Late Fall Gift

Winter Reprieve

Unless you're a recent transplant to the Upper Midwest, you know not to be fooled by the calendar: every day of mild weather past Halloween is a gift.

(If you're an old-timer, you may actually recall the area's biggest, modern-time snowstorm: the Halloween blizzard of 1991.)

So, save the movies, library, and Mall of America for January, when you'll need it.

Today, I would strongly suggest an outdoor activity -- your pick.

At the Kaplan household, this is officially leaf-raking/window-washing weekend (with a birthday party and trip to the doggie park on the Mississippi -- see next post -- squeezed in in between).