Amy's birthday

 Happy birthday to our dear, lovely Amy!  We had a lovely time carving pumpkins in the park.

Hooray for Amy and a happy Halloween to all!

Jack's first day of kindergarten

 Some of you may have noticed we have not been putting up many pictures lately.  That's because blogspot changed the way you post and it has taken me this long to figure it out.  Needless to say, we have a little catching up to do.  These are from Jack's first day of kindergarten!

Way to go Jack!

529!!!

Occupied!!!

Finn and I went down to Occupy Los Angeles this weekend - it was pretty amazing how many tents there were! Not surprisingly, there were some crazies – they seemed mostly like homeless people hanging out with the movement. But there were also a lot of people who seemed really committed to causing change, and there were a lot of articulate people with booths, flyers, signs, etc.  And I would say that good old Tom Joad was definitely in one of those tents : )

Finn and I walked around, listened to some people, and played chess. I was happy that we occupied L.A. for a little while : )

Martin Simpson!!!

The wonderful Martin Simpson : )

Daydream 2!!!

Welch!!!

Happy Birthday to Gillian Welch!!! She finally has a new album out, and I would say that half of it is great. The other half is a little grim for me, but she's always worth hearing. Here's one of the songs that I really like (with a strange video from Paper Moon):