Rainy Sunday

It's cold, and raining.  So much of each, that my body is instinctively telling me to bulk up for the rigors of a freezing winter.  Thus the double serving of nachos, birthday cake, approximately six clementines, two eggs, toast, banana, etc.  Yeah, I'm pulling the nature card.  Somewhere way back in the dust of history, we can thank our ancestors for filling us with the same need all the fat squirrels in our backyards have driving them, the need to put on as much weight as possible so we can hunker down under blankets and wait out the cold season's passing.  Of course, this instinctive desire was invented way before we had things like seven eleven and free delivery pizza, but why split hairs?  I'll take a great excuse any day.  Pass the cheese.

Black Friday

Today is the day the people traditionally line up like lemmings and begin their holiday shopping frenzy.  You can almost smell the rampant consumerism floating on the breeze this morning.  We'd like to take just a moment of  your time to remind you to SHOP LOCAL.  Think about it.  Every penny you spend in your community supporting local business' is a penny that will go to enriching the lives of your friends and family.  Why give you hard earned cash to some mega corporation in China or the Walton family?  They have enough, I promise.  Besides, something crafted and purchased locally is like giving two gifts...  You get to have something with character for your loved ones, and you get to help make sure that the people around you, who are all connected by that invisible spiderweb that is our community, can do the same.  Sounds like a no brainer to us.

 

Follow up

Why two posts in one day?  I guess because having only one post up makes me feel kinda funny.  It's easy to sit back and rant when you have pile of material underneath you.  So think of this as part of the foundation that will lead to ranting.  And raving.  But not the kind with glow sticks.  I promise.

  

And we're, ummm.... Off?

  I have a friend who claims that blogs are for self - important know it all's with nothing better to do but talk about themselves to people they don't know. 

 "Perfect!" I thought.  And here we are.

 I mean, it's Thanksgiving.   It's eight in the morning.  I have coffee, a warm couch (made, of course, of brown wide - wale corduroy), more dogs than I can conveniently count (two) and a Disney movie.  No no, it's not for me, it's for my boss, but still.  What more can a person ask for?  Naturally I felt the need to go online and brag to everyone who would listen.  Which is probably no one, but that's okay.  In fact, it's almost better.  

 All these months of constantly having to update one of the several work blogs / websites has left me with a need to spend at least twenty minutes every morning hen pecking around the ol' Macbook keyboard.  At least it gives me something constructive to do (or at least makes me appear constructive) while drinking coffee.  

 Whatever happened to Billy Joel?

 Eye candy?  Of course!  Check some pics from the past couple weeks... We had the Wild Care Benefit at the Island Merchant, a show at this place in Falmouth with Sara Leketa and Don McCloskey, you know, the usual good times...