Turkey Day

what is it about old west movies... is it the lawlessness which is attempted to be brought back to order with guns and ropes? is it the girl, leaning on the porch post waiting for her outlaw to ride over the horizon, is it the cowboy, the marshal, the rancher who wears a hat shading his eyes, drinks his whiskey, stares out onto the vast plains, into the canyon, over the mountains? the fact that you have to rely on yourself, your skills, and the good will of others to survive... small towns, trains, the miles and miles of open land - open for anyone to wander - to claim and settle...

moving the couch

this past week i've been waking up pretty early - heading to work early - doing work things, coming home - last night i rearranged the front room. i love moving furnature -- i basically flipped the room around - gotta live with it for a while - but i think it might work -- if gives a differnt persepective when you sit on the couch. i need a different perspective. i get into ruts that i don't think about - but after awhile start to wear on me. and i gotta do something about. but sometimes it takes an eternity to see that - or do something about them. so yeah. i am happy fall is here. tonight - i may rake up the thousands of 10' leaves that dumped from my tree this weekend. it's naked now, the tree, - with only the pointy bean pods dangling from its limbs. i wonder when they fall... i wish my yard backed into a forest or gully so i could dump the leaves back there -- or big enough that i could make a big pile and burn them -- and yes, i know you aren't supposed to do that.

halloween was fantastic. i think it was the best i've had in the longest time. i dressed up like a retarded ghost - something definatly to improve/ expand on... Patrick came over - dressed like a fierce Viking... a bunch of little kids - hip-high came and "stole" my candy... Henry-dog was a hell of a lot better than he was last year... i got "the pumpkin man" dumped on my porch which i stealthy moved to Andy and Julie's porch only minutes later... it was a lot of fun.