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Hobbes oversees Lane's college homework. (10/1/25)
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Time for light saber battles. (10/3/25)
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Looking like a sith. (10/3/25)
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This time, we tried having our battle before it was dark. (10/4/25)
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Three way battle. (10/4/25)
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Sneak attack! (10/4/25)
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Endless energy for these battles. (10/4/25)
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Kicking tennis balls for Avery to chase, bark at, and not catch. (10/5/25)
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Celebrating the start of the school year with ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery. (10/5/25)
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It's good to get outside with the dogs. (10/13/25)
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Julian makes such a lovely and confused scarf. (10/13/25)
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Piper pillow. (10/15/25)
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Piper isn't sure she wants to be a pillow... (10/15/25)
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Convincing
Lee to go to bed by singing "Pumpkin Patch" to the tune of "Baby
Shark," eventually evolving into "Pumpkin Shark" and all sorts of other
things that made even less sense. (10/21/25)
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Picking out pumpkin ammunition. If you choose smaller ones, you can fit more in the bucket. (10/22/25)
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Bruce the cow and his goat friend won't bring us down. (10/22/25)
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Getting ready to fire. (10/22/25)
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Putting his entire weight into pulling back the pumpkin slingshot. (10/22/25)
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Lee charges straight into the corn maze, first this way, and then that way! (10/22/25)
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The maze was small and easy to beat... (10/22/25)
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So we charged around randomly at full speed through it over again... (10/22/25)
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...doing our best to get lost. (10/22/25)
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Lee picked a ghost pumpkin, and we got to pick out pumpkins too. (10/22/25)
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Chasing a chicken and playing corn-hole. (10/22/25)
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Calvin and Hobbes are ready for the trick-or-treating season to kick off. (10/24/25)
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Calvin, Hobbes, doot doo do do doo... MAHNA MAHNA. (10/25/25)
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Given a choice between the eyeball game and the spider game, Lee chose the harder one and still won. (10/25/25)
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Even choosing the easier option, the Mahna Mahna puppets made this game very challenging. (10/25/25)
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Mad science. (10/25/25)
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We were mostly lucky with the weather, even though it had been pouring all morning.. (10/25/25)
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...but the rain started back up as we were winding down. (10/25/25)
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The pumpkin carving begins... (10/27/25)
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There is much pondering of the pumpkins. (10/27/25)
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Lee realized that he should be more Calvin for this activity. (10/27/25)
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Progress is mixed with silliness. (10/27/25)
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Lee really wanted his pumpkin to be clever -- the kind of pumpkin Calvin would carve. (10/27/25)
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So, he carved a vampire pumpkin! (10/27/25)
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A good looking group of pumpkins. (10/27/25)
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Mahna Mahna on campus. (10/31/25)
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Ready for the real deal. (10/31/25)
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Lee was out of it all day, but rallied for the trick-or-treating. (10/31/25)
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