Happy Halloween 2022!

 We arrived home Sunday night after dark and Louis Dean did a good job getting us here.

We took our time leaving the ranch and I think it was around 4:00 when we left - the first time.

We got to Mart and had turned onto Texas Avenue when I remembered my art supplies!

I was so set on taking my paintings home I forgot about the oils and brushes!

So back we went to the ranch and it was actually a good thing we did.

The tiny toilet in my tiny camper bathroom is being picky about running the water after you flush.

The trap closes - but there's still a tiny stream of water dripping into the bowl and eventually it will overflow. Not good since we will not be back until the day after Thanksgiving!

So Louis Dean turned the water off to the camper and we were once again on our way home.

Next stop - Sam's for Trick or Treat candy!

I'd already bought packaged pretzels and some Pub Snack Mix so I added a box of full size candy bars to the mix. Trix, Three Musketeers, Snickers and Milky Way!

I figure we don't have all that many trick or treaters so why not??

It was Louis Dean's suggestion and I thought it was a good one.

He's looking all happy sitting out there on the driveway waiting for night to fall.

He moved the scarecrow out to the table and fixed him up with a spooky goblin drink.

We had wine in our goblin goblets and Halloween music was blaring through the open window to Louis Dean's music room! The evening was about to begin!

As we sat out there and waiting for the kids to arrive, we were listening to the music - Ghostbusters, Monster Mash and Adams Family song and then a commercial for men's prostate treatment came on!

He ran in there and put another song set from You Tube on and after a few songs, another weird commercial. That's when I went in and clicked on the 'skip ads' button!

Glad no one came until we got that problem solved.

We had some really cool Trick or Treaters including several older teenagers that dressed up in clever costumes and came with their younger siblings. Everyone enjoyed getting the pretzels and Pub mix but they really smiled when I offered them the box of candy bars and said, "Pick one!"

I think we had every bit as much fun as the kids!

Here's our Bell grands at church on Sunday.

They make me smile!

So I am later than normal in finishing my Christmas paintings this year!

They are not quite dry enough to glaze just yet but I will do that next week and get Amber to take photos so I can have my Christmas cards printed up and canvas copies of Santa and Santa with the Nativity Globe made.

I am hoping to be able to giveaway more than just one canvas this year....

so if you would like to be entered in the drawing for the Santa with the Nativity Globe - just leave a comment and I will draw the winners on Wednesday November 16.

Today Louis Dean and I have been moving furniture and working hard!

We bought a white dresser from Summer and moved the bookcase that held all my cookbooks and was in the sewing room out as well as a small green chest that held some art supplies.

Those two pieces have now been relocated to the storage buildings.

The bookcase in my storage building and I will store all my fall dishes and cups and glasses in it.

The green is in Louis Dean's metal storage building and it still has my art supplies it in and that's fine because it's all crafty kind of paints and such. 

What with unloading the pieces and moving and hauling in the new dresser - we have stuff scattered all over the place. Tomorrow we will organize and put it all together and I will go ahead and take all the fall out of the sewing room and pack it away.

I'm never quite ready to take fall down but since I decorated in August, it's time and I am really getting excited about Christmas. I hope to scale it back just a tiny bit and I have purchased three new trees!

I'm also making brand new stockings for this year!

The only Fall I'm leaving up is the front porch.

It's been my favorite and I won't take it down until Thanksgiving week.

We are going back down to the ranch the day after Thanksgiving so it will be wonderful to be all decorated by then and then come home to a Christmas House!

I'm thinking about hosting my annual Cup of Christmas Tea this year.

The last one I  had was in 2018 when my friend Jutta was here from Finland.

In 2019 I held a Ladies Luncheon instead of a Tea and then 2020 happened and 2021 was a Cousins and Sibling Gathering.

It's fun to plan things and I am always reminding myself that if I don't plan it - it probably won't happen!

It takes just as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt