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October 31, 2007
HALLOWEEN 2007
the best part of today was that it's KINNON'S FIRST HALLOWEEN!!
suzanne and her parents came over with him for us to fuss at...like how his head is the exact size and shape of the peas on his costume!!!
even sporty heartily approves!
since halloween in northampton is just not the same for me, as it was in san francisco, i'll just lay down a variety of picts i took during the day
did the jacque o'lanterne freehand this year; no markings or nothing!
i took tessy for a walk around the smith campus
many of the students thought she looked superswell in her costume (and so did i!!!) you know, ladybugs are said to be some of the most fierce in the insect world. i know terriers can be fierce too, although tessy's only fierce once-in-a-great-while-cuz-you-just-won't-get-outta-her-face!!!
i was all set up for halloweenie tricksters!
i made the witches bags of treats with 8 pieces of candy each....of course no one showed, so i gave one to tully&sue, one to the neighbors, and sporty and i each had one.
jack and the gang were at the ready; just. in. case. you never know what i could do all spun up on sugar; like stay up until the late show and do some blogging....
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October 30, 2007
closing down the cottage
as happens every year, it comes time to close down the beach cottage...
we drove down after ted headed back to rozzie.
the whole closing thing is both beautiful and solemn....
this was the first year that sporty showed me the more technical side to shutting down for the season, like where all the pipes had to be drained, and things of that nature.
rhode island really is a beautiful place,
but i think next year, we should have other people there and make it a closing party....i just think it would be better if it were a fun experience....
we made it home just in time for IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN!
i really love all the charlie brown specials....they really speak to me...although, i have to say, i saw the AMERICAN MASTERS show on charles shultz...
his life story was kinda on the heavy side.....
i guess that's why he really focused in on the topics he did...and i'm glad he focused in on things like what friendship is, how greed is a glich in one's moral compass, empathy for all creatures....it definately affected my perspective as a child....especially the greed bits...
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October 29, 2007
ted came to visit this weekend; YEAH!
after a saturday filled with shopping downtown northampton, ted reminded me,
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October 26, 2007
the dog park autumn 2007
this is a heavy-duty, pict-laden entry for those who were wondering what the northampton dog park is looking like these days....
ok, AFTER this typical new england fall pict the focus will be on the dog park...there is hardly any further text, so it might take some time to open....
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October 25, 2007
here i am, COMPLETELY unable to stop fixating on....
PUSHING DAISIES!!!
(all picts are taken of my personal television during the broadcast of the show, which is why i miss all the good picts; i'm too absorbed to remember to take the pict!)
how i lurve the darling mermaid darlings and their new co-hort, that pie hole tartlette, olive snook. if i'm not horribly mistaken, i think bejewelled eye-patches will make numerous appearances on couture runways 'round the world next season.
how completely pleasing to my own obsessive hobby it is that emerson's a knitter, even if he's a borderline closet-knitter: "papa needs some new yarn." (and how completely weird his name's emerson; i worked at emerson college for almost six years....)
how completely compelling do i find the relationship between ned and chuck? 100% CONTACT-FREE COMPLETELY! it makes me feel like maybe a boyfriend could be a good thing in the many days and hours that constitute the totality of my life...and then i remember i'm watching television.....bad, bad, BAD of me to sometimes forget i'm watching a television broadcast....THIS is why i know i am now dealing with an addiction. an addiction to the fairy-tale ending that was apparently stuffed so far down inside of me i didn't even realize it was still alive and well until i first laid eyes on this program. HOWEVER, that's a story for another entry, as this entry's about the completely compelling story of the pie maker and his main squeeze, the lonely tourist.
(has anyone else noticed that ned is driving around in what appears to be a 300 series mercedez? as, of course, I drive around in a 300 series mercedez....i'm telling you, the natural fictitious boundaries between the virtual life of those PUSHING DAISIES and the reality life of myself are disappearing as rapidly as the bees these days!!!)
i particularly liked this week's episode of reward-seeking, un-dead-then-re-dead-making, comic book colored, fast-talking hijinx, that somehow involved \/this\/ windmill dweller...
it is not for no reason that this pict appears to be taken from film of a pornographic nature (and i don't mean a new one). are you telling me you don't recognize that slut charlie from UGLY BETTY? she thinks she can saddle poor henry with a baby on a fashion magazine accountant's salary and then run off to keep windmill in some other show under some other name without anyone noticing?!?!?!?! HUH!!! let the record show that I noticed and that i'm keeping score!!!!!!
***till next time why don't all you dog owners contemplate this; if you could bring your lurvely dog back from the dead, knowing you could never touch them again....AS LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE...would you? or would you go and get a new dog, so that you could cuddle with that cutie?
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October 22, 2007
chapter 10.22; in which nature goes a-paintin'....
yesterday was a surreally beautiful day. i felt like poop, but i had to get out and be in the most amazing mid-october weather i've ever seen in my northampton life. i took the tessinator down paradise pond way....
