Happy Halloween

Roasted pumpkin guts yummm! All of the recipes say

to wash the seeds. I don't understand why. The inside of

the pumpkin is pretty clean and pumpkins are edible. So

I just let them dry out over night and then sprinkle them

with garlic salt and roasted for 15 minuets at 350 degrees.

Noah wanted to draw Thomas the train.

Dad carved Jonas' into a skull.

His fastest Halloween carving to date.

Noah in the glow of Jonas' skull.

My wife with sunflower eyes

(on our tenth anniversary)

I remember,

your sunflower eyes,

reminding me

to be the way I want to be.

I remember,

North Shore, the Poconos,

keeping our toes from dangling in Seneca Lake,

airing out a room in Escalante,

oh, do you remember what we did in Arizona?

I remember,

Ten years now

it has been you and I

thinking about what makes us.

Memories,

good more than bad.

I remember,

you and I became we

and we became the four of us.

So many similarities and so many differences,

like our numbers in bed.

So grateful for ten.

How to cook a catfish

Pa told me once the best way to cook a catfish.

First start with a big blue cat,

like the one in your bucket.

Take time to clean it well.

Now leave the eyes in, that be the best part.

After you cut it from tail to lips

Rip those guts out real damn quick.

Find a few steaming horse apples and stick’em inside.

Wrap it with thistle and a little rosemary.

Bury it at the bottom of a small fire pit,

get it lit,

after about three hours put the fire out.

Dig it up,

unwrap it,

put what’s inside on a plate,

and throw the cat away.