Happy Thanksgiving, everyone :) Hope your day is full of good friends, good family time, and good food - particularly pie.

Mmm, pie.

The other day Jej and I visited my family farm. On the drive up the lane, we saw a dark blue, shiny bird that we thought might be a blue bird. It was about the right size, and after all, it was blue!   After doing some research, however, we discovered that blue birds are completely different and what we had actually spotted was a purple martin. ( Read more... )

As it's raining and cold outside, and as I'm waiting for the company's Web CMS to start working again, I figure it's the perfect time for ghost stories.  All that's really needed are a good bonfire and some marshmellows to roast, but seeing as they kind of frown on starting fires in your cube, I guess this cup of tea will have to do.

( The Gleneagles Ghost )

Despite the fact that the weekend was a jumbled family reunion brought about by less than happy circumstances, there was a lot of humor involved in remembering and telling stories ( Read more... )

( Little House on the wherever this is )

My family and I got back from Zurich yesterday - a day early because of work-related emergencies (which have resolved). It's good to be home! I missed my dog. I had a great time, though: we went from Zurich to Milan by train, then drove to Fiesole outside of Florence, down to Asolo by Venice, up to Lake Como, back to Milan and then back to ( Read more... )