Taking pictures of pretty trees, mostly

 A brief update on a week that was supposed to be rainy but ended up not being at all as rainy after all. With some luck, tomorrow's halloween shenanigans will be only dark and foggy (which will be fine).

But there has been some nice weather and we've made it out to see trees and such as a family and once also just a parents getaway while kids were in school. 




Finnish forest campers: this was a very successful grilling snack. As were Kai's favorite grilling sausages: Wigren Herkkunakki. 



For Halloween we are hosting some trick or treating. Because of daylight savings, it is getting dark by 5 pm and completely dark by 6, so we could have started earlier. Trying to keep decorations and the total halloween budget modest, but still fun. I guess we will soon see if we have a dozen kids come by, or several dozen! 

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