Happy Halloween!

Happy Hallowe'en!

It's been kind of a quiet one this year. We carved pumpkins yesterday (pictures when I get around to posting them), but skipped the costume party we had originally planned on attending. Instead we watched the first half of Salem's Lot.

Today at church (our fellowship doesn't celebrate Reformation Sunday, though Happy Reformation to those who do) the sermon was on one of my very favorite topics--friendship. Paired with the sermon on kindness we had a few months back, these were two excellent and complementary messages that I really got excited about.

This evening Geo and I went over to some friends' house for chili and passing out of trick-or-treat candy. This is the second year we've done so, so I think it's becoming something of a tradition. The girls who trick-or-treated as Pippy Longstocking and Wednesday Addams seemed especially pleased that I recognized them immediately. And the mom who went as Maleficent commented that I'd be surprised how many people didn't know who she was.

Well, it's time to get ready for bed and finish up Salem's Lot before Sherlock comes on.

Happy haunting, everyone!

Costuming made easy

Do you recognize the eyes?

Because we didn't go to the costume party this year, I didn't costume. Which is kind of okay because the ideas I had would have taken several months at least to put together (and would need the acquisition of appropriate props. I wanted us to go as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. The other was hunters, which would also have required appropriate props. Plus only the cool kids would have gotten it).

One late costume suggestion I made for Geo and myself was going as simple sheet ghosts (or if you wanted to go as Charlie Brown, cut a lot of holes in the sheet). The dude in the above picture has the right idea. Simple. Easy. No muss, no fuss.

Actually, it reminds me of a costume my mom used to scare the livin' daylights out of me when I was a kid. I didn't know it was her, and she just sort of stood there, just outside the glow of the bonfire. Scared me silly, it did.

But it's to bed for me now.

Happy All Hallow's Eve, all.