"October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thing loves to die in bright colors."
~Henry Ward Beecher

Tomorrow is the storybook character costume parade at Libby's school because they are out of school on Friday. They are also having their fall party and her teacher assigned Libby to bring in a veggie tray. Libby screamed, "That's a rip off!" on Monday when her teacher sent home the party assignments. :-) She said, "My friends get to bring in brownies, cookies, and candy and I have to bring a veggie tray?!?" I reminded her that just because she brings in a veggie tray that doesn't mean that's all she gets to have at the party! :-)

Besides putting together a veggie tray tonight Libby put together little "goody" bags for some of her friends. Libby is dressing up as a vampire so she wanted to give her friends fangs so she put together little bags that had red fangs, a little candy, and a bouncy ball with a spider inside. On the note we put "Have a "fang"-tastic Halloween!
After Libby was in bed I made her lunch for tomorrow and tried to come up with Halloween-ish things to call each of her food items for tomorrow. I was tired so please forgive my un-originality (and the boring labels)! :-) Her juice became witches brew, her grapes became goblin warts, her carrots became werewolf fangs, her marshmallows became ghost poop, her go-gurt tube became Frankenstein snot, her jello became vampire brains, and her turkey wrap became mummy fingers. :-)

"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
~Humbert Wolfe

We were Booed so we Booed them back!

About two weeks ago we were BOOed by our neighbors. For some reason when I mention that to people no one seems to have a clue what I'm talking about. :-) For those of you who don't know what it means to BOO someone you get together a little treat and attach a BOO sign with a little message/poem on it. The message/poem explains that you are being BOOed by one of your neighbors and you don't know who they are but once you've been BOOed you have to get treats together and attach the meesage/poem and then leave it on another neighbors door, ring the doorbell, and run like crazy because you are supposed to keep it a secret as to who BOOs which house. Well, in a neighborhood that has three houses it's not that hard to figure out who is doing the BOOing. :-) Two weeks ago we were BOOed and this weekend I finally got around to making a treat container and filling it with treats for us to BOO back.
Libby loved running up to our two neighbors, putting it on their door knobs, ringing their doorbells, and then running like crazy. She walked up to the first neighbors house and then ran like crazy after ringing thier doorbell but at our second neighbors house she darted up their walkway and then ran like someone was after her after she rang the doorbell. :-) She was a little too fast for me to get a clear picture at the second house but here is what I got:
Ok, like I said before I'm not much into Halloween. I don't have anything against Halloween but unfortunately for the holiday it falls during my FAVORITE time of the year - fall. So for me Halloween gets overlooked. But, at Libby's request I'm trying to get more into Halloween for her and decorate for a little longer period than the usual two days that I've put out Halloween decorations in the past. Tonight we finally got around to putting up our outside Halloween decorations. I think next year I will do it earlier in October because Libby was so happy tonight as we were putting the decorations up.
We put up the few jack-o-lantern things that I have and we added some orange lights. I WAS going to make a Halloween wreath this year but just haven't had the time. Oh well...maybe next year. Here it is with the flash on so you can see everything:
And here it is with the flash off:
And Libby wanted me to be sure to add a picture of her ghost...I think his name is Ghosty but I can never remember. :-)
It wasn't a lot but Libby was thrilled with the change. Her request for next year is more Frankenstein...she's fallen in love with him this year and wants more of him in our front yard next year. :-)

Fall festivalpalooza - Week 4

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on,
and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October."
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Today was week four of the fall festivals and this one was the "big one" - and it is also by far my favorite one. Debs, Karen, Kristina, Amanda, and I all met early this morning at Starbucks for some much needed caffeine and then we headed out to McIntosh. It was great as always and the fun part is always hanging out with the girls.

I got a necklace to match my beautiful bracelet from a couple of weeks ago (and I also got the beautiful earrings, too, so now I have a complete matching set!!). I also got an adorable little black spider, and two Halloween signs.




After lunch we went to eat at our usual spot that we go to after the McIntosh Fall Festival. The food at Mildred's was delicious and I even got to have my annual slice of pumpkin cheesecake. Mmmmmm!

After lunch Karen and I went with Debs because Debs was finally getting her ears pierced!! Woo hoo! I've been trying to talk her into that for a while now and she finally caved. ;-)


Today was filled with A LOT of laughter shared with some wonderful friends!! It was a great, great day!!!

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods."
~William Allingham

"I love fall! Fall is exciting.
It's apples and cider. It's an airborne spider.
It's pumpkins in bins. It's burrs on dog's chins.
It's wind blowing leaves. It's chilly red knees.
It's nuts on the ground. It's a crisp dry sound.
It's green leaves turning and the smell of them burning.
It's clouds in the sky. It's fall. That's why...
I love fall."
~Author Unknown

"October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter."
~Nova Bair