The Urban Pantheist

Angel Pecan.

The conversation pit.

Have I mentioned lately how excited I am that Rock Band is coming back? Not that we ever stopped playing.

Jim?


JIM!!!!


Also Alex got Alexis a shirt with a picture of Maggie on it.
From here: http://www.doggietops.com/collections/841951-custom-designs/products/9339052-t-shirt-customized-design

We'd had enough of being out in the cold and came in to watch a movie.
("Out of Sight" JLo and Clooney in 1998 film of an Elmore Leonard story. Meh. I got it because I liked Jackie Brown so much. Too Hollywood.)

Alex and Jim came over to play, before the next storm arrives.

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New Years Day! Alex and I getting our Rock Band on.

Alex is under there somewhere, with her dog Jim, and my dogs Charlie and Maggie (in case you're new here).


Alex brought over a little Victory in a bottle, which gleamed like liquid gold in the sun.


The Norway maple in the front yard decided this weekend was the right time to drop all its leaves.


Look, it's foster puppy Pocket! She looks cute in the leaves, but she kind of looks cute everywhere.

My friend Alex recently bought a new house. She's getting the full experience of being responsible for the animals that let themselves inside. I have to say I'm very proud of her--she was quite aware that there were at least two species in her bedroom, but did not kill them since they will do more good than harm. I identified one right away as a yellow sac spider, but I had more trouble with this one.

My friend Keith identified it for me: it's a broad-faced sac spider, Trachelas tranquilis. It looks fairly similar to the woodlouse hunter but is not closely related. Like the yellow sac spider it makes a silk refuge to hide in during the day and actively hunts at night. The entry on bug guide adds "...will frequently enter houses by accident in the autumn," which also helps identify it. This individual gets its studio-quality portrait from posing on the window blinds (it was trying to hide and I spooked it out to photograph it).

This craptastic selfie is my 3:00 snapshot, like it or not. Someone in the bar saw me doing it and came over to do it right.

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