This weekend we had our first pleasant day in about a month, so I took advantage of the moment and planted some spring bulbs with my friend, Carrie Ann. We've had more rain this November than in the last 50+years! It has been truly miserable.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Kevin is in Florida, celebrating Thanksgiving Krentz-style with his Mom, Dad, sister, niece, nephew, brother-in-law, aunt and cousins. He got to ride his friend Mitch's Harley Davidson yesterday. This was the rough equivalent of giving our cat, Obie, a can of wet food: immediately, addictively, satsfying, and not an experience that will soon be forgotten. In fact, I am sure I will hear him meowing for another try for months. However, since it is also a DEATH TRAP, I will do my best to avoid letting this unfortunate event happen again anytime soon.

In the meantime, I am stuck in rainy Seatle all alone for Thanksgiving! I am going over to some friends' house for turkey later today, but it just isn't the same as cooking with family.

This is my adorable GRAND-NIECE ADELINE!!! She is about 4 months old and says, "Go Blue!" All of us University of Michigan fans (Molly-- my neice and Adeline's mom, and I both grew up in Ann Arbor) were very dissapointed in this weekend's big game against OHS. We are all rooting for a re-match. Adeline, Molly, and dad Jarrod live in Colorado Springs, CO. This is not far from Golden and baby Emory (www.gabeandandrea.blogspot.com) , so I now have too many good reasons not to go visit Colorado this summer!

My latest obsession is researching cloth diaper systems. Cloth diapering combines some of my very favorite things: babies, innovative and colorful textiles, functional systems, and oh yeah-- saving the environment, of course. I think I have done enough research to write a small dissertation on cloth diapering... except of course I don't have any data of my own! That will soon change! In anticipation of my new little research subject, this week I bought changing table from Craig's List and it is already stocked with my three different potential cloth diapering systems (also acquired off Criag's List and various local consignment shops). I have the ever popular "Fuzzi Bunz," the classic Chinese Prefolds and Diaperaps, and my all time favorite so far-- the highly adorable and amazingly cuddly "Snap EZ" fleece pocket diaper (that's the one I am holding). I also invested in a some fleece liners(to wick away moisure!) and yes... and few dozen disposables just in case cloth diapering ends up being a complete disaster.

Kevin had a studio class this week in our living room. Here is Weston on the spot and Kevin explaining the complexity of a good vibrato.

Here is the meager fruit of my garden this year: a bunch of green tomatos, a couple red (ripened inside), and one sweet little red pepper. We also got a lot of zucchini, but anyone can grow zucchini!

Hands in motion. CelloKevin practices on Saturday afternoon.

And the walls come tumbling down!

Men at play...
Kevin was a quick learn on the excavator. If the whole cello thing doesn't work out, we definitely have a back-up plan.

Before...

This weekend Kevin made some great progress on the Parking Space Project! Here he is before he starts, with his crew of four: good friend Chris Coward, and two of his students-- Paul and Jason.