Chris and I are having a great day in the kitchen. He made homemade mozzarella - bless him and I whipped up pizza dough and a bunch of toppings. Lisa, Mike and the *kids* read: dogs - are coming by for supper. It's cold outside but very very sunny and our kitchen has perfect southern exposure so it's a warm place to be today.

I had a great time at dinner last night - lovely food, a few stiff drinks and a glass or two of wine and it was smooth sailing. The weather was perfectly insane yesterday though. Huge blasts of wind - trees down all over town, electricity knocked off a few times. Quite weird and a bit frightening as our house is surrounded by gigantic old sycamores and oaks. I was worried about our majestic Japanese maple, but it looks okay.

Daylight savings time started last night which seems so early. It's weird. Oh well, gotta go open a bottle of Pinot Noir...