This past Saturday and Sunday were a flurry of activity indeed: Besides taking photos in the early afternoon on Saturday, the whole lot of us (Bob, Jill, Raegan, and I) went over to Steve’s for a Halloween party that had an amazing turnout and, despite having to leave early, was a whole lot of fun. Sunday found us enjoying the extra hour of sleep with relatively little pain felt from the activities of the night before. After that, Raegan and I trekked out to REI to pick up that pack I’ve been eying up for the past several months; I also wound up purchasing my own membership. We showed up a little early, so I gave Raegan a quick tour of my old campus to kill some time before the store opened; it’s amazing how much that place has changed since I’ve graduated and moved on in life.

After my shopping spree, I came home and raked up all of the leaves, that are now waiting their final fate of incineration in the burn barrel. While I was doing that, Bob took his hatchet and went to town on the tall bamboo-like weeds that surrounded the shed; the yard looks totally different now without them being there. We’re planning on growing hops in that area in the spring to hide the nastiness of my neighbor’s collection of junk.