Happy Thanksgiving!

Kid President has a list of 20 things we should say more often....

Winter Color

My Christmas Cactus are blooming before Thanksgiving - situation normal. I do love the colors though, so it really doesn't matter when they bloom, I appreciate the bright colors indoors during the winter.

We have had a week of cold temperatures at night here in the 4th Corner. It was 26 degrees yesterday morning, before 8am anyways. The upside to the cold is that it is at least partly sunny.

Dinovember

This was on Fail Blog today, it's too cool ☺


Refe Tuma and his wife have a very special set of pranks that they pull on their daughters every November - DINOSAUR PRANKS. In a move they call "Dinovember," their daughters' plastic toys "come to life" every night and wreak havoc on the Tume household. As Refe puts it, " In a time when the answers to all the world's questions are a web-search away, we want our kids to experience a little mystery. All it takes is some time and energy, creativity, and a few plastic dinosaurs."

Mom

Today was Prince Charles' 65th birthday. It would have been my mom's 80th birthday. She told me the story when I was around 20 of how she remembered when he was born. She was a teenager, and at the time she said it was pretty cool that he was born on her birthday.

Bonnie Prince Charles

Anne McDougal

The picture I took of her above was from 1982. We were on a road trip from my hometown of Kalamazoo Michigan to her hometown of Rochester New York.

I had earned a one week vacation from the job I had, and one of the main events of the trip for my mom was to go to her 25th high school reunion. After the reunion we headed to Vermont and New Hampshire. We were driving in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, which is a little ways southeast of Rochester, and came across this sign.

We immediately pulled over and got out and I got this shot of mom, we could not resist! It was a fun trip; I saw Lake Champlain for the first time, and we went all the way to the Atlantic coast in New Hampshire.

She took a solo trip to Nova Scotia the summer I took driver's ed in high school. I might post about that some other time, I have her pictures and other items from that trip. At her memorial service after she died in 1985, one of her friends told me how brave she felt my mom was at the time to make a trip like that, very independent.

It's something I think about in relation to when she and dad divorced. She said that part of why he left her was that he felt like she wasn't growing enough as a person. And I thought the irony is that after getting divorced I think she actually grew a lot. She and dad were both very smart, well read and into the arts, I'm thankful that I had that environment to grow up in.

Mom 1979

My mom's best friend Nancy Jackson Jones took this picture at the beach on Lake Michigan. She always tanned so beautifully, I wished I had inherited that. I expected my hair to go salt & pepper like hers since I had found my first gray hair at 21, but it was not to be. Like I said before though, I am the product of my parents; I got dad's height and her legs ♥

Mom on honeymoon 1956

Mom 3 or 4 years old

Cheezeburger was on fire again today

Real life provides so much entertainment, who needs the movies?


I love the auto-correct fails that are on Fail Blog. The fact that so many people don't apparently read what they have typed out before they hit send, is only made worse by the fact that they don't know how to spell in the first place.


The meme at the bottom is one of those that really tests how fast you can pick up on the meaning and scan the image at the same time!

There was also this funny dog & cat GIF on the website as well.

This 'n That

Tom Cat

I love waking up and seeing any one of the cats sleeping against the pillow like this. It's usually either Boo or Tommy. All four of them slept with me last night, which is usually the case, but Boo had moved on by the time I woke up.

Munchkin

Woody

Woody has definitely gotten way more snuggly in the last year. He almost always wants to curl up on my lap now. I also frequently wake up to him sleeping across my chest or neck even. This morning he was on the pillow next to my head.

First Christmas Cactus Bloom of the season

The Economy Hub with Michael Hiltzik of the L.A. Times

I just read this article on the L.A. Times about the Affordable Care Act, (I really hate the term Obama-Care). I felt it was a fairly thoughtful explanation, I hope you check it out.

I don't think that that the law is perfect, but I still greatly resent the lawmakers that have fought for years against affordable medical coverage for the average American. It is the height of hypocrisy to deny the public something that they get by virtue of being in public office. Funny how it's good enough for them, and they don't worry about having enough money in the federal budget to pay for it. But God forbid they can come up with anything for the rest of us. To me it shows that they have no conscience whatsoever if they have no problem with that.

And instead of just trying to block it, if they had actually been working with the President and the White House to modify it, maybe none of the problems they are having with the roll-out right now would be happening.