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Things have been mostly dark and colder-than-Fall cold here in Tennessee as of late. The magnolia tree out front shivered off her final few leaves last night and as can be seen here, Mr. Kitty and I constantly duke it out for possession of the heating vents:




(He's winning.)

We managed our way through Halloween and only scared off one group of small children (apparantly kids in the new neighborhood have never heard a musical saw before - the kids in the old neighborhood wouldn't hit the ground even if they heard gunfire). We carved some pretty nice pumpkins and the boy was able to spend some quality time (which I forced upon him) with our "son", Jack Lemmon:

(the tall one is "the boy" and the shorter one is Jack Lemmon)







(Some people call Jack Lemmon a "dummy" but I think that is mean. I think he is just a little slow.)

As the boy and Jack scooped the guts out of the pumpkins, I stayed inside in the warm house and watched them from the window. I also had fun imagining what our new neighbors must be saying as they probably were also watching from their windows.

So, now that Halloween has passed and the fake decapitated horse head has been firmly placed back in storage, we are now preparing for the tofurkey and for the subsequent Christmas holiday. I am sure that it will be a busy time, but I will be checking back in.

Take care until then....