Happy Thanksgiving to my family and friends.  I hope you are all enjoying this day with those you love and are able to fill your bellies with plenty of yummy food.

They don't celebrate Thanksgiving here in Egypt, though I am not averse to celebrating it myself.  Just not quite the same if you're the only one celebrating and there aren't any of the usual trappings.  Being with others who celebrate is what makes it so great.

Maybe next year I will get it together enough to make a Thanksgiving dinner for hubby and his family.  I wanted to the first year I lived here and this year I just kind of fizzled on it.  Perhaps due to being sick or who knows what.

I heard it was snowing in the UK and I was a little sad that the weather here is decidedly not really in the realm of Fall yet much less Winter.  It was 77 or so today.  Maybe this is what it's like to live in Los Angeles for the holidays.  Northern California gets more seasonal weather than those living down in the southern half of the state.

In honor of today, here is a little friend I found some years back.  He always makes me smile.  :D

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The weather has been strange actually.  It takes a long time until it seems to finally settle down into Fall here.  We had temps as high as the 90's just a couple weeks ago and the high 80's the past week or so, but I think it's finally made up its mind now and hopefully we won't see anything above the very low 80's and even that should go soon and we'll have 60's and 70's and I can complain about how cold I am.  lol

We finally stopped using the a/c for the season and have yet to use the heater, so at least we're saving some money on the energy bill.  We just have the lightest of blankets on the bed, I'm not sure you could even call it a blanket, but I'm at a loss as to anything else to call it.  Pretty soon we'll take the "winter" blanket to the cleaners so we can use it and put this light one away.

The water heater in the bathroom will probably start staying on more now.  During the summer it's not on as much because it's so hot you don't need that much hot water.  And the water stays pretty warm anyways without the heater, but boy oh boy in the winter you really want that hot water.  I just wish the hose we use in the bathroom had hot water.  Boy that water is a shocker in the cold of winter.

We did have a hot water heater in the kitchen so I could have hot water to do dishes, but there is some problem with it and it's not working.  I think we'll need to get it fixed soon because it gets pretty cold in the house during winter and I can't be washing dishes in cold water.  My hands will get frostbite or something.  lol

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Alright, I will endeavor, now that I have the new computer, to finish editing the pyramid walk pictures and get those posted in the next week or so.  Hurrah!

Todays video is of the roof on the buiding across the street.  It seems every year they get a sheep to slaughter for Eid and they keep itup on the roof until they kill it.  Well, we've also seen a mother cat and kittens on the roof recently and so this video shows both the sheep and one of the ktitens.

Here is a link to the video on youtube:  video

I have to say, it was nice hearing the sheep make his blaaating sounds.  Something different anyways.  And definitely nicer than the continual sound of traffic we hear.

Now, even though the sheep is gone, I still hear the kitten at times.  Or some kitten anyways.

The other night when we were coming home from the in-laws, we walked into the entry  for our building and there was a mother cat standing and two kittens feeding from her.  While standing.  The whole thing seemed very strange and they were apparently skittish of strangers and so the mom started walking to avoid us and of course the kittens followed.  To tell you the truth I'm not even sure they were both her kittens.  You never know!



Happy gobbles to you all, enjoy your parades and football and food.