This morning started off far too early for a weekend morning, but that is because it was time for round two of the Good Day Sacramento reporting on that wacky Nanowrimo thing. So we got up and ate the last of the bagels in the fridge for breakfast and then we packed up our laptops and headed off to the designated meeting spot, and it wasn’t too long before everyone else, including the reporter and the camera man, arrived.

Because I know you are all dying to see it, here is the clip from this morning’s show (they got this one up a lot quicker than they did the time before). Hey this time, I think I actually show up in the background (when she’s talking to Richard).

After the Good Day Sacramento spot, we came back home and spent an hour or so giving the house a badly needed cleaning. We met my parents for lunch and they came back to the house to check in on the kittens (who have probably doubled in size since they last saw them, which isn’t as alarming as it sounds because kittens are prone to do that at this age).

And speaking of the kittens, yesterday, along with cooking up the turkey and all that that entailed, we also dragged down all the boxes of holiday decorations from the attic, including the tree. We put the tree together and plugged it in and then stood back to see what the kittens would do, fully expecting that one or both of them would immediately try to scale it, because that is exactly the sort of thing they (well, at least Rupert) would do. Except that we forgot that one of the most predictable things about cats is that they are always unpredictable, and the kittens were more interested in trying to gnaw on the branches than climbing them. So this afternoon we decided to tempt fate a little further and we went through our box of ornaments and picked out all the ones that are unbreakable, and put them on the tree. The kittens definitely thought those were interesting (although it is still a tough choice for Ingrid, between chewing on the tree or batting at the ornaments).

I made an apple butter pie, because we have a lot of apple butter and I had an extra pie crust in the freezer that needed using up, so we ate leftover turkey and trimming for dinner, and had apple butter pie for dessert. Basically the idea is that you follow the pumpkin pie recipe exactly, except in place of pumpkin, you use apple butter, and you then adjust the sugar and spices accordingly. It used up two full jars of apple butter, which is a good thing because there were two in the fridge (that hadn’t sealed from the last batch I made) so it was nice to clear those out of the way. It has a similar look and texture as pumpkin pie, but there is an apple pie tone to it instead. Richard and I have decided that this recipe is definitely a keeper. Delicious!