What’s in a name?

 Thing Two came downstairs (which I always hear as part of Bill Cosby’s chocolate cake routine) in his robe and slippers and hair, and Dada quipped, “looks like Bob Marley.”

Now, being married for as long as we have, I knew exactly that he meant Hair In His Face was channeling Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol. I saw the chains in my mind’s eye, because the posture and plodding pace were both spot on.

But because I was just awake enough to know the Bob part wasn’t quite right, my brain superimposed an image of Bob Marley, hair and all, over top of the Jacob Marley and let’s just say I’m so glad I had just swallowed my mouthful of coffee because it would not have been pretty!

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Be safe if you’re traveling. Count and celebrate your blessings. It’s been a long year and you are allowed to enjoy your time of rest and yumminess. Savor more than the bites. You are so loved! 🥰😋🦃🍁🦥

There are no words in Elvish, Entish, of the tongues of men…

 For how dumb our dogs are. Right now, Honey is laying down beside her food, yet again. She’s not smart enough to realize if she ate it that she then wouldn’t have to guard it. The rest of us have to deal with getting around or over the multiple baby gates set up to separate them until she finishes or we give up and save her breakfast for dinner. 

But THIS one, the Small Stupid One as he’s often called, decided instead of running his usual lap or two around the fire pit and back to the deck that he would instead go tearing off for the neighbors’ bushes and then baja back through the courtyard. The completely covered in wild onion, black raspberry canes, and pricker-seeded weeds. Fifty-two pickup on aisle nine…

Dumbhead.

Sometimes Monday feels like

Or

Or even like

But this Monday showed up like:

Smiling Cheshire Cat moon

 Have a brilliant day and a wonderful week!

As usual, October went off her meds

This was last Friday. It was sunny, lovely and warm. 

Yesterday the wind started blowing and I thought maybe I'd lose some preschoolers to the wind during recess...

Last night it snowed (you can kind of see it on the circle table, along with the bajillions of  leaves the wind knocked down) right before trick or treat.

This morning it was clear and cold, gorgeous moon making spooky tree shadows on the crust of snow.

I'm in two shirts, two pairs of pants, and wool socks. It's 10:35 in the morning and the temp has just now hit the freezing mark. Hellooooo, November!

 

Halloween Shenaniganery

Thing Three was a sumo wrestler with some added gloves and his red crocs. 

Thing One headed off to scoop ice cream in costume. Yes, Link. Again.

Thing Two, celebrating his 18th birthday in style,  was the Black Knight from Monty Python. He even tied for second place in the costume party competition. 

And I'm not sure where the Tuscan Raider (Star Wars canon) came from, but you can bet there are snow pants on under the brown pants and a Carhartt under the outer layer. It snowed right before trick or treat and was a fabulously frosty 33 degrees. Grandmama informed me it was 23F with windchill. Very different from last year's balmy warm sprinkles!

Dada was a lumberjack and we visited thing one before taking the boys to their party and trick or treating. We had a great night. pray for teachers everywhere who are dealing with excessive amounts of sugar today!