New Baby

We visited Sam at Bradley for Parents Weekend, and forgot the camera! But, while there, we took Sam out to eat for lunch and dinner Saturday, and brunch on Sunday.

And Saturday afternoon we took part in a silent auction to benefit St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, and we scored a DY jersey for Sam, and a nice portable gas grill for me.

Lori actually got the grill by sneaking her arm around a couple of people at the last minute and putting in a bid $1 over theirs.

Here's a picture of the new grill in action.

Halloween

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A couple of weeks before Halloween, we went into the city to see a production featuring my friend and colleague, Keith Green. It was a fun play about a group of psychic mediums/scholars, written and produced by the troupe and put on in a theater space above a mechanic shop on the NW side. That's Keith in character. Before the show, we stopped in at an Irish pub nearby for fish and chips--that's our waitress, but I can't remember her name. Let's call her Connie--there's lot's of Connies in Chicago.

A couple of weeks later we saw Richard III at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier--a good, but not great, production. Second only to Macbeth in the number of murders in a Shakespeare play. No pictures of this--sorry.

Finally, you see my Halloween night get-up, spider puppets on each hand--to hand out candy. We spooked a few young-uns with the outfit and with XM Radio's sound effects channel and our black cat!

On the Road Again

Heading home on Tuesday, we caught the noon ferry, then rain into overcast skis and some rain in the northern LP.

We stopped at our favorite restaurant in Lake City for a late lunch, then got back into Chicago around 7:30.

Fall on the Island, Part 5

Our last day before heading back to Chicago.

We had tea, Lori went for a run, took some pictures, and we did a few more small chores like moving wood around, closing windows, etc.