Sunday, October 25, 2009

Halloween looms large

Halloween falls this year on Saturday. This was the last weekend to prepare and it looked to me as though most of Honolulu were out shopping for costumes and decorations. Today also happens to be my younger son's birthday, which netted him a fresh new suite of Adobe software and a box of finger cookies that look like fingers, and for me a terrific home-cooked dinner. By next weekend he will have the house festooned with skeletons and intricately carved jack-o'-lanterns.

Based on today's weather you would never know it was fall, but yesterday gave a clue. Our usual Saturday morning bike ride was shortened to about six miles by incessant rain. Even then it was warm, too warm for anything more than a basic cycling jersey. It won't get cool enough for a jacket until December. Life in the tropics, where the weather does not threaten to kill you.

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