Commies!

So I'm pretty used to the various political wackiness that goes on in this town, I find it kind of funny really. Just before the election I used some choice words in response to LaRouche supporters (those are just seriously bad people). But I have to say The Communist Revolutionary Party Seattle here may in fact go to the point of absurdity. As you can see they have chosen the largest shopping area in the city to do their recruiting. I can see it now "Oh yeah, we'll be right there between Macy's and Nordstrom, just in front of the mall. No, not that mall, the other mall next to that one." I also notice that their sign is encouraging revolution, now I am not a linguist but I am pretty sure that means violent overthrow of the government, and really that isn't cool. We get the first decent president elected since I graduated high school and these three fools (and I'm pretty sure that is the depth of their numbers) think that it is time for a revolution? Anyway, whenever I thinks somebody is loopy I can generally find somebody stranger in this town. Oh and finally don't these people read papers? Communism doesn't work so well.

I'm Sorry I thought this was Seattle. (Icefest 2008?)

Here in Seattle we don't get a lot of snow really. A light dusting every couple of years disrupts the city on a large scale. This is what Christmas in Seattle normally looks like.

But sometimes you get storms that look like this....

And this...

And this...

It leaves the city crippled and under a foot of snow looking like this. As you can see we don't have snowplows here. Thankfully I am done with my finals since some of them have now been postponed until January. Sam has been the lone employee at her job for a couple of days. It is odd to see a major city almost completely shut down, we only even hear one or two ambulances a night living next to the trauma hospital as we do.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year it was just the two of us (you can sing the song in your head if you would like). I made biscuits (no picture unfortunately, they were so beautiful that a picture just couldn't quite capture it) and the pumpkin pies. Ahhh, pumpkin pie...delicious. Rafe made everything else.

We had chicken instead of turkey. After this picture was taken the chicken had to go back into the oven. It was having some issues. Unfortunately by the time it was finished cooking, we were also finished eating. That's right, we just couldn't wait. It was there for our sandwiches the next day though.


Mmmm, pie.
Our lovely dinner table...not quite big enough to fit all of the food, but what can you do.

As you can see, Rafe had a great Thanksgiving.