Halloween comes early

The pumpkin, ghost and candy holiday comes early here....we are already in the thralls of planning the porch decorations ("I'll even pay $5 or MORE of my own money for that!") and costumes, ("I was thinking to be darth vador, but now I'm thinking of being a spy." ((me= i like that, more original)). "What does original mean?" (my explanation). "Yes, I think it's much better to be orignial, don't you?" (three hours later, teeth are being brushed. "I mean, like tons of kids are going to be darth vador and pirates but I bet like only 5 kids will be spies."

Makes me remember being totally psyched for holidays, and with him, I can be almost totally psyched again....

Discussion between gatito and Dr. Write/Middlebrow's son today. "There is a month and 9 days till Halloween......long conversation about exactly HOW many days that was.......

Let the goblins come!

Box of Tomatoes

Got my box of locally grown tomatoes and now am wondering what to do with them. Anyone got any good ideas for soups to freeze? Or any other ways to consume large quantities of the red stuff?

Thoughts on Returning to Utah

Okay, all, that was a long time, no blog. Now, I'm back, mostly settled (but still ripping up the house). Don says we're hemorrhaging money, but if we don't fix the 2 year old holes in the ceiling now, when will we? And of course, fixing holes means painting and re-doing the bathroom while we're at it ('cause some of those holes CAME from bathroom problems, which also calling an electrician to finally put an outlet in the bathroom, which means we should also have him put a light in Adrian's closet, which reminds us we promised Adrian a new bedroom, which means new windows (and why is vinyl so expensive...but the grandparents are paying for it), which means since we're saving money on the windows we might as well get new carpeting upstairs.

Observations and Comments about life back in Utah:
1) It's hot
2) It's dry
3) People are obsessed with exercise
4) The cars are very very big
5) Wine is ridiculously expensive. Speaking of which The Paris is WAY over-priced. We ate more and better in the REAL Paris for less
6) It's hot
7) It's stupid to have to drive everywhere
8) It's stupid to show an ID for wine when in Sevilla we just sent Adrian to the corner store.
9) It's stupid to have to buy our own wine instead of sending the kid
10) Come to think of it, cheese is over-priced too
11) It's way too hot

(and in case you're wondering.. Sevilla CAN BE hotter, but we missed all that because we left June 22 and went to Denmark (think mid-Alaska)!