Inappropriate handling of a woman

Only a small mystery in this photo:

The mystery is not who (I confess, is me), but rather what (am I doing!)

 

Our leaves are finally Falling, very pretty:

 

Until this last week, we were getting flowers from our yard:

And the Stink bugs are doing their annual Fall invasion.   I heard they stink when squished, so I was battling them by trying to just strategically squishing their brains, as brains don’t stink (at least they shouldn’t).    Then I got curious and big time squished a couple.    No stink:

I was actually a little disappointed.    I was going to invent a stink bomb contraption that auto squished a bunch of them and hurl it at this Rat who keeps stealing the bird’s food.   Lacking that, I just yelled at him, which seemed to work also:

We got a sneak peak at the first draft of the self help motivation book that Nick wrote this summer.   I loaded it up on the Ipad, then Helen started reading it when driving to/from a party.   It was so engaging, I had a hard time getting her out of the car!

This photo is from one of our recent parties.    She is teaching the dog how to hide low in the forest then stick his leg up in order to trip up a bad guy flying low over head on a Star Wars flying motorcycle.  I think the the $8 billion Disney Star Wars franchise resurrection should use dogs in stead of wookies.

 

Our friends fireplace behind Helen inspired me to re-do our living room fireplace.   I converted it from a sand pit vented burner to a metal/glass ventless burner, so we can run without so much wasted heat up the chimney.   Really pretty with all the reflections:

 

My other project has been how to curtain up our vast window wall.   After 2 summers and winters, I‘ve concluded that the temperature swing is too much with uncovered windows.    For the last few months, every week, I decided on a new curtain type.   Then switched to another scheme the next week.    Finally, motorized cellular shades stuck for a month, so I ordered a test shade from the internets:

Works great!  Tomorrow I order the other 15 shades,  $4000 worth!    Still better than the $12,000 estimate I got from the local shade guys.

So, back to that initial mischievous Bruce picture.      My hand is indeed mis-placed on a woman’s body, but her head was also mis-placed, so I didn’t feel so bad:

We are helping Irena dress up a mannequin for posting some of her fancy cloths on Craigslist:

Helen is having fun taking embarrassing photos of us in the process:

And trying to teach me (unsuccessfully) how to model:

This is our model admiring our new curtain:

Irena made Helen promise not to mess with her mannequin until after we have all her photos done, as she knows Helen’s propensity for unusual modifications.     But after she has her photos,  then she says Helen can have her.      I’m more than a little bit scared of what might come of that!

 

Bruce