A Taste of Life

Lots of family time this week…a kiddie Halloween parade in downtown Oak Park, following a firetruck into the heart of one of the merchant districts…Sunday School…then loads of cooking…cheese blintzes with strawberry raspberry preserves, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins, Halloween sugar cookies, Cajun seasoned pumpkin seeds from our Jack-O-Lanterns. (This is the first year the kids could design their own faces.)…Southern fried chicken and rice…star gazing after dark.

We finally found the eye piece so we can separate out clumps of stars into dazzling constellations. The light pollution doesn’t allow for much of a look, but it’s still pretty dark to the west.

Tonight a domestic break…grilled roasted pepper, cheese panini and (thanks to Costco) crab and corn chowder. A new House on the tube.