Thanksgiving and belated introduction

My Thanksgiving/holiday cactus is actually blooming at the time of year it's supposed to! I was amazed, being as we thought this thing was gonna crap out on us shortly after we bought it, but that was probably a couple years ago by now. The terrarium thing is a "rare" specimen of Madagascar palm, which so far seems to mainly just be growing mold. Plus, Annie made the point of exactly how rare can it be if you can buy it in the store for less than 6 bucks? Oh well, I will let it mold a little longer before I give up and toss the dang thing.

Wild turkeys at the farm, where we went for Thanksgiving. I'm not sure if they have names, but they aren't for eating anyways, just for looks. I guess if you put food out and you live on a farm, any turkeys that are happening by will take up residence. These even let me pet them, even though I may have still had the faint scent of turkey on my breath from an awesome Thanksgiving dinner. Sorry 'bout that, gobblers.

We did NOT come home from Thanksgiving with a new kitten, this situation took place back in the summer, it's just taken me an extra special long time to get to the introducing. This itty gray tabby is Yukiko, or mostly Yuki for short. Not to be confused with the not so itty Itty who is behind her. After Ghost got kicked out for his peeing problem, Itty seemed morose and I was toying with the idea of trying to talk Terry into getting Itty a friend, since Gizmo had gone on to her just reward (a one way trip to the farm), even though Gizmo and Itty weren't cat friends anyway. Annie had stayed at the farm for a weekend, and when we stopped by to pick her up, this gray kitty jumped on my back like a parrot and screeched please take me home this is a barn it stinks in here. We found out the cat had been there for less than an hour, she was actually one of the neighbor's horde of kittens, and he had told Paul to bring some to the farm, and he had randomly reached down into the teeming mass and scooped this one up. And it made me fall in love with it in five minutes, and I brought it home. Terry wanted to call her Lucky, but I thought that sounded like a dog's name, so I tried to fancy it up, and Yukiko *supposedly* loosely translates into "lucky girl" in Japanese. But she's not going to be lucky much longer if she keeps trying to eat my dang frog!

Annie is a doof

Sorry about the ittiness of this pic, Annie emailed it to me and my html skills are severely limited. She and her friend Holly spent a fair amount of time cos-playing, or larping, or whatever you call it (huh, back in the day, we just called it.....playing) in the back yard. At any rate, Annie is really into this anime thingy called Full Metal Alchemists, and I'm not sure if she dragged Holly along with her, or if it was the other way around. Holly is quite talented and actually MADE that coat thing, with her own two hands. I don't have much clue what the show is about, beyond it involves alchemy (which I think is what that big symbol is doing to that rock up there, I'm hoping it turns into a pile o' money, a big ass flat screen tv, or maybe just a maid), and I think the Metal comes in because they have like arms or legs or various appendages made of metal, why this is so I have no clue.

I just hope nobody shows up at the door tomorrow asking about the Satanist who was in the backyard on Sunday afternoon. Wearing red cape like things and drawing symbols on the ground might look somewhat strange to the casual observer. Oh, and I'm supposed to give photo credit to Holly.