November is here, the leaves are off the trees and the weather is getting cold.  The worst part, I think, is that it's dark so early and 5pm feels like 9pm.  Something in my primal DNA makes me want to build a pillow cacoon and sleep until spring. 

Jared and Ruth have both finished their first quarters at school. Both are doing well. Jared started driver's ed and finished his first range.  He is not super excited to drive but will drive if we ask him. Ruth went on a corporate tour she was excited about. It's fun to see her channel her passions into new things.

I've done two charity events with HEROIC, at one we were specifically asked to be Harry Potter characters,  the other was a Toys-for-Tots drive.  I've also finished most of my adjustments to Hypollita and Chuck put together some new shelves for my workshop.  Things are cleaned out there and ready for the next big project.

Riding the Hogwarts Express

It was raining and like 40 degrees so Hawkgirl's wings stayed in the car for our Toys-for-Tots drive.

New Shelves.  Always struggling to find enough room.

We had a pretty quiet Halloween.  A few days before, Chuck and I went to a trunk-or-treat & chili dinner.  We dressed like swashbucklers and while our car wasn't very decorated it did play "Yo Ho, a Pirate's Life for Me," which people liked.

On actual Halloween, we didn't do much.  Chuck dressed as a pirate at work and Ruth had to work too.  I've been rushing for the last month to get my latest cosplay project finished by Halloween and I was able to finish by about 4pm Halloween day, but was so tired of looking at it by that point that I opted not to dress up at all.  Jared did homework and Chuck and I handed out candy and it was all good and fine.

A few days later I did put all of Hippotyla on, Wonder Woman's mother from the movie, and took some pictures.  There were some problems, as there always is with a first wearing, so I'll have a few more days of work on it.   But here are some preliminary photos:

Because Ruth's boyfriend has been pretty successful in his work for a political organization, Ruth has had the opportunity to attend several fancy functions, hobnobbing with various political and rich people.  This weekend she got to attend the Equality Utah Dinner, which was quite a fancy affair. She says she'll be glad next week when the election is over so she can get "her boyfriend back," as he has been working extra long hours.

Speaking of the election, we sat down and had an election night where we looked up info on all the candidates and filled out our ballots together.  Then we drove to drop off our ballots and play some Pokemon Go!