1. Our auto/home insurance bill came today and I didn't procrastinate. I immediately wrote the check and headed uptown and mailed the payment.
I hadn't been to Beach Bum Bakery for a while and had a warm visit today. I especially enjoyed listening to Rebecca tell me about the dog her family adopted and their affection for him.
I bought two superb items, a mini loaf of sourdough rye bread and a ginger molasses cookie. I love rye bread and this loaf is chewy, packed with rye and sourdough flavor, and perfect to eat spread with butter or to make an open face ham and cheese sandwich.
2. It's never a certainty what kind of trick or treater turnout we'll have here on Little Cameron. I was ready if we had around sixty costumed ghouls show up, but the actual number of children who came by fell far short of what I was ready for.
I'll confess -- maybe I do this every year at Halloween -- that the Halloween spirit just doesn't slay me year after year. So, I couldn't say when the last time I went to a Halloween party was nor do I know the last time I put on a mask or a costume.
It's kind of odd, really.
When I was in plays and did other stage work in Eugene years ago, I loved dressing up as whatever character I played and losing myself in trying to inhabit that character's speech, mannerisms, and place in the story.
But that enjoyment has never carried over to Halloween.
Go figure.
That said, it's fun and a pleasure to have kids, no matter how young or old, show up on the porch and present themselves as characters, animals, creatures, or whatever they might be.
So, I was a little disappointed that so few trick or treaters came by.
I think I understand why and I hope the children had fun doing the other things available to them as alternatives to going door to door.
I simply would have enjoyed more youngsters coming here.
3. Saturday, November 1st, is Adrienne's birthday. I'm very happy that Debbie's cousin, Sally, is treating Adrienne to a performance of the play Art at the Music Box theater. Debbie and Misty will be going to the Guthrie to see Wicked. Before they attend these matinees, the four of them will lunch together in Manhattan and Sally and Misty will meet for the first time.
It's all wondrous to me.
The last ten days have been a time of family togetherness for members of Debbie's immediate and extended family in ways we could have never imagined just two years ago -- all spurred by Misty suddenly and miraculously coming into our lives.
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