This is my favorite time of year! We have our one big party on Halloween...the Saturday night before Treat or Treat that is. It is a special day for me...I throw away the frustrations of work and finances and go all out to have fun for me and my friends. We purchase a big deli platter from Giant and everyone chips in to bring all sorts of delicious desserts and special foods. We also decorate our whole house with Halloween figures and art.  And the kids love seeing my famous HO train scenes with games and prizes for finding the most items on the set. Take a look at some of the Halloween photos from previous years.....It is a Boo-tiful sight!

Last Thursday I had the priviledge of meeting Justin Frank at the Barnes and Nobles bookstore in Georgetown. He wrote the excellent book, "Bush on the Couch," and talked a bit about it at a "meet the author" session at the book store. I had purchased the hardback edition earlier  ( before the election ) and he was promoting his new edition with an added epilogue. He autographed both copies  for me! This book is a must read!

For those of you that know me, you also know that I host an annual Halloween party every year at my house the Saturday night before Treat or Treat. This year the day comes on October 29. If you would like to come, please contact me at my e-mail address from the contact me button. Click on the link above or on the favorite photoshow page to see photos from previous year's party.

New Orleans has been subject to so much devastation and misery. We see the horrible photos and videos almost every day. I decided to take some of the photos of New Orleans I took in 2002 while on a week's vacation and put them in a photoshow to show what was, and what can be again.....Germany and Japan had to rebuild their entire countries after WWII....New Orleans, with the help of the rest of us can rebuild too...and even be a better place!

I put together our first try at a photoshow from our New Mexico trip. The laptop (in our hotel room)can not do as well as our home desktop due to memory constraints, but I wanted to try anyway. Our next photoshow of our trip will include animations and humor ( a sensitive word around my work place) but let me know how you like it! Click on the link above or go to my favorite photoshow page. ENJOY!

We have met some really nice  people here in Albuquerque ( hey, I can even spell it without looking now!) and have helped a few ourselves. Yesterday we were at a gift shop in Old Town and a clerk asked me where I worked...when I said TAS, he told me that even though he was the custodial parent and the IRS had frozen his account and refund, not letting him take an exemption for his kid. I referred him to the the local TAS office. And today, a man and his wife ran out of gas near our hotel and I got him a gallon of gas to get him on his way. We had a nice trip on the Sandia Peak Tram yesterday and got lots more photographs of our trip. And took a peek in the Indian Cultural Museum where the lady who sold us our ticket was from Rockville, MD!