No Pictures to Show You

I am sitting at my desk writing these very words on my computer. A computer that has just had a glitch and erased all the pictures on my camera.

I was downloading pictures of the days activities when everything kind of locked up. I couldn't access any of the drives. I turned the camera off and tried access the drives through "My Documents". That brought everything back but when I turned the camera back on and looked for my pictures, the memory card was clean.

So you will not get to see any of the pictures I took today, which is really a shame because I took some good ones. Perhaps the best of my picture taking career. I feel bad for you!

Garth Brookes is in town and is performing se7en shows in five days. Susan is working them all. Since Thursday, she has worked her day job and then trundled off to the arena to work there until midnight. Yesterday and today he did two shows so Susan went in at 11:30 and will be home tonight at 12.

I feel quite a bit of guilt because she is working so hard and so much. The guilt has spurred me on to work just as hard here at the house. I doubt I have even come close.

But here is what I did get done.
     *I showed up at church yesterday morning and participated in the annual Fall Yard Cleaning Day. We raked a lot of leaves.
     *I visited Mom. She wasn't home!
     *I raked the front yard and bagged the leaves. This was particularly difficult due to the wetness of the leaves. Also, this activity took the majority of my time since I am old and move slowly.
     *I took pictures of Susan's car in preparation for selling it on Craig's List. Yup, the very pictures my camera just deleted.
     *I separated out the grape skins from our wine and racked the juice into a clean carboy.
     *I drank some beer.
     *I got the hoses put away.
     *I got a great series of pictures of this raccoon that comes up on the deck and eats the remaining grapes. You won't be seeing those.
     *I finally completed putting all the Halloween stuff away.
     *I drank some more beer.
     *I carved up a bunch of the pumpkins remaining on the front porch into small pieces that fit more compactly into the garbage can.
     *I drank some wine.
     *I wrote this post.

So you can see I've been busy and productive. I only wish I had some pictures to prove it.

Back to Standard Time

It snowed the other day and it's still on the ground. Usually, a snow fall this early in the season doesn't hang around.

The winter conditions persist as the weekend rolls along.

I spent part of last night going through the house to set as many of our clocks back to Standard time as I could. We have a lot of clocks!

We spent our extra hour exactly where one should spend it. In bed. Snoozing away. Loving it!

Winter Weekend

We received our first official measurable snowfall yesterday and as I write, a soft gentle snow fall is occurring out my window. That makes it a perfect day for a fire in the fireplace and Cougar football. It is almost to the end of the third quarter and WSU is behind Stanford 21-17.

I'm not worried yet because there is a whole quarter left. But as with all Cougar games, they have the potential to "Coug it" at any time.

From the TV, it looks like a very wet snow is coming down pretty hard.

I did some final Halloween clean up in the yard and now the only thing left is to stow everything properly upstairs in the Carriage House. Our friend Mark is coming over at four to help with that effort.

Update: The Cougars won in the last few minutes by three points. Mark came over and helped with the stowing. Now, I am going to get a good head start on that extra hour I gain tonight.

Halloween Pictures

Here is a small assortment of photographs I took throughout the evening last night.

There is our pile of candy for the evening.

As stated in the previous post, the reported total of Night Urchins from my neighbors with the clicker is 1,799. It was a very busy night! And they weren't all urchins. 

What are you doing if you're an adult and out Trick or Treating? Where did things go wrong for you?

Once it got to 8:00, we were throwing hands full of candy at the kids. Susan brought a shit load of Twizzlers.

I am now happily able to report that my Flying Ghost display performed flawlessly. It never jumped the tracks and ran all night. I had been reluctant to comment to anyone to keep the bad juju away...and it worked!

I am very happy to move on now.