Maybe things are finally looking up for 2020. At least we seem on track to end it on a high note, with the idiot in chief being thrown out on his big orange @$$. But enough about that.....Halloween lasted a little longer than usual this year: our church had a trunk-or-treat last Wednesday as the kids' event for the month. People were invited to come in costume, set up in the parking lot at church, decorate their trunks (or, their whole car), and pass out candy. We probably had 20+ cars set up. We made up the back of the van like it was a cave, with spider webs and stalactites and bats (made of socks and construction paper). Missy was sort of a shadow, she dressed all in black but carried around her dragon puppet. The dragon was guarding the hoard of candy in the van-cave. I put on Alex's old crusader knight costume from when he was in 3rd grade and went around saying "ni" to people. Beth and Nat wore cat ears and had catty makeup on. There were also 2 food trucks there, one taco truck and one Cuban food truck from which we got the best Cuban sandwiches we've had since we lived in Orlando 25 years ago. Overall, huge success, and a lot of fun for everyone.....Alex has been working in earnest lately. He brings out pallets of stuff and puts the stuff on the shelves, then does it again. Hard work, and he's been scheduled for quite a few more hours than we had planned, but he likes the job at Walmart a ton better than he liked Culver's......We all found that the diner downtown, formerly B-Mac's on Buffalo, formerly Dig's Diner, is now Buzz on Buffalo. Friday we were going downtown to Mad Anthony's, but the diner was open, which is unusual for that time, so we stopped in and it turned out they were having a fish fry dinner since it was First Friday (even though FF had been cancelled). The fish was really good. We'll have to keep that place in mind..... I've started painting the living room, finally. Beth and I finally agreed on the colors for the room. We're doing a light gray with just a bit of blue as the main color, and a teal as a secondary color on the L-shaped wall and the dining room back wall. So far, I haven't got much on the wall, because I'm also getting the trim on the front door repainted and I'm painting the trim around the pantry white.....Voting in the time of coronavirus was pretty easy this past week; after all the fuss about it I walked in, voted, and walked out, maybe 10 minutes in total. More and more kids are testing positive or being contact traced at the school, things really seem to be building back up again like in the spring only this time nothing is closing.....