Wow! This makes it two weeks in a row that I have published my post in the actual morning. I guess I'm on a roll, which is shocking considering I'm practically running on fumes. It is a good think I had a cup of coffee this morning.
Let me start out my announcing my new co-bloggers. Brenda will be posting Writing Tips Wednesdays on the first Wednesday of the month. On the weekends, Camelle will be writing Top 5 Best Book Covers and Emma will be posting book reviews.
Despite the rain last week, I did drag out the inflatable Frankenstein's monster and Homer Simpson in a skeleton costume and set them up in the yard, which I hammered in some stakes around the area and stapled crime scene tape to the stakes. I didn't want any kids tripping over anything. Then I set up my graveyard with a fence, lights, tombstones, skeletons, etc.
My annual tradition is carving a Jack-O-Lantern, which I continued this year by carving the Grim Reaper! After all the years, I have never made roasted pumpkin seeds, but this year I made a batch. They were quite tasty, almost like popcorn.
My Halloween decorations got many great comments from trick-or-treaters and parents. I had put together 135 bags of candy and I had two leftover!
The decorations took several hours to put set up, but it took under one hour to take them down on Friday. Good thing the rain stopped.
I don't like listening to the radio after Halloween due to the non-stop Christmas music, though I do own a few holiday themed CDs. I did buy Kelly Clarkson's Wrapped in Red CD that came out last week. Now, I'm om the mood to listen to Bing Crosby and Colbie Caillat. I even bought a Christmas album by Harry Connick JR., though I don't normally care for his music, at a thrift store over the weekend for a dollar. I also bought an Eric Clapton CD and a Rosemary Clooney CD (the two are non-Christmas music). Now, I'm definitely going to have to drag out the White Christmas DVD and watch it soon, and it's not even Thanksgiving yet!
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