Hey, hey! Happy Birthday

Dearest Partner in Crime,

Happiest of birthdays as you begin your 2nd quarter century! I'm honored to live here with you and experience adventures with you. We have quite a ball!

Here's to another great year, filled with exciting travels and adventures: Paris, blogs, Newport Folk Festival, and more and more and more.

Excited to play tonight!

Thanksgiving

What a Thanksgiving! For the first time ever, I stayed put. My family flew into Connecticut to visit with my brothers before driving to Mass. My parents were such good sports, being carted from location to location. They had a great big weekend of meeting in-laws, friends and boyfriends. But, we had an excellent time!

There was one fairly memorable moment: we were sitting in the living room of my sister's in-laws, just having a post-lunch discussion when all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion sound. The noise was unbelievable and fairly hard to describe, but think gun-shot loud. So, everybody jumped up to make sure no one was hurt and figure out the mystery of exactly what had happened. 

After a quick examination, we found the culprit. A broad tip hawk was chasing prey and forgot to take a gander in front of him and he crashed directly into the picture window above the kitchen sink. The window shattered, sending glass and all the windowsill decorations flying. 

We got the window taped up, but everybody was a bit jumpy around loud noises after that. 

Here are some holiday pictures:

love of my life!

Wow. Phew.

Ok, I have to tell you how hard it's been switching jobs. It's not that I don't like it, because I do. But it was one hell of a transition. Just look at my blog. It's been completely neglected for the entire month of November and I'm not terribly proud of myself. But, I try to not be too hard on myself, and something had to give. I've been spending all my working hours trying to get into the swing of work and keeping up with my friendships (and even there, if I don't live with you, we probably haven't seen too much of each other in the last 6 weeks) and some things got lost in the shuffle. 

But, I'm back and I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, because I've missed this so!

Tell me a Story

I bet magic has happened here.  There were secrets told, lovers met, people sat and quietly listened. Do you think place really exists? It's beautiful, no? So ethereal. The snow helps. 

Tell me a story about it. Tell me a secret.