Mysterious…just photos, no explanations. Unless you ask for one.
Fall, birthday parties, pumpkin patches, weird costumes and jack-o-lanterns, my visit to LA, Halloween, etc..
Sans verbiage…a bunch of photos. Ask if you want an explanation!
In 2024, we took a family trip to a bunch of places in Poland. We took KrisDi’s parents along and went back to the farm her father was born on. We took a lot of photos. In the interest of actually getting something posted, I’m not narrating, except for a couple comments on photos I don’t remember writing, probably over a year ago.
If you want an explanation of something, leave a comment (and a link to the photo page if it’s specific to a photo).
Apparently I started preparing photos for a post about August of 2024, but never completed it? Anyway, pursuant to my previous post, here are some photos unattached to any narrative.
A couple more birthday parties for Chilkoot. One for mostly theater friends at Sky Zone (trampolines and other jumpy stuff). Sometimes the two kids had fun together, sometimes Chilkat felt the need to isolate herself. We also had a family birthday party, with Chilkoot’s favorite Polish pastry and pizza and cake. Chilkoot got a fancy controller for the Wii.
KrisDi got a crack in her windshield, which sparked an interesting thing with Subaru being sued because of faulty glass used in her year of Ascent. We ended up paying some out of pocket, but with fancy optical safety equipment things like this are expensive as fuck now.
Kids had a one-week-summer-camp Kettleworks thing with the Emperor’s New Clothes. Chilkoot was the emperor, Chilkat was Lady Voluble.
We went camping at Colonial Creek, which is something of an offshoot from Lake Diablo. Lots of photos, but not much specific to say. Beautiful site. Chilkat got to own a boat for a while (someone abandoned it with a note, so I let her claim it, captain it momentarily, and then re-abandon it), we explored a wrecked boathouse, I taught Chilkoot to make mud butter, I let the kids climb under a bridge (inspiring a fantastic new comparison: “Mom’s the parent that won’t let us do anything unsafe, but will pay for anything we want; Dad’s the parent who won’t pay for anything but will let us do anything fun no matter how dangerous” — this isn’t actually what was said, but kind of the gist of the quote). We stopped at a scenic overlook for beautiful views of Lake Diablo before we left.
We had a trucknic shortly after that trip — KrisDi had a work trip to Utah.