-key harmonies. Ouch. Fun to watch Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in their youthful glory.

Them squirrels is smart

All summer long, the blue jays and magpies stole from the food we put in the feeder for our little squirrel family. The birds would pick through the feeder trying to get at the peanuts and sunflower seeds, knocking all the corn on the ground.

When the weather was warm and there was a lot of food around, the squirrels didn't seem that interested in the corn, but about two weeks ago, the squirrels started moving all the corn from the ground back into the squirrel feeder, one kernel at a time, presumably so they'll have plenty of food for the winter. They find one kernel, make sure it's corn, run up the tree, crawl into the feeder, and run back down again--millions of times. The ground is still blanketed with corn, so I guess I'll be watching them do this until the snow falls. Look at this cute little guy!

Mommy to be

Lindy was here this weekend!

We did baby-having preparation stuff, like shopping for strollers (we found a fabulous jogging stroller at REI) and deciding which books to read to baby Kincaid first. I'm not sure, but I think Lindy chose Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type, because it is funny and involves a sneaky duck. (I gave Lindy a bunch of my favorite little-kid books.)

Bobbyanne, Michelle, Andy, Chris, Devon, David and Laura came over for breakfast on Sunday and we had crepes and some other good stuff. Like a dope, I FORGOT to take photos of this event, but it was great to see everyone. (Sidebar: Can you believe Bobbyanne and Dan got married??? How cool is that?)

Thelxi had a shower for Lindy, and they decorated onesies. Lindy drew this cute picture of baby Kincaid and Rick!

And now for a cat update. Oscar enjoyed having Lindy as a roommate. He is still happy and healthy--and blind as a bat, poor little guy.

This photo is called The Circular Cat. It's like a circular argument, only furrier.

Janie is still a princess.

Our front yard was pretty for a couple of days, right before it snowed. Now everything looks like dead sticks. Here's a photo, in memory of the pretty fall we had this year.