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Pumpkin Seeds Are The Best Part of Halloween!

Pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin Seeds

What I really love about Halloween is the roasted pumpkin seeds.

Of course, you have to carve some pumpkins in order to get the seeds.

I tried to create some evil, ghoulish jack-o-lanterns.

Bob burst out laughing.

“Those aren’t evil!” he chortled, “They’re earnest and well-intentioned.”

I’m not sure if I should be flattered that he thinks I’m so benevolent.

Or insulted that he mocked my pumpkin-carving skills.

I’ll take the flattery.

What the heck.

I’ll take whatever I can get.

My jack-o-lanterns may be goofy.

But the roasted pumpkin seeds are delicious!

Liz Brenner

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Growing Up – It’s So Unfair!

Growing Up

Growing Up

Growing Up

The Grown Son was lamenting the unfairness of growing up.

Why can’t adults go Trick-or-Treating?

I suggested that he go to the store and buy his own candy.

Apparently that was a terrible idea.

He suggested that since I am petite, I could put on a costume and go trick-or-treating for him.

I could dress up like a child dressing up like a crazy old woman.

He assured me it would be totally believable.

I burst out laughing.

His father had the exact same idea many, many years ago.

I was 14.

Too old for Trick-or-Treating.

But Bob wanted some Halloween treats.

He talked me into putting on a costume and scaring up some candy for him.

I did it then.

I won’t do it now.

Oh, the unfairness of growing up.

Liz Brenner

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Spiders – Ewww. It’s that time of year again.

Spiders - Ewww

Spiders - Ewww

Spiders – Eww

Spiders – ewww.

On a walk through the park this morning, I stopped short.

Right there on the walking path was an enormous, hairy, mouse-sized spider.

I guess it was freaked out too because it was laid out flat and frozen in fear.

Like a deer in the headlights.

Taking a very, very wide berth, I simply carried on.

And then I stopped short again.

There was another one.

This one was standing tall on its long, creepy, spindly legs, ready to pounce.

Ewww.

I imagined they were planning to tag-team me, with one of them providing a distraction to let the other one attack.

I hobbled away as fast as my postop knee would carry me.

Which wasn’t fast at all.

I took another lap around the park.

The next time around, the massive spider troublemakers were gone.

Which is worse?

Seeing the freaky, creepy, icky Halloween spiders?

Or not seeing them?

But knowing they’re lurking nearby…

This is exactly why I don’t pose for pictures in the flower fields.

Spiders – ewww.

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The Holly Bushes in my Front Yard

Holly Bushes

Holly Bushes

I put spider webbing all over the holly bushes in my front yard.

It looked good and spooky.

I never really thought about how I was going to take it down.

Holly is a beautiful, sentimental, Christmasy sort of plant.

But it’s got evil, Halloweeny, razor-sharp leaves.

And all I had in the house were crayon band-aids from our recent ER visit.

Next year I will decorate the front door and the oak tree.

But not the vicious holly bushes.

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October Has Been a Rough Month

A Rough Month

A Rough Month

October has been a rough month.

I’ve been to several on-line funerals.

It’s been hard to keep my mind on the regular things.

This morning the Grown Son walked into my office.

“What’s THAT for?” he asked, pointing to the rainbow clown wig on my desk.

“I wore that to a Halloween-themed Toastmasters meeting,” I told him.

“Seriously?” he asked, horrified, “You didn’t wear that to the funeral service did you?”

I burst out laughing.

Of course I didn’t wear a rainbow clown wig to a funeral service.

But thanks for the laugh, Kid, I needed that.