Halloween house
Let me just start out by saying that I can't believe it's November already. What's up with that? Now that I've gotten that off my chest, I can tell you all about how great our weekend was. Saturday Megan and Adrian came over to carve pumpkins and watch lots of scary television. On the agenda was: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown; Sleepy Hollow; Nightmare Before Christmas; Van Helsing. Adrian had never carved pumpkins before and so of course he was a bit of a ringer. Here's a picture to show off our efforts:
Going clockwise, starting with the top left pumpkin is: Dave's, mine, mine, Megan's, and Adrian's. Aren't they all just intensely scary? If you were looking at this site in the dark, I bet you just turned on the lights, right?
Yesterday I spent the morning scrubbing algae off of our brick pathway. It was getting really slippery and I was worried that candy-happy kids would come tearing up to the house, slide all over the place, and then hit the ground. Sure enough, the first group of the night saw us and ran right up the walkway. It was nice to have the mental chorus of "Oh no, you're gonna get sued..." quieted immediately. Some friends who don't get trick-or-treaters where they live came over with a chili-making kit, so we made Cincinnati Empress Chili. It was really good. Dave had seconds after everyone left. He probably also had it for lunch today if he remembered to actually take it out of the bag and refrigerate it. We got a fair number of kids which meant there were lots of really cute costumes. I can't decide if my favorite was the little kid running around dressed up as Tigger or the big football player-y high school guy dressed as a woman, high heels and everything. So there you have it, Halloween 2004. I'm a little sad it's over. As a parting shot, here's a picture of our house last night:
