Skip to main content

Spooky Plagues

 I love driving around with my kids and seeing people's cute Halloween decorations.

As for my own house, though, I haven't really put up much. Inside, I have exactly two (2) small decorations that are Halloween specific. It's just not a priority for me.

However, yesterday I realized that our house is already Halloween-themed without any extra effort on my part. For example, we have:

- Skeletons: baby teeth count as bones, right? The Tooth Fairy doesn't throw these away for some reason.

- Banshee: electric pencil sharpener

- Spiderwebs: we let the real spiders do these themselves. Last week I started mowing the lawn, stopped, and came back an hour later to see a newly-strung spiderweb on the lawn mower. Free decorations!

- Ghosts: this month I have become very interested in learning about William Clayton and his in-laws, so they and their stories have taken up residence in multiple tabs of Google Chrome. I have been haunted by the awkwardness and angst in William's journals from his late twenties. 

- Undead: somehow there are still grasshoppers. We think local cats and magpies ate our adopted lizard pets but really they should have stuck to annihilating the grasshoppers.

- Witches: there has been a coven of Ditch Witches in our part of town (sometimes blocking part of our driveway) and figuring out which roads aren't closed has been as tricky as a corn maze.

- Kraken: I don't have one to release because it turns out it doesn't actually exist.

- Bats: magpies count as bats, right?

- Scarecrow: This one we actually do have on our porch. It wouldn't have done any good in our garden because the grasshoppers have no fear of humans, as evidenced by the one that somehow jumped down my pants and stayed there the whole time I was mowing the lawn.

So, as you can see, our house has plenty of features to make it perfectly spooky for Halloween. Especially the grasshoppers.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Good News Limericks in a Year of Bad News

Every cloud has a silver lining 73. April 22, 2024 During pilgrimage down to yon church,  My young kin all stopped with a lurch. "This tree in our gaze Has no sweet-smelling bouquets!" "Nay, tis the Bradford pear smirch." 72. February 10, 2024 When she saw the young back-country boarder, The cougar thought his flesh might reward her. He returned her attacks With his snowboard (new wax!) Now he's glad that his life is not shorter. https://ksltv.com/620892/cache-valley-man-fends-off-cougar-attack-with-his-snowboard/ (I've heard this might be a hoax, so maybe it didn't deserve a limerick. oh well.) 71. June 24, 2023 Like the floor near a food-dropping tot, The freeway was paved French fry hot. This megasized mess Was grating, yet we're blessed The mashed boxes held no missile plot. https://ksltv.com/560796/french-fries-scattered-across-i-15-after-semi-trailer-crash/?fbclid=IwAR3iA8jgYdXWZKRf5xsDG901_bC6r3B2KWRkX3EIxhhpE61TxxeBBdD-NWA 70. March 23, 2023 ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Ski Day

Everyone knows that sisters argue about wearing each other's clothes, but I hadn't realized I would have similar arguments with my preteen son. We were trying to get out the door to go skiing today, but first we had to make sure we had ski gear that fit. Last year, I had cobbled together an assortment of boots, skis, and poles from DI for cheap, but this year, since he had supposedly outgrown them, I had shelled out the big bucks at the local ski swap to acquire used boots, skis, and poles of similar quality to the DI ones (the boots had duct tape on them). Since we didn't have any gear that fit me, I asked my sister if I could borrow hers for the day. She gladly obliged, and I drove the 5 minutes to her house to get them. Unfortunately, the boots seemed a little small for me. She reassured me that she could get them on, and as I warbled "Sing, Sweet Nightingale," she tried with all her might to squeeze my foot in.  Unfortunately, I was the ugly stepsister who nee...
Post a Comment
Read more

Art Exhibition Opening Mixer

 Right now, the Restore gathering is going on in Sandy, Utah. People such as Terryl Givens, David Butler, and Patrick Mason are presenting their insights and testimonies.  Last night, there was a free art exhibition. I was mildly interested in going, but there were a few things holding me back: 1. The distance (on a school night no less) 2. Traveling alone with a baby for that long in the car and 3. A deep and abiding fear of intellectuals (of which there would probably be some in attendance) So instead, we went to the library to get some books signed by local authors Frank L. Cole and Tyler Whitesides. Although I wasn't able to cross "attend a religiously-themed mixer" off my list of activities I did, going to a crowded activity where I recognized a few people sort of counted in my book. But I still felt like I needed more introspective LDS art in my life. Luckily, just as they did 7 years ago when I wasn't able to attend the New York Mormon Arts Festival, the kids ...
Post a Comment
Read more