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Hazel doesn't
understand the point of this game. She does not care about
learning computer programming. (10/18/20)
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Mythical creatures
vs. robots. (10/18/20)
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Robots vs. mythical
creatures. (10/18/20)
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Perfect cherry pie,
enough for us and delivering to friends. (10/18/20)
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Taking a break from
school work to play fetch with Fred and George. Sometimes, Lee
even lets the dogs actually do the fetching! (10/19/20)
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Practicing lines for
Annie Jr.
(10/21/20)
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Watching Halloween
movies and stealing my Squirrel Girl doll. (10/22/20)
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The Haunted Hay Ride
at Dorris Ranch. (10/22/20)
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We saw skeletal
dancers, fire juggling, live music, a puppet show, and a lot of
decorations like this graveyard. (10/22/20)
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A long awaited
outing to ride their bike. (10/24/20)
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Decorating a fluffy
dog with fancy ribbon clips. (10/24/20)
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The pure joy and
frenzy of being seven. (10/25/20)
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Admiring the fall
foliage on a clear autumn day. (10/25/20)
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The world may be in
chaos, but some things stay the same. (10/25/20)
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Having selected
their "torture tools," the children commence torturing the pumpkins
into their fated forms. (10/25/20)
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While most of us
were carving pumpkins, someone carved the wrong kind of orange
fruit! (10/25/20)
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Lee makes a plan for
their jack-o-lantern. (10/25/20)
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Lane's plan looks
ambitiously delicate... but they decided to risk it. (10/25/20)
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Lee needed a little
help getting started and cleaning the insides, but they carved the face
entirely on their own. (10/25/20)
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Lane carefully
follows their plan, except for making the ghost a little
sturdier. (10/25/20)
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Cute ghost and
crooked smile. (10/25/20)
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Making spooky
decorations. (10/27/20)
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Halloween paper
chains and some disturbingly dark cardboard headstones. (10/27/20)
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Lee had waited weeks
for us to go on a walk where they'd have a chance to take a picture of
their monkey climbing this "beanstalk." (10/29/20)
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If the dogs worked
together, they could pull Lee right over. But they don't know
that. (10/30/20)
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Time to put on our
Halloween masks! We made a brief foray into downtown, protected
by our masks, but the pandemic meant it was very exciting.
(10/31/20)
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Trick-or-tree!
(10/31/20)
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We invented our own
ritual -- for each tree the kids knocked on, they were presented with a
small piece of candy. Either an M&M, peanut M&M,
mini-marshmallow, gummy bear, or the rare gummy shark. (10/31/20)
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Knock on fake trees,
get fake candy. (10/31/20)
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The kids kept
knocking on all the fake trees anyway. Lee shared their candy
with Sonic. (10/31/20)
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Time to go home for
-- you guessed it! -- more activities where the kids get candy.
(10/31/20)
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Two-tailed fox and
butterfly-giraffe. (10/31/20)
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Since you can't go
trick-or-treating for real in a pandemic... (10/31/20)
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The kids went back
and forth between our house and Grand Janet's. (10/31/20)
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The adults behind
the doors kept changing costumes. This witch threatened children
who took too many pieces of candy with a curse recited in rhyme; the
fairy king was more generous. (10/31/20)
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Grand Janet's house
has both a front and back door, so the kids trick-or-treated at
both. (10/31/20)
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The adults came up
with some pretty clever costumes on the spot, including "Guy Who Forgot
It's Halloween and Only Has Apples to Give." (10/31/20)
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A velociraptor
insists they each only take one candy, speaking only in
screeches. The door was also answered by a blue hand puppet at
one point. (10/31/20)
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Eventually, the
night wrapped up when their dad ran out of new costumes.
(10/31/20)
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