Anna - East Coast anticipation

Off to the East for the Thanksgiving Week.  And once again Anna is going to join us for the trip. 

Saint Paul - Margie and Joe celebrate their birthdays

Oops - Joe had to celebrate with the family.  It happens to all of us but Joe wasn't in the mood to celebrate with anyone.  Margie, always ready for a celebration and she recognized another year in great form.
We could have had the St Paul Vulcans, celebrating across the hall, make it a much bigger event but then Mac had already made a trip to be sick in the toilet so we didn't want to risk further casualties
Birthdays recognized.  Family all made it.  I got in on the action as well.  What more can you ask....

Saint Paul - Winter...it had to arrive

We have been living on the edge all month.  It was in the 60s F almost everyday this week - almost 70F.  We all knew but just didn't thing about when it came it would hit hard.  And by Saturday morning we had lots of wet, heavy snow everywhere.  It looks like we make get a meltdown but winter has arrived as it always does.

Saint Paul - the Halloween Queen getting ready for the big night

Saint Paul - Halloween 2010

Millie never should have invited me to come over for Halloween all those years ago.  I keep coming back and I bring others with me. 
Petar's first USA Halloween.  DQ always had stories to tell.  We had good numbers - over 140 came to the door.  Mary wandered in late with Hungarian to share and Evan learned the secret to the Rubik's cube.  And Millie pondered the value in engaging in some "military style" winter fitness class. 
A perfect evening!

A Senteo flashback...a wild and wonderful team meeting in Egypt

Saint Paul - the rain finally arrives

After 28 days of sun and no moisture, they threatened a rainy weekend and it did arrive...but not until a 3 of us got in a ride on Saturday morning.
The rain and wind have cleared most of what was left of leaves on the trees - but there are a few spots here and there that still provide a bit of a fall show.  
And it sounds like we will get our first bit of below normal weather later this week.  

Saint Paul - another above normal October weekend...so got in another ride

The weather continues to cooperate. 
Not only warmer than normal but after flood inducing storms in September we have seen no rain and now are in the midst of the driest month in history.
It started a bit cool on Saturday...Carly was claiming the temperature was at her age when she arrived - no doubt her car temp gauge was cooperating to get her out for a ride......a few others have seemed to already gone in to hibernation for the biking season.  
We even had a new spot to stop along the route - great treats and coffee!

Saint Paul - DQ turns 21.

Danny Qu turned 21 on 10.10.10.  Must be something special or at least lucky about that.
We ended a great October weekend by bringing together the Mac guys and the available nieces and nephews.
Petar and I gave our first attempt at a Serbian dessert.  We finished it off but we need to do practice another time or two to get it right.  I think we lost something in the translation from Serbian to English and converting from metric - but we still finished it all off!
And how often do you get sung the Happy Birthday Song in multiple languages all at the same time!

Saint Paul - Celebrating the new kitchen, upcoming retirements and life

We have moved on from "shut up Lorne" to "shut up Dennis". And the NoDak and Cannuck continued your "border battles". So it was a great night to once again break in the new Klauda kitchen and engage in lively debate and many many laughs.