its the great pumpkin!

more pics later!



Doug has never had roasted pumpkin seeds...

reformation

Beka got the latest issue of "The Lutheran" yesterday. It included a tear out poster of the 95 Theses.

While nailing wasn't possible, we improvised.
And laughed a lot.

so we can all rest easy tonight

In Doug's pondering's of halloween costumes, he came up with the idea of being the crosswalk signal -- wearing all black and outlining himself in white lights. Then he goes, "It'd be cool if I could flip a switch and then have a ———— appear."

Doug thinks it is an orange hand.
Beka thinks it is a red hand.

So being reasonable individuals, we asked our friends and family. We emailed. Beka posted on Facebook. We even asked 2 people on the street (Ok, Ok, it wasn't two strangers on the street, we already knew Alison and Brian).

So here go some answers:

We asked people from across the nation this question in a way that did not suggest a color to respond with. This resulted in answers we were not intending like, amber, blue, and "any color".
Two people followed their answer with, I hope you're right Beka! comments (Although Doug exaggerates this number).
But apparently a good issue as only two people did not respond and there were some detailed comments:

"Personally I don't care what color they are...they just don't give old farts like me enough time to putter across before they stick that damn hand up there...then I don't know if I should go back where I came from or just hall ass to the other side. Sheesh...control-freak nazi bastards!"

"We could go with the existential argument that color only exists because we say it does."

Oh wait, those are both Beka's mother — who never responded with a color...

"the answer is clearly orange. It is not red. Because it is a Stop signal, I think many of us would automatically think that it's red. However, red is wrong"

"when this email came through, I scanned it quick and saw the words "domestic dispute", "white person" and "color" and started to panic, thinking this was going to be some kind of racial thing."

Also brought up was the question of how fast one was traveling, the fact that the town where they resided just got a first traffic light in recent past, and the use of the proper Crayola definitions.

Doug looked it up on the DOT website. Apparently the DOT says it is orange. Doug took this as a victory, however, Beka thinks perception is still a stronger indicator.

9 people said red (plus two who followed their comment with, "but it should be red")
6 people said orange
6 said red-orange
1 said amber, and
2 fall in the any/other category

Beka thinks this speaks for itself.

fall, fall, fall

Beka made a butternut squash soup with apples, cinnamon, garlic, veggie bacon crumbles. As it was the combination of 2 recipies and she had never made anything with butternut squash, it was pretty tasty.

fortune cookies

Who makes this up?

thurrrrsday

We made beer bread for the potluck in our building... it was very popular.
Doug found this funny...

After a sneeze attack, Doug said that he had never seen himself sneeze.
Beka asked if he was Ross, and then took a video of it.
Then Doug laughed hysterically over the video.

gator love

We're stocking up on the gator paraphenalia.

Seriously though, gator fans, this is the time for buying a hoodie -- cheap.

To match Doug...

To match Beka...

They have other teams cheap too -- but we don't know why you'd want to do that.

why we love fall

www.MagicHat.net

on the hunt

We prepared for our hunt with french toast and pumpkin butter...

We then headed out to various thrift stores, H&M, the Levi's store, and the Greenmarket.
Our favorite mannequins are the ones without heads and holding a machete.
Oddly enough, Doug found the shirt he was wearing.
But by the end of the day, Doug found new jeans, new t-shirts, and a nice Banana Republic Hunka Chunka. Beka found a new fall coat (suitable for rainy days too), grey cords, a new shirt, and an interesting theological article from the newsstand. The trip was complete with new platters, lots of fresh fruits and veggies, and a street vendor yelling out "Ya don't get 5 pages in Vanity Fair with the shell game" as he tried to sell everyone some kitchen gadget that really did slice, dice, and make crinkle cut fries.


The kitties were happiest when we came home and let them play in the paper wrapping.

signs of progress

Your name on a mailbox in the astrophysics department at Columbia University...

amy winehouse approved

"I dyed a hundred times,
You go back to her,
and I go back to ... #562 bright auburn brown"

love from florida

Thank you to Beka's mom for much coveted Publix cookies and the best peanut butter in the entire world (really).

freak on a leash

We got a harness/lead for a cat should we need to take both of them somewhere (they probably both can't fit in our carrier).

So to introduce it to them, we let each of them wear it and play with it for a while. While each one wore it and became increasingly upset to be wearing it, the other one played with the leash trailing behind...

Don't worry, we won't be the crazy cat people walking their cats in the park...

gators/lsu

Gators vs LSU
Beka and Doug vs the Tavern

The upstairs was closed, and the place was pretty packed. They ran out of cups and red bull (for the jaeger bombs at each touchdown). The substitute was shots of straight jaeger out of what looked like communion cups. But, we still got our own baskets of wings and fries and found out that anything on draft was available as a free option (including Blue Moon, Yuelingling, and Stella).

official!!!

Doug's project is official!
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