We Came, We Saw, We Haunted

Yes, 'tis true that this post is exceedingly late in it's posting.  My only excuse is "Superstorm Sandy", and it is a poor one.

Sandy was forcasted to hit our area and bring snow, flooding, damaging winds and power outages.  Luckily, I didn't read those forcasts, so I didn't have my typical anxiety attack about the power being out for weeks.  Also luckily, Sandy didn't really blow through here, but sort of passed around us, leaving us with minimal wind damage, and 4-5 inches of cold rain (which was actually really good for our well.)  It wasn't so pleasant taking care of all of the animals during all of that rain.  It involved actually going out into the rain multiple times daily to take the dogs out and care for the chickens, and then drying off the dogs again when we returned to the house.  If ever there was a time I wished we raised cats and gerbils, it was last week!

The fortunate children of our town had their Trick-or-Treating over and done with long before Sandy came over the horizon.  As I mentioned previously, our town celebrated on the Thursday BEFORE Halloween, and had the costumes packed back up in moth balls by the time Halloween actually rolled around.

We are usually invited to a friend's home for a party and Trick-or-Treating in her little village, but this year, she called a few days before the big event to cancel because of illness.  The girls were understandably disappointed, and not just because of the lack of candy.  I usually buy a GIANT bag of candy at Sam's Club to take along for our friend to use for Trick-or-Treats, so we had candy covered.  Mostly they, OK...really mostly L, was disappointed because she would have no one to show her costume to.  I appealed to our good friends in town, and to Mom and Dad, and they all agreed to let us come for a Halloween visit to show off their costumes.  They were even kind enough to share their Halloween Haul with the girls!

J dressed as a Gypsy this year

L changed her mind at the 11th hour, and decided to wear the "Colorful Witch" costume that J wore a couple of years ago instead of her cute little kimono.  Notice the black lipstick and nail polish!


L the "Colorful Witch"

In the end, I believe that the girls were satisfied with the experience.  My thoughts, well...JP's and mine, remain with our friends whom we were unable to visit with this year.  May their illness be treatable and without much discomfort.  We will look forward to seeing them next year in our next round of costuming!