Halloween

It's almost Thanksgiving, so I ought to take a couple of minutes to blog about Halloween. It was a hoot -- C is now old enough to just start to get it. We tried to get her to try on her Tigger costume a couple of weeks prior and that didn't go over well at all. Maybe getting E in the Pooh costume first and talking up the "candy" angle motivated her to go along with it.

Pooh and tigger were very cute together.



After doing a little bit of trick-or-treating we hung out on the Huntley's front porch and ate their beef stew, like we have for 4 of the last 5 years.



We did the pumpkin thing at the Dallas Arboretum again this year, but we went on November 1 this time -- in case you haven't read the blog entries below, October was quite a bit nuts for us. C didn't do all that well this time, but we went straight to the pumpkins when we got there and had low expectations so we got the shots we wanted.

Narong

Narong and his employees did my parents' landscaping for years in Norman, OK. He was a high school classmate of my brother. He was one of the nicest, most selfless people I've ever met. I hardly knew him -- I only knew him from the times he came down to mow our lawn when I was undergoing chemotherapy and from him helping me fix Lisa's Civic. He got me into eating Pho in Dallas by recommending his favorite Pho restaurant in Carrollton (there's 5 on the corner of Josey and Beltline).

He and my parents grew close over the years. He offered to drive my mother to Dover, AR when her mother died last month – that’s 4+ hours each way. Where did he find the time to do things like that for people?

In the newspaper article about the accident, his brother said that Narong is the type of person "who, if you asked for a $1, he would give you $2. He would do anything for anybody.”

Narong Viravong

1972-2008