Play That Funky Music!

Reid, AKA 'The Master', as his drumming teacher, Larry calls him, had his drum recital today and totally slayed it! I had no idea that our shy child had such a gift for showmanship and rising to the occasion. He was really dialed in and the whole audience was very impressed with the performance, especially considering he was the youngest participant. I tried to embed the video, but it wouldn't up load into Blogger, so I've uploaded it into Youtube, and I'll post the link as soon as they finish processing it.

As mom mentioned, Friday was a little crazy as we oncee again saw a big plume of smoke coming over the ridge above Sanitas Valley and got the word that there was another wildfire burning- this time in the mouth of the canyon very close to town. The dry, windy conditions we've had this fall don't bode well for the rest of the winter. We went to the park in the afternoon to catch some photos of the smoke and sunset.
We're having a little 'quiet time' as we prepare for the candy gluttony and ensuing mayhem that will be coming later. Reid is going in Kate's Camplbell's soup can costume from a couple years ago when I was Andy Warhol, Boden has decided to be a witch, and Alden was going to be a butterfly, but changed her mind at the last minute and decided to go with the bee costume. I'm thinking she should have just gone as Muhammad Ali and covered both.

Happy Halloween!