Halloween
There was a bit of confusion this morning when we got up about what
time it was. Our computers, bless their souls (??) seemed to know that
it was the end of daylight savings time -- a fact that neither Tom nor
I had completely straight in our minds. The rest of the clocks in the
house had a different time and a comment from Tom that Daniel had
changed the clocks left me completely confused until I just decided
to trust the computers.
Jason was up fairly early with the remote control to the television
glued to his hand. Daniel, after being out partying until (I don't know
what time), got up a bit later. Tom and I managed to get through two
pots of coffee before expending any energy toward getting productive
for the day.
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Tom and I went out and explored a stone yard early this afternoon. Both
of us like stone and there were certainly a lot of good landscaping
ideas to be seen there. The man who owned the place had surrounded his
building with mock yards, stone terraces and planters, fountains and
statues. I'd love to have some of those boulders he had laying around
although I have no idea how we would get them here.
Next door was a nursery and a pumpkin patch. We grabbed three pumpkins
out of the few that were left and brought them home for some loving
carving.
The one on the left is Jason's vampire pumpkin. It was his first
attempt and it looked like a miserable failure until it got dark and
we put the candle in it. Tom's is the middle one. We had to have
a traditional jack-o-lantern, didn't we? Daniel's is the one on the
right, the lovely moon and stars with the cat. It is sort of magical
don't you think?
I'm impressed with them, that's for sure. Notice, there isn't one
there that I made. There is a reason for that . . I make sucky
jack-o-lanterns.
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Surprisingly, we had a good deal of traffic at our door this evening.
Little witches and goblins and skeletons along with Barnies and
ballerinas and fairies. Saw some really cute costumes. We only had
one batch of loud mouthed, vulgar and crude teenagers, all girls. Daniel took
off with them. I certainly HOPE his behavior rubbed off on them. I
suppose it must have since they didn't get arrested.
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Yesterday, I bought another of the Harry Potter books and I've been
wanting to put my face in it, so I think I'm going to do that now.
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Happy Halloween
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