We have some sad news. Mrs. G’s daughter informed us that Johnny and his new girlfriend (yes he recently acquired a little chicken girlfriend) are no longer with us at 423 smith. When asked what happened, Mrs. G’s daughter informed me that “they went to the big frying pan in the sky.” Johnny, we will miss you and your afternoon cock-a-doodle-do-ing. You may have been an ex-con rooster, but you were our ex-con rooster. Poor fella, you will be missed.

Before the month of october gets away from us – here is a quick CALL FOR ENTRIES for our (OrangeYouGlad’s) ultimate collection of paper plate masks. We are hoping that some of you clever folks will download our template, draw up a good mask and send it in so we can share them all online. This will be especially useful to people who don’t plan ahead for halloween.

Yay it’s finally cold out. Time to break out the soup recipes. Thanks to LJ for finding the recipe for the best soup of all time – curried pear and butternut squash soup.

Today Kat and Brixton came in to help us with some illustrations for a packaging project. Awh!

more photos here

Nice site of color palettes with hex codes. Vote on your favs.
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Ok, so this is slightly old news – but we thought we should update you on the growing cast of characters at 423 smith. Recently our landlady Mrs. G brought home a rooster – a rooster named Johnny. We managed to capture our first encounter with Johnny on video.

He has since escaped many a times (we think he is looking for female companionship). A few weeks ago, on one of the hotest days of the summer, the local po-po came by to take johnny to the pokey for public drunkeness and I think even flashing. It took over 12 police officers to subdue him. And he spent the afternoon cooling off downtown. Mrs. G eventually paid his bail and he was back at his post announcing the time of day at 20 minute intervals that evening.

Always best to start off a blog by linking to another blog. Right? Wrong? Well whatever the case may be – we love getting a bit of love from our neighbors.