Here at Michael Delving, we have been enjoying Fall and we celebrate with an October blog post.
The last of the fall crop of raspberries.
The Hobbit Wife's indoor succulent menangerie.
The Mayor is back to cooking up batches of deliciousness and relishes storing vats of food out-of-doors to cool overnight (only when the temperatures drop lower than the refrigerator, of course).
After school got started, we got caught up on appointments. Here is Seimi in the dentist chair.
Ela has become something of a blanket fort master. This stupendous creation was erected in less than an hour.
We started back at the gym (Boookie is now working out with the teens class).
Boookie has only the tiniest bit to grow before he becomes the tallest hobbit at Michael Delving! We suspect he has been sneaking sips of Ent draught.
Ela and Boookie have been enjoying participating in youth group events at church, including a very muddy trip to a local corn maze.
There has been much making of creations around Michael Delving, including WW2 LEGO planes.
The Mayor spent some time and put in a new floor in the Bunker and the family room downstairs.
Near-daily LEGO ship battles now occur on the new floor.
From time to time, we'll break out the Play-Do. Here is Seimi with his army of green dough.
Here is Eejee enjoying hacking away with a knife.
The Battle of Harfleur (from Henry V), a few days after the Hobbit Wife and the hobbitlings celebrated St. Crispian's Day by watching excerpts from Henry V.
Eejee enjoying a flop day inside, watching cartoons.
Eejee and the Mayor out grabbing lunch together.
Eejee giving his Halloween costume a test run.
Hobbitlings prepping their stomachs with the traditional nourishing meal of ragu on Halloween evening, prior to going out to get candy.
Preparing glow sticks for Halloween costumes.
Boookie's costume was "Formal Apology." He got so many belly laughs while out trick-or-treating.
Ela went as Luna Lovegood, complete with radish earrings, Spectrascope glasses, a butter beer necklace, and her own copy of the Quibbler.
Seimi went as Newt Scamander. Note the Hufflepuff scarf knit for him by the Hobbit Wife and his bowtruckle "Pickett."
Eejee in his Armed Otter costume.
The Sons of Thunder were the first to be all ready to go.
Everyone is geared up and ready to go out!
First stop was at Grammy's house.
Grammy had a wonderful assortment of custom-made presents.
The older three out trick-or-treating. The Mayor is digging his new iPhone 11 - the camera capabilities are really fun.
Eejee came down with something and after the first two stops, had to call it a night, but he still didn't want to take off his otter costume. He's pictured here next to Otter, Otter B, and he wanted to be called Otter 3.
Without making any special effort, we ended up with 16.8 pounds of candy, good for second-place in our historical records.
The Mayor submitted the creation below for his office pumpkin-decorating contest.
Update: The Mayor's pumpkin WON said contest!
