Sunny Halloween!

This Halloween has turned out to be a sunny day......amazing, after a run of nasty weather last week! The very rainy day last Saturday turned into a very blustery day on Sunday. We'd had so much rain and gloomy weather, it was discouraging. To my surprise, Monday dawned bright and sunny! And now here we are today with more cheery sunshine and a current temperature of 68ºF/20ºC. It just makes a body feel good!

Halloween Cats!

Fiona and Tux Junior were enjoying the afternoon sunshine when I went up to feed them yesterday.

Tux was playful in this morning's sunshine.....



......running from one fence post to another.

Sad to say we lost his daddy, the original Tuxedo, when he was hit by a car in the road last May. We've been mostly lucky about not losing our cats to the road for quite a while, but sometimes one of the kitty's gets careless (or unlucky).

Pete was soaking up yesterday's sunshine.



Kathy, Kylie and friend, Jill, carving pumpkins in 1987

Anita was asking how we're going to celebrate Halloween.

Since we no longer have any children at home, our Halloweens are rather quiet these days. When the kids were home we would always carve pumpkins, and spend time trying to decide what to dress up as. Then I would have fun creating the costumes. They used to have a parade at school back then, but they don't do that any more at our school. In our elementary school they do have individual classroom Halloween parties for the kids though.

There would also be a party at our church, which we'd attend after I took the kids out 'trick or treating'. That custom, for those of you in countries that don't celebrate Halloween, and might wonder, is going from house to house in the neighborhood to collect candy and other treats, such as apples.

Kylie, myself and Andrew in 1977. I was dressed as Farrah Fawcett of Charlie's Angels fame :)



Here are our grandsons picking out their pumkins last year. Unfortunately we're not close enough to spend Halloween with them, but we do enjoy all the photos their mom and dad take. They like to take the boys to a local pumkin farm each year. They always have a great time finding just the right pumpkin. Last year we did visit before Halloween and took them lovely big pumpkins from our garden. It wasn't a good year for pumkins and squash this year with all the rain we had. We only got a few rather small ones.



"This is the one, now if I can just carry it home!"



Happy Halloween everyone!