Spoooooky.

We're going to be pretty busy with Halloween the next few days. Tomorrow is "Fright Night" downtown. The shops are handing out candy and doing facepainting, tattoos, games etc. Then on Saturday we've got the Ragamuffin parade, followed by more candy at the Elks club. I don't know if Halloween itself will be celebrated, I can't imagine anyone on our dead-end road will be out. But at least we'll make cupcakes, since the cookies I'm making today will probably be eaten before then.

Dan just finished carving four pumpkins, I think his hand will be cramped for the rest of the day. I found this computer program for doing jack 'o lanterns. Great for those of us who are a bit artistically challenged. You enter in your pumpkins dimensions, pick out eyes, nose and mouths, and then print the pattern. You have to buy the program to get the printable templates, but you can play with the ideas and faces without paying for it first.

Here's Nathan with his pumpkin. In case you're wondering, the pumpkin is also named Nathan.