Dec. 2 Run: meet at North Park Boathouse parking lot

It's been a little over a year since we had a North Park run, so it's time already!  We'll meet at the parking lot for the Boathouse (map) and then have coffee in the Over the Bar restaurant right next door.  It should take about 35 minutes to get there from Squirrel Hill on a Sunday morning.  If anyone wants a ride, Lainy is driving her van from in front of Colfax School on Beechwood Blvd. (another map) - leaving at 6:25 (unlike the run, that doesn't mean 6:30.)

We had a familiarly comfy Squirrel Hill run last week (entitled:  Reverse Bird Run) predictably involving more uphills than down.  They love us so much at 61C that they asked us to make them our "official" cafe!  But what if there's a breakup?  (Which has happened before, talking to you, Commonplace on Forbes.) Too sad! We must simply go where our Mizunos take us.  And our endorsements:

• There was something about a TV mystery series set in West Virginia, but I can't find it so I'm providing this instead:  Television shows set in Pittsburgh: so many!
• Places to get lots of pies:  5 Points Bakery (apple recommended), Allegro Hearth, and Soergel's.  Also many of our kitchens on Thanksgiving - see Virginia's recipe for special pecan pie below!
• Welcome Blanket - the inventor of the Pussy Hat started another craft movement to make blankets to give to refugees and immigrants and to conceptually counter the cursed "Wall": "what if lines of yarn became 3,500,640 yards of blankets to welcome people in?" 
• The amazing book series starting with My Brilliant Friend is now on HBO - brilliant.
• The Annual Chanukah car and bike parade is happening on Tuesday.  
• Movies:  The Green Book, Widows
• Books:  Last Ragged Breath, Little Fires Everywhere, An American Marriage
• All of those and more on Audiobooks, especially using the Libby App free from Carnegie Library. So much use, "my ears got bruised!"
• Save the date for the Annual Downtown Holiday run:  Nov. 16