HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEN!!

Boohaaaaahhhh BOO!!  Oh yeah, it's my favorite holiday ... HALLOWEEN!!  I admit, I usually do it up to the nines on this day every year, but this time I passed.  For several years now everyone is doing the trunk or treat thing.  What a letdown for the kids who don't get to go door to door and say BOO!  They just collect candy from the trunk of your car.  That's no fun at all. 

Up until the day I retired, we celebrated Halloween every year at work.  Everyone in the office was required to dress accordingly ... from witches, to ghost brides, to Stepford Wives ... you name it, we did it.  On this particular year I was Jack Skellington.  

This year there isn't even a pumpkin sitting outside anyone's door.  On the other hand, it's supposed to rain.  Have you ever trick or treated in the rain in a gunny sack that held itchy oats for the horses?  With chicken feathers stuck in your hair?  Oh yeah .... fun I tell you!!

Here's my costume of the year ... and if I ever dress up again, this is what I'm doing.  Cutest costume EVER!!

I forgot to mention at Bingo on Tuesday, we were treated by one of the volunteers to a dessert extraordinaire.  I love pumpkin desserts, and this Pumpkin Crunch Cake was AMAZING.  I found the recipe today and will try to recreate it in the next day or two.  

Maybe I'll get lucky this time!!

In the meantime, because I had to wait for a trip to the store for pumpkin, I whipped up a batch of white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.  Oh yes ... there's an entire $11.00 bottle of nuts in there!!  No one said they would be cheap.  I also found these Nonni's biscotti ... salted caramel.  They probably have fewer calories than these cookies!!!

I spent the rest of the morning at the Senior Center deciding on the menu for our Senior Christmas Dinner.  110 of them to be exact, so I will once again be manning the ovens in December.  The problem remains that no one likes green bean casserole, or carrots, or corn, or anything considered a vegetable.  Seniors can be picky!  Unless it's the pumpkin pie .. they LOVE that!!

Next up a haircut appointment, where I once again got scalped.  Honestly, when you say just a little, it means two inches disappear behind you before you can throw up your hands.  

This morning I am once again off in the rig to the RV Repair Shop.  That shade I pulled down that unraveled all the way to the floor requires repair.  Hopefully they will remove it, get the numbers they need and I can return home until the order comes in.  No telling how long that will be.  Maybe before Christmas?

So steer clear of those ghouls and goblins, and don't let the bed bugs bite ... or is it vampires?  Maybe put on the Corpse Bride or Beetlejuice to get in the mood for the candy giveaway.  Oh yes, I got candy just in case ... full size Snickers Bars.  With my lack of trick or treaters however, they will be mighty tasty from the freezer as the year goes by!!