Someone wasn't too happy to meet Santa last night at the Children's Museum, maybe Santa had bad breath or something...

Bonfire

Here are a couple of pix from the redneck fest that was held this past weekend. The first one is a friend and his Jeep on the pile of wood for the bonfire. The second is the chemical reaction when you put garden hose in a copper pipe and heat it up, the colors are amazing.

Halloweenie

Below is a photo of the jack-o-lanterns, proudly displayed on our porch, that we carved with some friends. Take a close look -- do you notice anything amiss?


How about now?

Yes. This pumpkin glowed all Halloween evening for innocent trick-or-treaters to see, and it wasn't until I went to blow out the candles that I realized what I'd put on display. Though it's true that our 'hood only attracts the most desperate and degenerate candy seekers, never again will we invite one of Caleb's urology buddies over for pumpkin carving!

P.S. - If they arrest me for displaying obscene materials to minors, can we hold book club in jail?

Photoshoot Pfriday

It was finally a nice sunny day to get out of the house, it has been rainy and dreary all week and I think that I was starting to get cabin fever. Sebastian and I enjoyed a morning at Elmwood Park, and we were the only ones there (for a while at least)! That doesn't happen too often. Here are a couple of pix of him enjoying the run of the park. I met a lady who was pushing her little girl on the swings later and she reminded me of "Digging to America" she was an older mom with an eight month old little girl who looked to be Asian. - Lara

Flaming Cake

It was my little brother Jeffy's birthday this weekend, and he always requests this brownie ice cream cake. My mom had purchased some tall super-skinny candles with no wicks and some short squat ones that spelled out happy birthday. We put them all on, then I started lighting the short candles while she started on the tall ones. She gets a few lit, but the short ones i'm lighting have started to melt the wax of the taller ones. Soon the tall candles are all starting to fall over, the wax melting off the middle and the entire wicks becoming exposed. All the newly exposed wick ignited, and, well...

turns out ice cream can burn!

Naked

Documenting the evening's events:

On the menu:

Cheesy Deliciousness (dip)

Veggies

Apple Slices and Caramel

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Snickers

and of course, Juicy Juice

On the table:

Sex talks

Maturation programs (pink silk roses)

"Stuff"

Biking Accidents

Sewage Backups

David Sedaris

Naked

Viva Veritas - The Glamourous Lives of Club V

Amy, Sara and all their beautiful children

On the roster:

Annie

Lara

Metta

Lisa

Mykan

Kathy

Kristina

Christina

Digging

to America by Anne Tyler. 

Bring on The Truth!