Cold and rainy in Seattle tonight.  At home with cat and husband.  Making an Italian dinner - husband making dinner, I am reading and blogging - and looking forward to warm cider, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" and making Halloween costumes.

Almost-empty tea mugs sit on the coffee table (ironic) from reading together earlier this afternoon.  Feathers strewn on the floor from cat destroying cat toy earlier this afternoon.

Sound of knife on a cutting board, water boiling, timer beeping.  Smell of garlic.

Snuggle.