A REAL pumpkin in a REAL graveyard - kind of . . .
- I guess we had a pretty "cool" Halloween here on our cul-de-sac. This is not a neighborhood with very many children, so one is not going to go broke handing out the goods. This year I found packages of pretzels for the older and pkgs. of teddy grahams for the younger trick or treaters and some candy if that wasn't enough and to have for the biggest trick-or-treater at my house (hint: not Mojo).
- I haven't carved a real pumpkin for years, probably since they hit $5-$6 and I had a nice electric one that smiled himself silly and then got carried back up to the attic each year. But this year, we bought one for $2.50 at Aldi's since I got a hankering to do a real one. All my pumpkin faces look the same since I have no carving tools and cannot do curves. Maybe one day I'll catch a Martha Stewart on TV when she shows how to carve a really neat pumpkin face and I'll get better at it. Not likely, though, since they took Martha off and put that silly doctor show on which tells you what is going to help you out because it's being developed, but it's still "many, many years down the road." Well, that's one too many "many's" to help me.
- We had 57 ghouls and no ghosts. I remember a ladybug and a bumblebee, a cheerleader, and a pirate, and just things, really, that kids have been "being" for years. Now isn't that nice?
Oh yes, and that's a "real" graveyard because Mr. Pumpkin is sitting on Gracie and Lucy's headstone. Oooooohhhoooooooo!
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Bill and I had a wonderful time with Dave and Erin at Erin's parents, Roger and Muriel Pfaff, in Marietta, GA. We drove down on Sunday and spent 2 nights at a Drury Inns & Suites, but ate all our meals (except the free breakfast at the motel) with the Pfaff's. Erin has one sister, Alison, and her boyfriend, Mike, were also in attendance. Mike is a med student at MCV, where Bill's brother Jim went (a few year's ago!).
We got hooked on dominoes, which we played when we weren't eating one of Murierl's wonderful meals. Of course, when we played we ate homemade cookies and candy, made by Erin and her mom. Dinner Sunday night was a wonderful chicken dish over pasta; Christmas Eve was 2 kinds of hearty homemade soups and homemade rolls; and Christmas dinner was prime rib. Wow! Were we impressed. Best thing to me: sticky pecan rolls at Christmas breakfast. Super yum.
On Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at 11:00 p.m. at the Pfaff's Lutheran church. It felt very similar to our Methodist candlelight service. I think the big Christmas present was something called a Wee, an interactive games thingy played on your TV. Like all playstation things, it's beyond me.
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Favorite Quotes
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life . . . PicassoBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind . . . . . . . Dr. SeussThe truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away . . . Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret . . . Henri-Fredric AmielWhat worries you, masters you . . . . Haddon W. RobinsonWhen we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience , so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape . . . Louise Erdrich in The Plague of Doves
1 comment:
Who needs special tools to do a pumpkin? Yours looks great without any curves!
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