If Blood And Love Taste So Sweet

Our house, in the middle of the street, accented by autumn.


Olin and Sam using trainer chopsticks.


Caleb the lefty.


Trick or Treating on the East Side, with our neighbor Cynthia. Cynthia and Brian live just down the street from Cousin Aidan, and every year they give out both candy and comic books. Sam picked up Batman Beyond #17.


This years' most coveted treasure: Tootsie Pops. Particularly the red ones.


Trick or Treating, round two, with Olin in Bay View. Olin is dressed as Rocket, whom you will remember from your viewings of Little Einsteins.


The whole gang -- Kiva, Ruby, Sam, Caleb, and Olin. Kiva is dressed as the H1Ni virus.


Sam covets the loot.You're just too good to be true / Can't take my eyes off you
You'd be like Heaven to touch / I want to hold you so much

Caleb's haul, and his road-rash'd philtrum from a tricycle accident early in the day.


They probably wouldn't be looking so cocky if they knew how much of that candy was going to end up in their father's tummy.
Best bits of loot: Beanie Babies, balloons, glow-stick bracelets, a Batman Beyond comic book, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Worst bits: the out-of-the-box fruit roll-up (for cheapness), pencils (for the outmoded technology), Candy Corn-flavored Dots (for waxy candy chemically reconstituted to taste like a different kind of waxy candy).