A Tribute To Turkey

Turkeys gobble in the dead of night

Take your stunted wings and learn to fly

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

Turkeys gobble in the dead of night

Take your creepy eyes and learn to see

All your life

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

Turkey-birds fly Turkey-birds fly

Into the arms of the dark black night.

Turkey-birds fly Turkey-birds fly

Into cavernous convection ovens.

Turkeys gobble in the dead of night

Take your sassy snood and learn to be

In my belly

You were only waiting for this moment to be yummy.

The Anticipatory First Snow

11/17/14      

10:23 PM (now typing at 10:46 PM EST)

Part I:

Tomorrow, there is a 60% chance of snow with a high of 27 degrees. (Correction, the updating forecast now says 50%. It has gone down, sad face, since checking the forecast earlier today just after lunch). Despite not feeling well, under the weather one might say, I took a trip out to the farm to harvest cabbages. I feared one more frost might do them in; some already showed their blistered leaves damaged from the cold.



A dozen red cabbages were ready and two green heads were salvageable after the cabbage loopers finished their fall feasting. What I will do it all this cabbage remains to be seen, and yes, that's right, this story is about snow.

I'm about to go to bed and already thinking about peeking through the blinds in the morning, ass checks and below still under the covers - I had to wiggle my upper half out to reach the window.

If there is snow, I know I will snuggle back under the covers excitedly to warm my upper extremities. My phone will be within reach in case work should call inquiring to my whereabouts, not that I will let it get to that point anyway. More likely, my boss with text to say "only come to the office if it is safe to travel." This was always a joke of Jenna and myself as we live in walking distance from the office - of course we can make it there safely.

If there is no snow, I will hunker back under the covers none-the-less. We've been extremely frugal with the heat setting the thermostats at 48 degrees upstairs and almost 60 downstairs. Getting out from under covers heated by an electric blanket these cold mornings is always a tragic struggle. In case you were wondering, we huddle around the same space heater I had at Stanley Street most often to be found in the kitchen...

WE LANDED ON A COMET GUYS

I know I'm late you guys, but did you know that the Rosetta Space Probe successfully landed on a comet yesterday!!?

Rosetta Space Probe lands on comet

The Descent of Philae Toward the Comet in Tweets



This is so exciting. This landing has been planned for 10 years! I couldn't imagine being a scientist and sending this thing up 10 years ago, hoping something stupid wouldn't happen before it makes it's landing. It's like "Armageddon", but with no Bruce Willis and no Liv+Ben love story, and it's real. This probe is going to be riding around our solar system, orbiting the sun at 85,000 mph, collecting soil samples and other data about the comet and the space it's riding through.

We are going to learn so much from this; I'm nerding out over here!!

"After more than 10 years traveling through space, we’re now making the best ever scientific analysis of one of the oldest remnants of our Solar System."

Here's a look at key moments during Rosetta's incredible trip:

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March 2, 2004: Europe's unmanned probe Rosetta takes off from Kourou, French Guiana, after a series of delays, including an abandoned January 2003 launch window because of a rocket problem.

Feb. 25, 2007: Rosetta carries out a close flyby of Mars. European Space Agency's mission control breaks out in applause after the end of 15 tense minutes of radio silence as the craft passes behind the Red Planet.

Sept. 5, 2008: Probe successfully passes close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft loses its radio signal for 90 minutes as planned during the flyby of the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867.

July 10, 2010: Between Mars and Jupiter, Rosetta transmits its first pictures from the largest asteroid ever visited by a satellite after it flies by Lutetia as close as 1,900 miles (3,200 kilometers). It is the closest look to date at the Lutetia asteroid.

Jan. 20, 2014: Waking after almost three years of hibernation, Rosetta sends its first signal back to Earth. Systems had been powered down in 2011 to conserve energy, leaving scientists in the dark for 31 months.

Aug. 6, 2014: Rosetta swings alongside comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Nov. 12, 2014: The probe releases the Philae lander and it drops to the comet's surface. Seven hours later, Philae touches down on the comet.

Forest

I walked through the forest,
I followed the narrow path,
Shadowed by the children
Of the trees.

They watched me quietly
With those wild eyes;
Glassy round and wide

Beautiful copies of yours and mine.

Volcano erupts on a deserted Cape Cod

Woahh I had a dream that a volcano was erupting on Cape Cod and I was in the car with La and Nina and Lisa driving away and saw it erupt in the distance. And in the dream I was like "it's sooo funny that to counter strike a volcano they were able to evacuate the entirety of cape cod in one day". And you guys were like, whatever Gaby, you're such a nerd. It was just like real life!

LOL It was so crazy!

And also really pretty when it erupted.

Feels like

A million bucks
kissing a summer breeze
slowly slipping down to grace
the still waters of a fountain
black and cream and green.

A girl.

Once in the world there was a girl who could only speak in a box full of muffins.

She had nine toes and one nose and a tiny mark on her hip that looked like a chicken.

If she rolled on her side at night, the mark made a noise like this - baaagahhhhhk!  ha!

One day this girl purled a whole scarf, well, knit a whole scarf if you look at it backwards.

Then she took the scarf and she wore it to a play on the life of Shakespeare.

Which was not like his plays at all and it sort of dragged until the end when, well, I won't say...don't want to ruin the ending.

It should be clear to you now that this girl was the coolest.