I know I've been a bad blogger lately. I blame it on a combination of frantic writing and the distraction of following the current political race.
This week I've also been reading the galleys for the paperback edition of When Maidens Mourn. Penguin still hasn't released the cover of What Darkness Brings, but hopefully they will soon.
And here is this year's pumpkin. I tried to take a photo of it lit but I couldn't get it to turn out right. I guess I should have taken it outside like the ones above, but it was COLD out there! Thankfully by tonight it had warmed up enough that we could open the door for the trick-or-treaters.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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We had no trick or treaters again. but we haven't had since we moved to the country. The kids all go into town for parties these days. But just means I get to eat the candy.
Charles, I don't want to even think about eating candy! Steve came home with giant bags of candy for trick or treaters who never came, and since it was all stuff I love but never eat, I made myself sick. Blegh...
Boo back at ya ;0 I'm so glad you posted because I've dived back into the Sebastian series from its beginning and loving it even more! Sorry to say we didn't have any trick-or-treaters ...
Happy belated Halloween to you too. I live in a neighborhood that goes all out in its decorations and is besieged with trick or treaters. Gave out over 600 pieces of candy last night and ran out at 8:00. We've lived in suburbs of Seattle (on the east side) for six years now and been lucky enough to not have it rain on us in all six years. The whole neighborhood is a sea of kids and parents. Total party atmosphere. Dads dress up and chase the kids with chain saws (sans the actual "chain") and such. Strobe lights, fog machines, spooky music. What fun!!! I'm happy to hear you've been frantically writing!! 5 more months 'til our next installment. Can't wait. Sabena
Barbara, wonderful to hear you're enjoying it anew. We had about a dozen kids, but they were all little. We used to get big groups of older kids having a great time. I wonder if it's parents not wanting kids to go out? Kinds not wanting to do it? I have such wonderful memories of my own expeditions as a child, it seems a shame that today's generation is missing it. We live in a super safe neighborhood, so this would be the place to come.
Sabena, that sounds like so much fun (although 600 is incredible!). And this would be the place to have that kind of a party, because it's almost always in the 70s here for Halloween--our weather tends to turn cold in early November.
So just to clarify - each kid gets two pieces, so it's 300 kids. Still a ton. Lots of us sit outside on porch with fire pits so we don't have get up every minute. Sabena
I decided not to dish out this year, but now regret it. There were lots of parents and kids out in our historic downtown neighbourhood and I think I might have missed out on the fun. Next year it'll be different.
Sabena, that's still a lot of kids! What fun.
Liz, I keep saying I'm going to quit because we get stuck with so much candy every year. But Steve loves it, and always seriously overbuys for fear he'll "run out." The only year we ever ran out was after Katrina, when we were living in my mom's house and I think the entire city brought their kids there because it was safe and undamaged.
Halloween sorta got cancelled over here on the East Coast. But my youngest one was so upset about it, and there was not much else to do, so I decided to go out trick-or-treating anyway. We met some other kindred souls facing the same situation and together we celebrated what one mom called "life's little victories." Glad I had squirreled away enough candy to share. Sad that so many other children and adults had so very little to celebrate, if at all.
Paz, that must have been really, really hard on all those disappointed children. Hopefully things will be better by next year. I remember Halloween was disrupted around here for years after Katrina, but I don't think the East Coast rebuild will be as long and painful. One of the things that hurt New Orleans (apart from Heckova job Brownie), was our isolation; it's hard to rebuild without a labor force or someplace for them to live.
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