Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Do you have special plans for Halloween?

 We will be helping at Fall Fest at our local Mall. Our church will be hosting fun activities and the kids can Trick or Treat at all the stores in the Mall.

Once Upon a Time, we had little boys who said " Trick or Treat"

Captain Rex and Commander Cody

 

Our boys loved Star Wars - still do - they are excited for the new movie.

Trick or Treat ~ Give Me Something Good To Eat

Dirt Cake with Worms

 Happy Halloween

 Have a fun weekend!

 

It is a Happy Halloween Hodgepodge

Meow!

Welcome to the Hodgepodge!

Joyce asks the questions.

We answer the questions.

1. Are you comfortable with silence? If you're home alone, do you like silence or do you need regular background noise? Do you seek out times and places to be silent? What's your favorite place to find silence/be silent?

When I am home I like to have my music playing in the background. I like to have my favorite radio station playing Classical KUSC.

I do not listen to any sort of music when I go for my walk or xc ski. I like to just listen to nature.

I love to just sit and be silent by a body of water, Lake Superior or the Elk River are my favorite places.

  2. October 28th is National Chocolate Day. Can't let that go by without a mention now, can we? Will you celebrate? How? Let's say you can have one of the following right this very minute... a cup of hot chocolate, a strawberry dipped in chocolate, a bowl of plain chocolate ice cream, or a slice of chocolate pie...what's your pleasure?

I love chocolate cake, brownies, chocolate frosting, dark chocolate, milk chocolate and homemade hot chocolate. Yummy! Right this minute, I would take a cup of homemade hot chocolate with whip cream.

 3. How do you feel about blue jeans? Favorite thing in the world to wear or nope, don't own a single pair? How often do you wear blue jeans in a typical week? Do you own a blue jean jacket?

Love blue jeans.

Yes, I do enjoy wearing them. When I find a style or brand I like, I will buy two pair. 

I wear jeans usually 5 times a week.

Yes, I have a blue jean jacket. 

 4. Are you superstitious? If so, in what way?

No, I am not. 

I love hearing about baseball players superstitions, it just makes me chuckle.

 5. If you had to come up with a costume using only things you have on hand right now, what could you come up with? 

A cat!

Black shirt and pants.

Cat ear headband.

Eyeliner.

6. What scares you a little? What do you do when you feel scared?

Walking in the dark. I am always looking behind me.

Having my husband hold my hand makes me feel better. When I am scared, I reach for his hand.

 7. Perhaps today will be the day I ______________________________.

I finish a knitting project I have been working on forever!

 8.  Insert your own random thought here. 

 Happy Halloween!

Autumn Harvest

 As September rolled in I changed my Fresh Cut Flowers and Produce sign to ~ Autumn Harvest.

 For Sale

 Indian Corn

Bumpkins

Strawflowers

Corn Stalks - bundles of 12 corn stalks with a bow

Zinnias

Now I am closed for the season and thinking for next year.

We always like to try a new vegetable or flower.

For the 2016 garden season I know I want to try Kohlrabi. A fellow gardener at the Community Gardens gave us one to sample. I really liked it. We might try growing Popcorn. My son Atticus is tossing that idea around.

 We have all winter to think about the 2016 garden season.

For now the Garden Stand is  ~ Closed for the Season.

It was a fun year!

If you are new to The River, check out a few of my fun garden stories from this season. 

 

Open for Business 

 You've Got Mail at The Little Garden That Could

The Little Garden That Could

"Tis merry, merry in the Spring, 

And merry in the Summer time,

And merry when the great winds sing through Autumn's woodlands brown ~

And in the Winter, wild, and cold, Tis merry, merry too.

William Howitt