An Early End to No-Shave November

As is customary for gentlemen in the month of November, I participate in "No-Shave November." When December comes, there is usually the much anticipated* unveiling of the Post-No-Shave-November Facial Art.

This year, Thanksgiving and our wedding anniversary fell on the same day, and a few days prior to the glorious coincidence of these two ever-important jamborees, my wife lamented to me that I always have a beard in our anniversary pictures. Not one to quickly break tradition, I nevertheless saw this as an opportunity to bless my wife. So, I decided to do something uncharacteristic and bring an early end to "No-Shave November," so as to bless my wife.

Instead of a beard in this year's anniversary pictures, I will be sporting a look I have christened "The 4-Point Buck" - a mustache the descends on either side to downward-facing forked prongs of glorious facial hair, creating a strong resemblance to the rack of a 4-point buck.

I'm not sure this is what Stacy had in mind when she requested "no beard this year," but I guess we could quibble over the semantics all day...  Ah, the things I do out of love.

(* Stacy waits eagerly to see what sort of artistic rendition I will come up with. I think it is probably her favorite surprise of the year.)