Spooky Little Swine

Looking at the national weather map, I notice it's still in the 70's around much of the nation. But we've got 20's at night and 30's, maybe 40 degrees during the day.

It's also pretty dark much of the day. We're getting 9 hours of daylight each day at this point. The sun comes up just after 9am and sets just after 6pm. We lose another hour every 10 days. Our low number of daylight hours will be 5 hours around Christmas (and the winter solstice).

In more celebratory news... Tess and I helped out at Alicia's daycare Fall Carnival yesterday. All the kids dressed up in costumes. Alicia is dressing up as Piglet this year.

They had a costume parade, played games, ate yummy cupcakes and got their faces painted. It was a fun afternoon.


Today, Tess is volunteering at the "Trick or Treat Town" event in Anchorage which is a fundraiser for the children's museum called the Imaginarium. She's joined the Key Club at school this year, and this is one of their community service activities.

Alicia and I will be going to the event as participants. We're not sure exactly what it is, but we bought tickets for $6 each. So we'll see. I imagine there'll be candy involved... so Alicia will be pleased about that!