Saturday was a gorgeous fall day, so after doing some housework in the morning, we had soup and grilled cheese for lunch, then went to Lake Needwood to walk -- first around the lake where we saw ducks, cormorants, herons, and turtles, then along the creek where we saw hawks and squirrels. There were plenty of red and yellow leaves plus still enough green for beautiful contrast, and not a lot of people on the trails. Before coming home, we stopped at Roots Market for the new Beyond Chicken and a bunch of other things. We ate the Beyond Chicken for dinner with tater tots and chocolate malt balls we got there.
After a brief conversation with Daniel, who's in Portland with his girlfriend, where they had dinner with his aunt and uncle from Salem, we we watched Dune on HBO Max. It didn't feel to me like the next Star Wars (to be fair, Lucas swiped some things from Herbert), but I enjoyed the world-building and the performances, and the details are sticking with me better than both the books, which I haven't read since high school, and the movie from the '80s, which I rewatched most recently with younger son a few years ago. If we're being honest, though, I'm looking forward more to the Avatar sequels. Let's just not talk about the Terps or Dodgers!
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