October 31st Halloween!

It's 7pm and not one Trick or Treater has come

knocking at our door.

Kids do parties these days or go to 

Trunk or Treats.

Oh, well the times are changing.

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The Halloween decorations are 

put out in the stores by the end

of August along with school supplies.

The candy is bought, eaten and re-bought

before Halloween night.

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As a kid of the '60's things were

much simpler.

Sure, we had store bought costumes,

but the bulk of the kids had homemade ones.

My sister and I were ghosts and witches 

quite a lot.

Neighborhood moms made popcorn 

balls, and candy apples.

Yes, we got those crappy

circus peanuts and the inedible

orange and black wrapped taffy,

but we also got fun sized chocolate!

My sister ate her candy, 1 piece at a time

and saved it till way past Christmas!

Me?

My candy was gone before the week was out.

Then I'd sneak some of my 

sisters' stash.

😄

We'd watch the scary movies on TV

and stay up to see Morgus.

The Mummy and Frankenstein with

Boris Karloff,

The Werewolf with Lon Chaney

and Dracula with Bela Lugosi was 

such scary stuff in black and white!!

😯

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The purple Cymbidium Orchid

in bloom, with its velvety petals,

is so beautiful.

Long Sweet Cubanelle Peppers

Some are yellow, some are turning

purple, and some are red.

There's a green Bell pepper too.

That's the last of the veggie crops.

Thai Basil

Marigolds

Sweet Basil

English Ivy

Milkweed with Monarch

Caterpillars munching the leaves. 

2 Caterpillars

2 more...

and 1 more here...

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A few spooky decorations around the house.

When my boys were small,

we had a book with this poem 

and we'd say it every

Halloween.

I couldn't pass up the 

chance to say it again.

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Can't forget Minew,

she accompanies me on 

my daily garden chores.

Well, it's almost my bedtime

so I'll close out the blog with

something I read a long time ago.

It's said that the veil between

the spirit world and the real

world are very thin tonight

after midnight till dawn.

So,

here's hoping

there's no 

Ghoulies and ghosties

going bump in the night,

Good Lord, deliver us!

👻

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