Happy Thanksgiving!

8AM: Rise and shine and sling a pumpkin pie in the oven. Have steel cut oats with blueberries from our August haul while watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and rifling through the newspaper. Are there really places open for business at 4am tomorrow morning?! Yikes!

12PM: Decide that getting dressed would be a good idea.

1PM: We might as well be hosting dinner here -- we've baked pies, made supergarlic mashed potatoes, and roasted a turkey in the last 24 hours. In the spirit of Thanksgiving and sharing the meal with friends and family, everything except for the turkey will be taken to others' homes. The turkey is for our own sandwiches and next week's turkey soup!

3:30PM: Just in from a crisp walk to our favorite neighborhood bakery cafe - HiRise Bakery - I'm going to get cozy under blankets with books (plural) and Mike will snuggle up to the remote so that he can comfortably channel surf the array of football offerings.

Soon enough, we'll be off to our friends' home for dinner and thanks-giving. Tomorrow we'll journey up to Northern Vermont for a much-anticipated visit with cousins.

What a wonderful holiday. We're giving thanks for all of you!
xoxo

Apres-Faure

November has been really busy for both of us professionally...

I had a concert singing the Pie Jesu in the Faure Requiem earlier this month (the photo below is from that evening) and am looking forward to another concert with orchestra and chorus this Saturday night.
Oh, and I started a new day job. Heh.


Mike has been published (again!), is making headway both here at HMS and in past projects and is currently wowing the masses at the annual AiChe conference in Philadelphia. Something to do with genes and bacteria and the like, I'm sure!

The temperature severely dropped earlier this week and so the winter parkas have been definitively removed from the rafters and hung up for active rotation in the hall closet. Until next year, dear cotton overcoats and nylon windbreakers!

I've added a temperature icon in the sidebar so that you all (especially those in CA!) can live vicariously through us... take special note of the first snow (yay!) and our temperaments in February when we're ready to relocate to the Bahamas (grr!)!

They shall speak en francais.

Someday... when we have kids... we shall make them speak French.
I suppose this means we'll have to learn. But that's okay!
Why? Because this kid is the cutest thing I've ever seen. Ever.


Once upon a time... from Capucha on Vimeo.

You know it's that time when...

Starbucks cups turn pomegranate-red

The air is Cold. (That's different than "refreshingly chilly".)

Apples and squash reign supreme in the produce section

Soup always sounds like a good idea

While shopping in Lord&Taylor during the first week of November, you hear strains of It's the most wonderful time of the year...! playing throughout the store.

Halloween's over... Bring on The Holidaze!

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