HALLOWEEN

 

Hello, friends!  And welcome to November.  Boy has the time gone quickly.  The end of the year will be here before we know it.

It was our first year for Halloween here in the new house and we did not know what to expect.  Joe asked one of our neighbors if there were a lot of kids that showed up and he said no.  So, I bought enough candy for 30 kids.

Around 5:00 p.m. we went out to our deck and sat there in the beautiful weather with a jack-o-lantern filled with M&Ms and peanut butter cups.  It was dead.  Someone was blasting spooky music and songs like "The Monster Mash".  So much fun.  Lots and lots of birds were flying overhead and landing on the electrical wires.  It was sort of eerie.

As we waited the sun began to set.  The sky turned such beautiful colors.  We were enjoying this a lot.  We even saw a planet, but I don't know which one it was.  

I knew we lived close to the Delaware River, but didn't realize we were so close that I could walk to it.  I asked Joe why the silver truck I was looking at didn't move. He said that it wasn't a truck, it was the river.  The trees I saw turning colors were really in New Jersey.  Oops!

Finally, some kids came around.  They were wearing the best costumes.  The first was a group of three kids with their father (or grandfather?).  The one kid was dressed as Tyrannosaurus Rex.  So cool.  The next group had a kid dressed as a minion.  A BIG minion.  There were a few other kids around too.  But since we are a tiny block off the beaten track with no kids on the street a lot of people didn't even know we were there.  Joe fell in love with one little girl dressed as a princess.  She was about 3 or 4 and adorable.

There were a lot of people going home from the businesses around here as we sat out.  One man was walking down the middle of the street and looked so tired.  I guess he was going to the bus stop a block away.  Joe got up and handed him some candy and said, "Happy Halloween."  The man gave him a big smile and said thank you.  It doesn't take much to make someone happy.

Around 7:00 p.m. it was starting to get cold, so we went in.  Usually at our old house we had around 4 or 5 kids.  We got 13 here.  And of course, Joe and I finished up the candy.  We were giving each kid two pieces so there wasn't a lot left.

We called out for sandwiches for dinner, and I was told they were very busy.  It would be about an hour until it could be delivered.  So Joe and I finished the candy.  Three little bags of M&Ms apiece.  I am so glad to not have candy hanging around the house.

Now it's on to the holidays.  I always feel that November 1 is the beginning of the holiday season.  And it seems to have come very quickly this year.

I'm going to get off of here and get dinner started.  We were so short on money last month that I put in only one grocery order.  I have one last dinner in the house.  I have a package of beef cubes.  I'm going to cook them in some beef gravy and serve them over mashed potatoes with a veggie on the side.  I put in an order to ShopRite this afternoon.  I asked to have it delivered because it is so large, and it will show up tomorrow afternoon.  Yay!

I will see you all soon.  Thanks for stopping by.

Kathy