Rumors of my demise / Halloween splendor

I'm back -- It's been three weeks but no towels have yet been thrown in; I just need to stop setting the bar so high that nothing seems worth writing about. Of course, it's a sickly, cyclical thing: as the hiatus grows, so does the feeling that the "comeback post" has to be something really worthwhile... Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not sure how others break the cycle; but I suppose one way is to write about something really inane. So:

Here are our 3 Amigos attired for our church's Harvest Festival last weekend. Suvia pulled off another great pair of homemade costumes this year: Dylan as Junior Asparagus and Diesel as Bob the Tomato. She even dyed Dylan's sweatpants green for the occasion. They came out rather pale so we discussed redoing them but agreed it ain't much of a living. To our surprise and delight, Dylan's costume won first prize at the end of the evening: he proudly carried home his trophy, a Spirograph set (remember those?). As for Timo: at the last minute we rustled up a hand-me-down costume many sizes too big, so he was a ... Shar-Pei tree frog. He earned numerous "awwwwww"s as he wandered around, babbling inquiringly.