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Non-Perfect Health Food of the Day

Pumpple Cake: A pumpkin pie within chocolate cake, an apple pie within vanilla cake, all surrounded by sugary icing.

We’ve said that any recipe can be repaired by substituting healthy ingredients. This concoction, from the Flying Monkey Bakery in Philadelphia, could be the exception!

What We’ve Been Up To

The in-laws are now “in-laws once removed,” and life is back to normal.

Our guests like nature as much as we do, so we spent most of the last 5 days outdoors. Since I haven’t had time to do a real post, I thought I’d share a few photos (click to enlarge).

This is a New Hampshire landmark, the Indian Head:

A leading New Hampshire tourist attraction, the Basin:

A light snow fell as we hiked.

The trail crosses the stream here, and we decided to end the hike rather than try to step across these rocks:

I’ve been wearing Vibram Fivefingers for the last two years and a new model, the Bikila, is much better for winter hiking. No frostbite in these:

Our guests thought the fungi on these trees were the ingredient for Chinese Lingzhi herbal tea, but I have my doubts:

We gathered one for scientific examination:

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have much to be thankful for this year, not least the many Internet friends we’ve made through this blog. We wish you and yours have a joyful and gracious holiday!

The blog is going to take a break, since we have relatives from Asia visiting through next Tuesday.

And now … Pass the turkey please!

How to Relieve Stress

Find someone to cuddle: