Summer Harvest

  There are as many little ones still on the vine in both the front and backyard. The fish tank water has produced some monsters, twice as big as any you ever see at the grocery store. This is only my second big gourd harvest ever. I don't know why I don't get them every year. I don't think there are any pumpkins or squash this year either, just gourds. Some of them are so big that I thought they were yellow and spaghetti squash, but they aren't. 

 

Halloween 2024

  Watched A Ghost Story on free MAX. It was good. The pet cemetery was sad, but the sky was orange and black. 

Halloween & More

 

Shannen's Gifts

   Free HBO and MAX this week, looks like a load of commie 💩 there. Watching The Watchers, it's alright. Shannen O'Lantern's seeds with salt and butter, (out of oil), took twice as long to bake but taste twice as good. Frankie loves them. He also loves guinea wings. Although he could come and go from the fairy cottage to the barn he does not try to run away. He actually gets nervous that I'm going to toss him out. Sir Frankie Crisp is eating good in the neighborhood. He loves to play with toilet paper and paper towel rolls. My black Betta, Lennox, is doing well too. He's so black you can't see his eyes, beautiful. I used half of Shannen's sweet meat to make a dozen homemade pumpkin muffins. They're good. I still have a pot in the fridge to bake a cake with later. I've been captive in the kitchen long enough. I've got a costume for tomorrow that I've not been able to wear, so I'll see you then. Have a Happy Halloween! 

Shannen O'Lantern

  Shannen O'Lantern is one of two big white pumpkins that grew outside the front door as their mama, last year's pumpkin, was too heavy for me to move. Shannen smells good. The witch, Tillie, came to me from Gettysburg College. I will be roasting her seeds, but Shannen is very meaty, so I might make some muffins too. Have a Happy Halloween! 

Vintage Halloween Music

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Halloween Trading Cards

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Growing the Big One

For Shannen. Her mama was my favorite pumpkin ever. I turned her into a coach. She was too heavy to move. Now we have a beautiful daughter. Wonder if she'll get as big as her mother? O, My Ra! season two is set up and coming soon. I have a couple of other fun surprises too. 

MaMa Pumpkin is New Again

 While I'm cleaning out Vishnu's tank had to share the pumpkin at the front door. Last year Ron got me a big moonlight white pumpkin. It was too heavy for me to move, so she's been sitting by the front door between the holly all this time. It's been so hot that I have to water her. I've been using the water from the fishtanks. She's enormous. I had to drape her over the holly, otherwise we wouldn't be able to use the front door. My five dollar little market mums from last year and the morning glory that reseeds itself around the mailbox are also gigantic. Fishtank water is good stuff. I change their water once a week, about twenty-four cups. I have three small aquariums. I recycle it for my houseplants too. The Norfolk pine is stunning, and I had a bit of holly that I'd decked the halls with years ago that has to be transplanted outside as she has outgrown her pot. 

Mrs. Peter

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Pumpkin Coach

 

The Most Beautiful Pumpkin Ever

 Spent the day sick in bed only to wake and discover that Ron had gotten me the most beautiful pumpkin ever. It's too big for me to lift. I'm going to turn it into a magical witch's coach rather than carve it, so I might leave it out for more glorious pumpkins next year. 

Baby Pumpkins

 We're so pleased with our baby pumpkins this year. Maybe the squirells won't steal them. When I first saw a squirell with one I thought he had a ball in his mouth. These ones have grown directly from their mother, that's the best way. That's why you see pumpkin farms with leftover pumpkins. Something about the seeds being protected by their mother is so much better than planting them from seeds. I don't carve all the pumpkins, some, I just leave out some place that is rather protected and gets a lot of water. Alongside the house, beneath a gutter, is ideal. These had a big white warty mother, so I wonder what we'll get. Gourds are the same, but it is best to step on them, bust them up, as their shells are harder than pumpkins. I'm thinking melons are likely the same as I plant melon seeds but don't get any melons. Probably going to have to leave some whole melons out next year. That might work with cucumbers too. 

The Queen of Halloween

                                                     The Queen of Halloween
 

Spooks!

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Planting Bat Seed for Sale:

Planting Bat Seed

November Jacks Coaster Set

 

Coaster Set

Have a Happy Halloween!

 

Dreams 10/30

 

Dreamt I was back at my parents' house and a force was rounding people up. I ran to the neighbors', behind a row of jagged boulders that really aren't there. I went down, deep between them, it was very dark. There was a little round table covered with a cloth, and I hid under it for sometime, but found myself ousted like a rabbit and lined up among others, who I don't know, against a large rock face. It was green with bushes beyond there, and I saw someone run. The girl with the dark hair, next to me motioned that I should do the same, and I did. Once again, I hid, only this time beneath some bushes where I woke.