A Roast Pig and a Purple Battle Ostrich and a Flying Skunk

 The season of glorious sunsets has started and this is the one right before the remains of1 hurricane Noel hit. We weathered the storm well and only lost power for the afternoon and early evening. Chickens got wet but they would rather stand under their shelters out of the wind than go inside the coop where they would also be dry.  

Our friends at Native Earth Teaching Farm in CHilmark had planned their annual pig roast and the invite was for the day after the storm.  They braved the storm to pig a pit for the pig and the party was on. It is always fun to visit their animals before pigging out. Here are their pygmy goats.  

 And here is the pig being unearthed and pulled from the pit.

 Loaded into a truck and driven over to the picnic site. Sometimes they spit roast the pig, which I prefer because the skin gets so wonderfully crunchy, but the weather just didn't cooperate.

 I continue to play a lot of WoW (World of Warcraft). My main character is a level 70 Draenei hunter named Zaw with her pet Ume (a tallstrider but looks like a purple battle ostrich to me) on the Echo Isles server.

 Mariko and David gave us the most massive set of wind chimes imaginable!  They hang in the sunroom and the longest tube is 51". The bass tubes are tuned to the Japanese octive. You can hear them here at Music of the Spheres .  We hung them in the sunroom and when the windows are open in there, there is a gentle, deep random gonging. The finches don't seem to notice it.

 And Mariko predicts the hit "in" thing for an Island holiday ornament will be this flying skunk angel. It is darling and is flying off the Donaroma shelves. We went by yesterday to get another collection of small ferns because the finches love to tear them apart and line nests with the fronds. 

Tom continues to feel fine and the Winter Solstice Party is on and planned for Dec 23 - about as late as we ever have it since it has to be on a Sunday close to the Solstice. I've started working on the invites and will post one here when done.