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Things are in a whirlwind around here trying to get everything done before I leave for the great white north. I did manage to send off a ‘promise’ and a ‘swap’ today, a full day before my self appointed deadline, and I’m feeling pretty good about that. I’d like to get one more done, and another ‘well on the way’ before we go but such things are not at the top of the list right now. We’ve added another family crisis to our list, as my grandmother (mom’s side) has just discovered she likely has colon cancer. Once we are through the memorial for my grandfather (her husband) I expect we’ll learn more. In any case I am emotionally exhausted, and as a diversion have forged ahead with my Halloween decoration, knowing full well it is really for no one but me.
I hope to have a Flickr slide show to share by the 31st. There will be much cleaning and yard work this weekend, so that there will be little when I get back. The house being clean will make me far more likely to share photos of my decorations. Mostly it is just a collection nick-knacks that I like to spread around the house, but if I had my way (and the funds) it would be decorated like an old boarded up house. I’d board the windows, drape the furniture in drop cloths and string spider web everywhere. “Slim”*, our medical skeleton, would be tucked in a closet somewhere - ‘cause I love a good Halloween pun. And I buy the stores out of the feathered crows and bats, I think they are too cool!
We also have a ‘bag of bones’ for the same reason we have ‘Slim’ and they are scattered through out the house, tucked in little secret places that might elicit surprise if stumbled on. I’m the type of person who fills the medicine cabinet full of ping pong balls, just to see who’s peeking. There’s always one spider on a string somewhere, or some other ‘gag’ and oodles of candles. It’s really not horror movies and gore for me, it’s the trick and the treat, a touch of spooky and mostly fun.
*D, is fascinated with the mechanics of the human body, when Martha Stewart magazine mentioned that full sized, resin, medical skeletons were available for around $100 he didn’t even slow down on his way to the computer. And that is why we have a full sized skeleton, and yes, every year he has a different costume for Halloween. For the last party we put him in the bath tub, filled it with Styrofoam peanuts, slapped a shower cap on his head and the shower curtain in his hand as though he’d been caught ‘en flagrante’!