Tall Tales from Kansas

With exactly 90 minutes before the trick or treaters are due to arrive I have finally hung up the banner that goes over the fireplace. Not that any tricksters in costume will be coming IN to the house, it’s just (as mom would say) the principle of the thing. Halloween is today. The banner should be up.

I am an unabashed kid when it comes to the “feeling” of halloween. I am not one of those people that costumes up to hand out the candy, but I do like to spread a little orange and black around the house and think about where the pieces came from.

Every year at Halloween I tell myself to make another hooked pumpkin. I have exactly 2 and it’s high time I did a third. As Mary Ann said today about something completely different I have to “buckle down and do it“. I like imagining all the ones I will make… next year, for sure. That’s the thing about making, the idea of it is almost as satisfying as the actual doing.

Well let me get to the business of being ready to exclaim over the wee hobgoblins that may be arriving any second. Happy Halloween to all.