Halloween Season 2019 - This Week In October

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Lots going on in life, as usual. October is flying by. 

The changing leaves are much more visible this past week than the one before. However, they have not yet peaked.

I found the above meme on Instagram and it reminded me of Grandma Alice. There was a kitchen counter at her house that looked like it was taken out of a candy store. Glass jars were filled with old school candy including what you see pictured above. There was also lots of hard candy with gooey centers - very old school. Dale hated circus peanuts. I didn't love 'em but I think I'd take them over candy corn. 

Earlier in the week we met up at Psycho Suzi's with Sara and Tim and also Sara's brother Carter and his girlfriend. The place was decked out for Halloween. I found this bat skeleton to be rather likable as opposed to some of the other more gruesome stuff. 

We got some light snow on Friday and Saturday.

It wasn't enough to accumulate.

This snow happened on the 11th and 12th. Last year I reported snow on October 14th. 

Halloween displays are popping up more and more around the neighborhood. The neighbors who set up the above display have been doing this for a few years now. 

I'm seeing window displays as well. I asked my friend Noel if she put out paper cut-outs at her house as a kid. She said she did and she mentioned the skeleton with the movable bones like the one pictured above. I told her we had that same thing along with a black cat and a bunch of other ephemera. 

On Fridays the kids at school and I will do Just Dance which I find on youtube. We did the one you see above which is This Is Halloween from  the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. 

Oh, and I bought some Indian corn at Kowalski's too.