Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! Ack and Anne went trick-or-treating with Bob, Christy and 1-year old Katrina in their Tenny Park neighborhood. It was a very neighborly activity - there were lots of families with kids walking their neighbor and lots of folks knew each other. And households get into the holloween spirit - lots of decorated pumpkins and ghosts in windows. One house even ran a little skit on their porch; trick-or-treaters needed to participate in the skit in some small way to recieve their treat (which was chocolate). We live in a friendly neighborhood, but very few kids (maybe 1) which makes it have a different feel than Bob and Christy's neighborhood. Here, dogs take on the role of neighborhood children. To keep up with what is going on, it helps to have a dog to walk in the morning so you can meet folks and chat.

October Gardening...

Anne and Ack worked on Anne's community garden at Troy. We thought Alana might enjoy this picture of a well tilled field.

New Game

We spent this cold, first snow of the season cleaning the garage (mostly). We also have discovered Banana Scrabble. The evening we will visit Cindy and see how her house painting came out.

Sailing the Chesapeake

After getting back from England, Ack and Anne went sailing on the Chesapeake with some of her folklorist friends: Amy, Guha and Lisa. This photo is Anne sailing wing-on-wing. We sailed the upper Chesapeake for 2 1/2 days in a 33 foot sail boat. We experienced strong winds, calm winds and a bit of rain at night. More photos are at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/pryor.anne/OnTheUpperChesapeake?feat=content_notification#

Bath at Night

Here is the Roman Bath at night. It is usually closed at night, but we had a reception there. The buildings in Bath are of course old, but they are also very similar in color to the brick of the 'cream city'.

Bath

An afternoon trip to Stonghenge with Tom and Betty. It is amazing what people have been able to construct. The evening was a reception at the Bath Museum of Fashion. Interesting fashions, it is easy to tell the decade for which the "Dress of the Year" was crowned. To me, the best fashion is Anne in worn out blue jeans and a red sweat shirt.

Bath

Ack is in Bath England. Here's a photo of the Roman Baths, with the Bath Abbey in the background.