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 on thursday afternoon i was in my kitchen making some eats and my apartment started to glow.  that's one thing i like about my place.  the golden hour, when the light is low on the horizon, filling the world with it's magical golden light, visits me in my place and transforms it into a glowing goldy haven.  i turned around and saw the light burning in the trees of the park and a boy playing amongst the fallen leaves with his bike, toting off big branches that had fallen during the previous week's storm.  this is a perfect moment i said to myself.  but cameras aren't as good as eyes.  one does what one can do.

that bottle of moisturizer on the window ledge has been there since i moved.  judy gave it to me once.  i don't think i have ever used it.  maybe it's time to let it go...

our rs is doing a 90 day challenge of reading the book of mormon.  i'm enjoying it.  and so is archie.  as soon as i begin reading, it doesn't matter where i am--he suddenly appears.  and he needs to be as close to on top of the book as possible.  i took this pic yesterday.  it makes me laugh.  he looks like a bunny for some reason.  he has that stubborn look in his eyes.  don't stubborn a stubborn mister.  pffft says archie. i can out stubborn your stubborn any day.  basically yes.

here is archie the stubborn bunny cat in black and white.

 and since you wanted it--you DID want it, remember?  i include a crop.

and you can't have the colour crop without the black n white.  that's just how things work.

 yesterday i spent most of the day editing wedding photos and nursing a pancake...just kidding, nursing a cold which may have just been allergies.  between friday and saturday i watched all the lord of the rings extended versions.  loooooooooong.

sunday morning i slept in and missed ward council.  i awoke at 8am thankfully because of an old alarm that was still set.  i got up and the first thing i saw was the sunrise soaked up in these fiery trees.   so i took a click with my phone and appreciated.  then i had a shower and was late for church.  the kind of late where you get sacrament in the foyer.

 but i did put together a pretty snazzy outfit if that makes a difference.   it had a lot of neato elements and details including striped knee high socks peeping over grey boots--socks that matched my purply sweater, and my silk fronted blouse with big painted flowers and grey knit pencil skirt and rosy red sea shell earrings.  it all came together in a pretty special and fantastic way.

church was good.  talks were good, sunday school on the beatitudes was good, young women's was good.  the girls seemed more themselves and rachel was back and so was olivia.  i missed those two.  after church was a linger longer potluck.  we've been having them since the summer, but i haven't ever gone.  but today before sunday school sister newman and sister rama encouraged me to come even though i didn't make any food.  they said they made enough.  i like the ramas.  i usually sit somewhere near them when i go to sunday school (and that's when i'm not naughtily doing my lesson during that hour)  the ramas are finish but know swedish.  and brother rama sometimes get's confused by some to be dad aka doug clarke sr.  anyways when i walked in and joined them on the back row, brother rama greeted me in swedish and then said, in swedish "my brother died yesterday".  i was not expecting that.  his brother was only 66 and lived in sweden they don't know how he died, which is what brother rama was mostly saying.  he seemed a little in shock.  he said they weren't close since he joined the church.  sad.

anyways i went to the potluck but i didn't want to sit at a table all alone or join some other family so i wandered out the door and found anabella, who i used to visit teach, in the lobby so i sat and talked with her and leilani was there too and later tracy joined us.  single ladies.  we had some good talks.  then we had choir after that because--brother gurney.  this year there is no stake cantata and i'm bummed about that.  and i won't be in our ward for our christmas program--christmas day.  so that's also a bummer.  but we might do some numbers in december, so that will be good.

after church i caught up on my book of mormon--many mosaiah chapters which were so good.  then i dozed a little with this furry purring lump on my chest.

i love this pic.  i love archie's yawn and once again the golden hour was visiting my home and do you think that chair can hold anything more?

 this one makes me laugh too.  archie cleaning his unmentionables and izzy sitting with a dime on a ham.

 had some freshy fresh as an evening snack.

i call these next two pics "through a glass darkly"  "for now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now i know in part; but then shall i know even as also i am known"--1corinthians 13:12