1. If you are interested in some ramblings of mine, hopefully not too irreverent, you might want to check out a post I wrote for my friend Melanie's blog, The Wine-Dark Sea. She's doing a series on the articles of the Creed with guest posters from all over. This week, my turn. No pictures, other than the one you get of how my mind works.
2. I really don't think that there are mice, or Rodents of Unusual Size (yikes, but thanks for mentioning rats!) in my pantry. The Chief is setting out traps, but I pulled apart the shelf and there were no signs of the varmints (my high school biology teacher told us that the real division in the animal kingdom is two: Critters (good) and Varmints (bad)). I know the signs. I live in the country. On the other hand, a bold mouse was spotted running across the kitchen (in the other direction). You just never know.
I don't think it was Pippo. If you are following Like Mother, Like Daughter on Twitter (handle, LMLDtweets, and we are going to try to remember to put our initials after our tweets — do follow!), you will know that Pippo is 3000 miles from that particular wire bin.
Never underestimate an smooth operator like him, but, still, seems unlikely. Do link up to {pretty, happy, funny, real} if you haven't already! It's open til Sunday.
3. Back by popular demand, here is the post I wrote you last year that Says It All about getting ready for Thanksgiving when you have lost the caterer's number and the maid ran off with the chauffeur.
For the sake of archival clarity, I am linking you over to the post, but do, do click on the link and read!
Dear Auntie Leila,
Any chance you could post about the things you do to get ready for Thanksgiving?
Love,
Susan
Read the rest here and add your thoughts in the comments! We read each and every comment and reply to questions right there!
Sarah says
Okay, I read you in Google Reader and don't usually comment, but I have to chime in about “critters and varmints.”
I'm going to share with my daughter how your biology teacher divided the kingdoms because she's in a biology class with our home school co-op, and she would love this! We live on an acreage and have had a huge problem this fall with animals of the varmint variety. When they stay out of the barn and the cat food, they're just critters. Lately, they're varmints.
I'm going to use “critter,” and “varmint” along with the word “animal” with my son for a follow up lesson from yesterday on denotation, connotation, and basic definition.
You were more helpful than you knew…;)
Jamie says
See, Auntie, it is a mouse getting ready for winter amongst your yarn.
Or. Maybe. I say this with all reverence and respect. And because my name is Elizabeth as well and I know our kind therefore. Dearest Habou could be just adding a bit of tom foolery to the end of the year fun. I'm just saying you should ask.
_Leila says
Sarah, that's awesome. I remember being greatly edified at the time by the stunning scientific breakthrough that our teacher shared with us.
Kris says
This Thanksgiving post cracked me up last year – and gave me a good laugh again a few minutes ago when I reread it. Amazingly, I had actually tucked away in the recesses of my brain some of your food prep wisdom from last year. First thing this morning I baked my sweet potatoes for an early Thanksgiving dinner we are serving to international students tomorrow night.
I love Like Mother, Like Daughter because I can relate to so much of what you all write. We are a family with 5 girls and 3 boys, ages 3-20. Aunt Leila has journeyed a few years ahead of where I am headed, and I so appreciate her wisdom. Thank you, Aunt Leila, for being a Titus 2 example and sharing in humility (and humor) what you have learned.
Happy Thanksgiving to your family,
Kris in NC