Chopping Purple Potatoes and Other Holiday Activities

Potatoes as purple as grape juice!

Purple lettuce to match

Mom actually stopped studying long enough to make soup with the purple potatoes.

Unser Gluckschwein

Fourteen or twenty-four?

Moving through the Harry Potter books. . .already at Chapter 8 in The Chamber of Secrets!

Who's Tallest?

(Bonus Photo)

What a nice kid.

 Who's tallest?  I am.   (Ha!)    Photo from end of Sept. 2010

Reading, Reading, Reading

Reading at bedtime. . .


The next morning. . .



Reading all day??


I think he was so absorbed in reading that he had too little attention left over to process my question.

Who's that Girl?

I was at London Hair on Thursday.  An interesting young girl was getting her hair cut, and she let me take her picture.  

She didn't have money to cover her haircut, so I bought her some winter boots and brought her home with me.








At 4:30am the next morning she was packed and ready by the door wearing my favorite jacket and asking for a ride to the train station. . . destination Seattle, WA.  Didn't she have to go to school?  Her train ticket was for an adult.  Maybe she was older than I'd thought?

Is she going off to Seattle to be a poet?  To drink Starbucks mochas in their birthplace?



She seemed like the type.  But if so, why was she carrying body armor with her?  I mean, I know Seattle might have some rough areas.  But body armor???

. . .met up with some interesting characters at the train station. . .



I hope she comes back soon!  I feel safer knowing she has the body armor, Droid phone and big sword with her.  And the friend who knows Kung Fu . . .

In the Presence of Greatness

Some people dress up like someone else on Halloween.   With Pascal I almost get the feeling that Halloween is the one day of the year that he dresses like his true self.