We have a Raccoon!

Last night I was looking out of our sunroom window into the dark front yard, and noticed an animal sitting by the tree that was too big to be one of the many squirrels that hangs around, eating bird seed from the bird feeder, when suddenly some light came from the street and I was like "Wow, we have a badger or what are they called... in our yard, Joe come look!" And sure enough, there was this large sort of fat raccoon just digging away in the dirt eating bird seed and whatever else he was finding, and just staring at us. Joe took his camera outside and of course, the 'coon went up into the tree, hence this great photo. Joe has named him "Old Deuteronomy" from the T.S. Eliot book of poems of Cats. We think maybe he was the cause of some scratchin' we were hearing one late night that sounded like it was from the roof.

Reality TV addiction?

So, somehow I got completely sucked into "Project Runway" this season. Practically can't get enough of it. And the waiting for a new episode on a weekly basis just makes the time inbetween episodes go ever more slowly. I just have to find out "who will be auf'd" each week! In all honesty, this is a really good show as reality TV goes. I am a fan of "Survivor" "the Amazing Race" and things like "Who Will Be the Next Food Network Star?" or "Who Will be the Next HGTV Design Star?" (and by the way, I'm super happy that David won this one!!) But Project Runway just won't let me go. The designers are all fascinating characters, they create "interesting" to "intriguing" to "bizzare" designs, and it's just too fun. And when they fight amongst themselves, it's awesome. :) If you haven't checked it out, you should sometime and you'll see what I mean. -- "Make it work!"

House Interiors

I've finally taken a few shots of the interior of our new house for those of you whom haven't been able to see it yet. So, here's a shot of the master bedroom (actually just a corner of it, it's a very large airy room), a shot of the living room and our lovely sunroom. We are really enjoying the home, and Max is now more at home, too. I'll write more later.

What I'm Reading Lately

So, I've been in sort of a reading funk lately, probably because I've been concentrating a lot on the move into the new house, and being sort of busy at work. But, here's what I have on my nightstand recently. The new book by the author of "A Simple Plan" entitled "The Ruins." A really good, rather spooky, story set in Mexico about four friends who go off to look for an excavation party, but run into some rather harrowing things along the way. Including creepy vines. It's a good well-written story that keeps me on the edge of my seat. I'm also reading Julia Cameron's book about writing "The Right to Write." It's a great book about getting the creative writing juices flowing, with nice tasks to get back to writing. So I've gotten a new "school notebook" to do these exercises and it's been pretty fun. Just getting some creative juices going again is a good thing.