I've not had that many fires this year, but I do like to have a fire on the winter solstice when I can. This year, today was fully cloudy and damp but a few degrees above freezing so I made myself get out there for likely the last time until Spring. We're in for a mild winter, they say, but we'll see.
Happy Solstice, everyone.
Apparently, this checklist has been trending on social media of some sort, I read about it on a website. Similar to the '50 Bands I've Seen Live' trend that I posted back in the first year of this blog, I felt the urge to give my two cents on this one.
There have been changes around here and I'm still not too sure exactly how I feel about it so I'm going to continue taking a break from blogging through the end of the year, I think. Nothing for anyone to worry about, though. I'll write more in due time.
Thank you.
Was a good night for it, but got colder soon after dark. Here you can also see some of the work on neighbor Dave's house, where the inside is gutted and now a new re-pitched roof. Lots of happenings around here, not sure how much I want to talk about it yet, though. Real life needs doing, not writing.
Happy post-Halloween, everyone. It was mostly a quiet night around here, so thankfully I got only about a third of the candy we had last year. We got just 9 trick-or-treaters this year, but were only one of 3 houses on the block that I noticed had their lights on. The last two kids were growing mustaches and it was pretty cold so I shut it down about 7:00. It barely got above freezing yesterday with occasional light snow flurries off and on all day for our first snow of the year, though it didn't stick.
I carved a pumpkin again to display on the front steps last night, and today it is on the stump in back waiting to be ravaged by the squirrels and rabbits. I have the trail camera aimed in that direction but I got a pretty good video of it getting eaten bit by bit last year. The mummy in the windows was showing wear on the fold seams, and I was getting tired of it so this was the last year for that. I also pulled out the mask with the moving mouth LED lights to wear again but that wasn't working right so is also in the trash now.
We had a good run, but I'm not sure I'll do so much next year. It doesn't seem worth it for just a handful of kids so maybe just candy next year, and maybe the flickering flame light bulb again, too, since I have it just for this holiday. Hope you had fun if you chose to celebrate.
From today's walk, same place as last post. It rained hard early today so this must be new.
And an interesting epitaph for this poor bloke, from a few blocks away. Halloween's a-coming!
