It's beginning to look a lot like ...

What to our wondering eyes did appear this morning but Christmas Eve snow! The pretty kind, too: big, fat, wet flakes drifting down like feathers. Of course, considering that it was 70 yesterday, it's not going to stick long, but it was pretty while it lasted (and I'm not too sorry that it melted immediately on the roads, seeing as how I have some last-minute errands to run before Christmas).

Faith was very excited to get out and play in it, but Eric, while excited about seeing it through the windows, balked at actually going out in it. We just coaxed him out for a few moments to take this picture.

We hope everyone's Christmas is merry!

Speaking of bad Jane Austen sequels...

I saw 2 copies of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre at the used book store the other day. Apparently, the reason he was so cold to Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice wasn't his titular pride; it was because he borrowed a plot device from Twilight and was so attracted to her he was afraid he was going to tear her throat out in the throes of passion.

I suppose it's a rational progression from Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. Personally, I'm waiting for Sense & Sensibility & SAW, in which Fanny Dashwood persuades her husband John to torment his half-sisters by placing them in contrived situations where they are forced to choose between maiming each other and torturous death and Willoughby reveals his villainy when he chooses to disembowel Marianne rather than face severe facial disfigurement.

A very short, quick fairy tale

Faith told me this story in a great hurry:

Once upon a time, there was a prince and a princess, and they saw each other, and the princess said, "I want to marry you," and the prince said, "Okay," and they went to a wedding, and they kissed each other, and they lived happily ever after, The End.

Odd juxtapositions

Yesterday, I was stopped at a traffic light next to a pickup with one of those magnetic signs popular among small businesses on its door. It advertised "computers and landscaping," which seemed like an unusual mix of specialties to me.

It reminded me of a sign I saw in front of a seafood restaurant in a strip mall this fall which advertised a "steak and hot dog combo." Those are two foods I never thought of serving together at the same meal -- and from a seafood restaurant, as well. It was, at least, budget-friendly, as I recall the price being something like $2.99. Oh, and sno-cones were also available, if you wanted some dessert.