Gauzy

The look of the skies, and getting colder; off for a solo bouldering workout, taking an uneventful bus ride to the destination. No drunken crazies or odorous and ominous souls on board. Evening outing with beloved spouse, to a business's anniversary celebration held at the aquarium; wonderful party, lots of different people in attendance owing to the nature of the business. Fun to eat sushi while watching the octopus pose in her big tank, munch on scallops and crabcakes as the reef fish zoomed around. Most generous of the owners to put it on there, and it was nice to get invited.

Moon mad

After a perfectly gorgeous day, the scheduled appearance of this lunar delight was as fabulous as last night's; the corner market feller wondered aloud what was going to happen as a result. Not sure what he was thinking about, unless it was the mayhem that's been going on around the region for several weeks. Don't think the moon could do much to worsen that craziness. We just persevere in our daily stuff, trying to ignore any criminality occurring anywhere close.
Finally tried the new organic roasted mole sauce; it was amazing, quite a nice kick, even cut with some vegetable stock. Not sure it would be as good straight out of the jar.

Clear skies in the morning

They lasted all day, and into the night, with an almost full moon appearing in a dark lavender sky; even buzzed people out in front of a nearby tavern were exclaiming over it as they took a break to smoke in the fresh cold air. We got in our walks, and the weekly hairdo for our nonegenarian, who was chipper and cheery, owing to the unusual amounts of sunshine she was imbibing. Even the mercurially-tempered family cat seemed happy, as he strolled along hunting for odors.

So good to me

A little group of us made it to the gym for a session in the morning; never know when we will be able to manage it, but it's great fun when we do. Everyone was in pretty good spirits, which buoys up the rest of the day. One of the staff had offloaded a good portion of a vegan chocolate cake his wife had brought home for research purposes; we were amazed at its general tastiness.
(Sometimes vegan baked goods are leaden and dry, I've found.) We didn't regret our own research.

Unhand that tree

So many people seem to be whacking away at trees and shrubs, far too drastically for them to look good. "It'll grow back" appears to be the mantra of these inept pruners. One fellow was denuding his side yard, and the results were not good.
Mild sort of afternoon, and our final turkey dinner with remainders was consumed; all that's left are cranberries.

Late breaking perfection

A treasure of a day, sunny, almost warm when out of the slight movement of air; we got some fine walking in, errands done, muscles worked, and generally de-stressed. Green Lake was jammed with people working on last night's dinner fuel, which is probably a good sign.
Late evening airing and early to bed.

Part of the bird

Everybody got their butts out of their seats for exercise. We had a little family dinner, with appropriate food for all, including turkey breast, stuffing on the side made from home made bread and cornbread, smashed spuds grown in our own back forty, and a few other items. Two thirds of us did not have dessert; about the most tempting one I heard of was far away, a triple coconut pie the description of which rivaled the ambrosia of Greek myth. Unattainable, thus ultimately covetable; perfect, and no extra slabbage on the hips.