California Rolling

I made Zach's favorite dinner last night: California Rolls. He digs these in much the same way a vampire likes blood. Fairly picky about what he eats lately, he nonetheless doesn't merely eat California Rolls, he inhales them. He ate everything I made, and he greedily hungered for more. I can still picture him licking the last sticky rice particles off his plate with a ravenous look in his eyes. Then he looked up from his plate and gave me a look like anything could happen.

I slowly withdrew my hands from the table and crouched down low in my chair to avoid being consumed in the feeding frenzy.

Avalanche!

We have very ugly green metal awnings on our house, and they are not long for the world. We plan to remove and dispose of them in the spring. Of course, I have been planning to remove them every spring since 2001, but this time I think we're serious.

These awnings are easy to forget about, they are very familiar and boring. But every winter when it snows we are reminded of them anew, as the snow builds up on them and then releases in waves of mini avalanches. Heather said the "event" this morning was pretty spectacular as awning avalanches go, it startled the whole house and now the dogs are circling the living room like agitated sharks.

What will we do for mid-winter entertainment next year, I wonder...