Hey, Kid...Wanna Treat?

Look what I'm passing out

in addition to candy:

BOOOOOKS!!!

BUT... I don't get many trick-or-treaters.

Do you think this will work to lure them up my hill?

Here's hoping!

A Comic For Meeee!

Since I titled my post from yesterday before I saw this,

I'm choosing to believe the talented Mark Tatulli drew it 

just

for

me.

I Knew They Would Come In Handy!

A while back, I mentioned that I was burning through Lysol wipes.

I saved a bunch of the empty containers,

because they seemed just right for an as-yet-unknown project.

And this weekend, I figured out the project!

 Dammit, Minnie!

Okay, let's try it again.

I give you... ghost luminaries!

These things are so freakin' easy 

I made a dozen in about as many minutes.

I just pulled off the labels,

Sharpie-d the faces...

... popped in some color-changing tea lights...

... and I was done!

Aren't they nifty?

(I also tried making a sugar skull luminary,

but I think those would work better with acrylics, instead of markers.)

They'll be scattered around the front yard come Halloween night,

so hurry on over, trick-or-treaters, to see something cool!

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(My Pinterest photo, because I'm hoping this will be as big
as the glow stick in the toilet paper rolls.)

It's The Moooost Wonderful Tiiiiime Of The Yeaaar!!

HALLOWEEN, amirite?

I LOVE IT.

I decorate like crazy...

 ...so of course I added a little Halloween flair 
to my Little Free Library:

But when I turned over my pumpkin...

Aiiiiii!!!

Pillbugs had started snacking on my pumpkin!

Measures must be taken!

So I got myself some timothy hay from the pet store...

... covered an exhausted raised bed with it and some pumpkins...

... draped some orange solar lights over my "pumpkin patch" sign...

... added a four dollar scarecrow from Joann's, and I was done!

As for my pillbug-riddled pumpkin,

which I moved to the pumpkin patch?

Aiiii!!!!

The pillbugs were still there!

They must have burrowed in deep.  

(Gross.)

But the other pumpkins still looked smooth and lovely,

protected a bit by the timothy hay barrier.

As for my funky punk?

I guess I'll just have to take advantage of its decay,

when it comes time to carve.

Oh My Glob!

I got my new staff ID badge today,

and yikes!  Does it have a bad photo!

Do you think they'll notice how I've improved it?

Probably not, since the thing is turned around 80 percent of the time, anyway.

Basil Shame

Back last March, I started a LOT of basil.

Well, not quite that much, but a lot.

This was going to be the year I put up jar after jar of basil.

This... didn't happen.

I knew I was supposed to be pinching off the blossoms to make my basil nice and bushy,

but...I was lazy the flowers were pretty, y'know?

However, the basil seemed to rebuke me every day.

But at least I had my tomatoes, right?

And that's when the birds showed up!

I would run at them, screaming like a crazy lady,

all "Get away from my tomatoes, you birds!!

"Aaauuuugh!!! Get away!!"

Then I realized, the birds weren't pecking at the tomatoes.

They were eating the basil seeds!

I wasn't lazy with my basil after all!

I was being a friend to the birdies, and growing one of those cool bird gardens.

I'm practically Saint Francis of Assisi.

Just call me Saint Dammit Minnie of the Kitchen Garden.