Busy, busy........

The days are flying by...... our Halloween party is this week and I've been getting ready for that..... baking and cooking and changing decorations around so the pumpkins and witches aren't in anyone's way during the party. Moving chairs, arranging tables, baking brownies and pumpkin bread and getting things ready for party-day so I won't be in the kitchen from dawn till dusk on the day of the party.

Everyone has always said that I make party-giving look so easy...... well, it is..... if you have a day-by-day to-do list that begins six days before the party.  Plus, you have to have all the decorations up before you send out the invitations three weeks before the party...... so with all of that done and organized, yes, party-giving is going to look very easy.

Miss C was here yesterday and the day before............. not something that's on my party to-do list, but she comes up when she has the time now, and we're always happy to see her smiling face here.  I put the to-do list aside and Miss C and I spent most of the day in town yesterday, walking around the shops, stopping at some yard sales, having lunch at a cafe, and just enjoying one another's company. Before she went back, we went up to J&J's property and searched for acorns............. Miss C has been collecting pecans and acorns and little Autumn-y things to put in a big glass bowl for a seasonal centerpiece.  So there we were...  Miss C, me, and J.......... searching the ground for acorns, and not watching out for snakes and spiders and heaven-only-knows what could have been up in those trees.

My cousins in NY have been keeping me posted on the storm that's heading up that way.... cold blasts on the way from Canada, hurricane winds on their way from the Atlantic Ocean............ if both systems collide, they're going to have a blizzard and a hurricane (a blizzarcane?).  I've been listening to the TV weather wizards and some of them are actually smiling as they're reporting on this "super-storm" that could break all weather records.  They seemed happy to be a part of this historical weather pattern. Give me a blessed break.

The kids up in the northeast barely got to celebrate Halloween last year... it was cancelled in some states because of a freakish snowstorm that pounded parts of the tri-state area last October.  And now they're in the path of two storms, not just one. Say good-bye to another Halloween up there.  I'm hoping that the Great Pumpkin steps in and re-directs those storm systems, sending them both out into the ocean instead of having them hit Long Island.