The Eyes Have It........

The buzzing is still going on about all the "eyes" on last night's buffet table. Meatballs with eyes, creamed-cheese eyeballs...... black olives for eyes on the meatballs, green eyes on the cheese balls. Last night's chefs got into the spirit of Halloween, which made for lots of fun as we all looked over the food dishes on the dining room table. (And found some of them looking right back at us!)

The best costume, by far, was our friend L with his "Paul Sr." of Orange County Choppers get-up. Every time we think of that, we just smile and shake our heads. If you put L next to the real Paul Sr., you would think they were brothers. But until last night's party, we really never looked at L that way, even though my husband and I do watch Orange Country Choppers when we get the chance.

Everyone was caught up in the Halloween spirit last night.... shirts and blouses with Halloween colors and designs, skeleton earrings, plastic spiders in hair, blue and green and black nail polish, face painting, faux tattoos, Halloween socks, light-up rings that looked as if they were spinning on fingers, and everyone wearing the light-up Halloween pendants that we gave out as our friends came into the house.

My husband and I were both flattered to learn that neighbors of ours turned down a Bridge party for last night--- they love to play Bridge but they told their Bridge group that they would just hate to miss one of our parties when they can get to play Bridge any day of the week. Our young friend C and her four friends came to our party instead of going to the High School for the Homecoming celebration. I'm sure they'll want to go to the Homecomings when they get a little older-- they're all just in 9th grade now. C called us up this morning to thank us for letting her bring her friends... she said they all talked about it all the way home, and they called one another first thing this morning to talk about it again. One of the boys said to C: "We've got to do this again-- when's their next party?!"

Well, the next big party is the Open House for Christmas. We don't play Charades then, because the focus is on Christmas, but we always plan some sort of surprise entertainment for everyone. (Which has already been arranged, but I can't mention it here yet.) We've told C that she can invite her friends to that party as well, and she has already asked me if she can come help me with decorations. Not just for the Christmas party, but for any party that "happens to come to your mind." (I just love that girl to pieces.)

Tomorrow is Halloween, and the Trick-or-Treaters will be around looking for goodies and surprises. We have a curfew here... Trick-or-Treating is only allowed between the hours of 6:30 and 8:30, no matter what day of the week Halloween happens to fall on. Little kids are only allowed to be out on the street if an adult is with them, and all teenagers have to be at home by 10:00 at night. Halloween is meant to be fun for kids, and the Powers That Be in the towns here try to keep it that way with the curfew.

We've been having sunny and warm days, and 60-something-degree nights, so I hope that continues for the kids as they go out and about tomorrow night.