***warning; heavy pict content following!***
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October 20, 2007
speaking of wildlife....
this is what i saw accross the street this morning when i went out to water the plants...
in case you thought that was a photo of a cat, which is what I thought it was, except that there were two people on the street spending a looooooong time to watch that "cat", and then i realized it was A FALCON!!!
i was able to run in, get my digi, and get out to get this one pict (of which i've enlarged a cropped portion). it took off in full wing span with a squirrel in it's talons, which i was not able to get a pict of...damn my super slow digi!!!! however, i do feel pretty blessed to have gotten this shot at all! i can't tell you how HUGE this bird seemed to me, even from accross the street!!! i suppose saying i thought it was a cat kind of speaks to that; but i thought it was from how big the legs were! wow!!!! i'm beyond amazed to have seen one of these in my neighborhood.
i will definately be spending more time here over the next week or two!!! maybe i'll see that falcon again!!!
i just feel like putting in a cute shot of tessy.
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October 19, 2007
the neighborhood is starting to fall
this is the the only tree in our front yard that makes a "mess", but the back is truly loaded, in that there's a mini-woods back there...
i know there's some serious physical labor in my near future, which will be good for me, but preocuppies my mind anyhow. even tessy's a bit preoccupied with all those trees!...
although, if it weren't for "the woods" we wouldn't see half the wildlife we see, at our close proximity to downtown northampton. let's face it, the wildlife is what is primarily keeping tessy zipping around the backyard the way she does
please notice the zip lines flying off the tessinator. nor would we all be able to enjoy what will soon be the ever changing pallete of the back yard over the next couple of weeks. i'm actually suprised that the leaves are turning such brilliant colors. i always beleived that it was the cold nights and warmish days that brought out the best colors. i still have my windows open and fans going, since it hasn't really gotten down much lower that 50F at night here. i mean, i would say we're in indian summer, but there hasn't been any length of cool weather to seperate the summer from the autumn. i'm still getting tomatoes people!!!!
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October 18, 2007
i have a hoakey crush
i had ABSOLUTELY NO INTEREST in this show for the weeks i saw it being hyped prior to its airing. however, in that there's not a lot of quality programming on wednesdays, and i was just NOT feeling WIRED SCIENCE that first night, i "resigned" myself to watching the premiere episode. i LOVED it!!! i felt like i shouldn't, in that looking over one's shoulder to hope no one sees kind of way, and that perhaps i was being falsely lured in because of any lack of true and substantive competition...i mean, we've all had that lured-in-feeling at some point in our lives, although usually at a much younger age, although i'm sure there are plenty of you who might succumb at my age as i have, right? i made a conscious decision to keep my feelings to myself. i would watch the second show, to see if there was any true consistency in its enjoyment quotient, before making hastey descisions that might bring mockery upon the status of my opinion in those areas where my opion seems to be counted; THERE WAS. taking a deep breath at the end of that second show i had to admit, if only to myself, there were so many things to like in both episodes; i really enjoy how the plot is simultaneous light and dark, in both its physical and plot natures; a pie maker who brings the dead back to life.....i mean, the material from that contridiction alone is exploding with possibility, never mind a partner who blackmails you into a mutually-beneficial financial agreement, or a love interest who may forever have to dodge her own personal quasi-celebrity history in the next town over, if not the same town... i like the way the background scenes, and even the clothing, is both comic-like and hipster at the same time, with super bright colors, and super dark shading. i like that chuck calls a fridge the cheesebox. i like the way the characters talk, in sort of run-on solioques, packed with subtle and not so subtle innuendos, metaphors, and puns. i like the flashbacks to childhood, like with the frogs in in biology class. i like the way the mini-weekly plots are packed within the larger plot of PIE-MAKER-WHO-RAISES-THE-DEAD-FOR-PROFIT-BRINGS-CHILDHOOD-SWEETHEART-BACK-TO-LIFE-AND-HOW-LONG-CAN-THIS-POSSIBLY-LAST? i love the way the aunt's eye patch is jeweled.
DUDE, i wicked heart pushing daisies!
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October 04, 2007
the tide is going out, as it were
despite the fact that it's eighty-something degrees out, leaves like this are screaming out that the major natural wonder that IS the ever-evolving painting of autumn is on it's way.
personally, autumn is my favorite season. others write it off, or find it depressing, because they only see the herald of winter; IT'S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT! it's photosynthesis in action! it's a great example of "the best things in life are free"! it's great sounds underneath your feet! it's the time that all that knitting comes into action!!!!
although, i must say i haven't really been knitting much. the only thing i've really been working on is this stuffed fox from a lucinda guy book. it's going to be one of kinnon's christmas presents. i'll put up some picts later, when i've blocked all the pieces. right now all it looks like is a big mangled pile of yarn.
i've been focusing my energy mostly on sewing and jewelry making. i haven't got the jewelry photographed yet, but i did take pictures of the t-shirts i've juzjed up. by-the-by; i got into the whole bias tape making thing, in conjunction with my desire to have some new girlie shirts, so all bias tape on all shirts was made by yours truly! it's quite labor-intensive, but you wind up with a lot of goods for the effort.
i did a green one, that for some reason i had to sew a bow onto...
then i did a navy one. i was pretty stoked to use some of the odd-ball buttons my aunt jane sent me.
the last one i've done so far (i have two more designated), is my scottie shirt. at first i was going to do a plaid scottie applique, but then i decided to go with the yo-yo/button combo
i don't know if you can see, but there's a little scottie button in the middle of that yo-yo combo
this gave me the idea to make up some of these
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