I started the morning by reading the paper and ignoring the Black Friday ads and then working on matting some digital images that have been stacking up. This of coarse was done with my jazz playing on the computer and hot coffee. While I was pretending to be working (matting images is not work but don't tell Carol) Carol was busing getting the thanksgiving dinner ready
Now that the turkey is on it is providing a wonderful perfume in the house that no cosmetic counter in all of the department stores in all of the world can match. Time is fast approaching when I must begin the complex task of creating the potato dish. One of the few tasks assigned to me by the Cook General in her all out assault on thinness.
The attack on thinness has come to a lull so we had a quiet fire going (only getting up to 40 degrees outside maybe) and decided to listen to Beethoven's 9th . Wonderful piece! For the first time I understood how he started developing the theme in the first movement (the movement is called Allegro ma non troppo but I prefer the think of an old girlfriend, Allegra Troppo). He continues to develop the theme throughout the rest of the movements coming to full maturity in the final movement with the Choral singing the "Old to Joy" to the full throated theme. Wonderful afternoon.
By the way, for those that are interested I have started posting my images in a portfolio on Tumblr
Enjoy the Holiday all you good folk (Bad Ones can suck it)
