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Over the river and through the woods...

to Grandmother's house we go.
We spent a wonderful thanksgiving weekend with Grandma and some of the Rivinus clan. There were 9 of us at the dinner table including Sean's Aunt Diane, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Luther and 3 cousins. Grandma made the turkey, green beans, and mashed potatoes. She and Diane had already done a lot of the preperations the day before. Aunt Jenny brought sweet-potato casserole, rolls and pumpkin pie. In case there wasn't going to be enough to eat I had brought a red velvet cake. It was also Jenny's birthday so we celebrated that as well.
Sean's Grandmother is one of those people everyone adores and is happy to spend time with so it was a wonderful day. Sean and I drove up Wednesday night and stayed until today.

My second "American" thanksgiving and the only part I still find strange is the rush to begin Christmas before Thanksgiving is really over. It's too early to set up a Christmas tree people!!! The morning after Thanksgiving and the shoppers were lined up at Target and best-buy, the Today show had started their "Countdown to Christmas" and on our ride home today we saw at least a half-dozen live trees tied to people's roof racks on the way home. Oh well 'tis the season and it's too early for bah humbug stuff as well.

On a side note Mrs. Tara Sperling is being surprised today with a 30th birthday party. I am sure there will be a story or two told tomorrow. Someone send me photos (hee hee ha ha). Happy Birthday Tara!

Photographer's Wife

Just a quick bit of news, I sold my first signed limited edition print at the Farmer's market on Saturday.

Sean got me a Canon Rebel for my birthday and I have been practising. I liked the concept of a picture of teacups I'd taken but not the overall look. On a lark I played around with it in photoshop and came up with something sort of Andy Warhol like (to quote Tilly). I just thought it looked funky.

I put it on display at the market and it was the first picture someone looked at and about the third to sell. Pretty nifty n'est-ce-pas? Sometimes creativity pays, not necessarily well, but it can still pay.

It's a bird, it's a plane...

Sorry Carlos, I just couldn't resist posting this. Who says Halloween is kid's stuff?