This year we celebrate Thanksgiving at our new house with a full house. Grandma and Grandpa Keener, Aunt Michelle and Jacob, Grandma and Grandpa Knock, and Aunt Kathy all joined us for roast turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, bread, green bean casserole and 4 pies.
For Halloween, Kaara chose an angel costume and Noah opted for Indiana Jones. Grandma and Grandpa Knock came up for a visit on Halloween and then the kids and Pat went trick or treating. This was the first time the kids had gone trick or treating. I think they enjoyed handing out candy when they got home just as much as going out themselves.
“The day ended without any change manifesting itself. The colonists did not leave the Nautilus. Night came, although unseen in this crypt.
Captain Nemo did not suffer pain, but sunk slowly. His noble face, pale by the approach of death, was perfectly calm. Now and then he spoke, incoherently, of events in his strange existence.—All saw that life was retreating. His feet and hands were already cold…
…The cocks were opened, the reservoirs filled, and the Nautilus, sinking slowly, disappeared beneath the sea.
But the colonists were able still to follow her coarse through the lower depths. Her strong light lit up the transparent waters, as the crypt became darkened. Then at length the vast effusion of electric effulgence was effaced, and the Nautilus, the tomb of Captain Nemo, rested upon the bottom of the sea.”
The Mysterious Island, Jules Verne, 1874
