the fieldwork went a lot better than what I was worrying about. It's always fraught for me know, especially with other people - can I keep up with them? what if my knee gives out? But it went well.
Yesterday afternoon I decided it was close enough to Halloween, so I decorated. (I did most of it yesterday, but some today).
First, a little movie showing the blinky lights I put up, and the moon-phase garland (which I love so much and now am glad I bought from JoAnn's when we still had JoAnn's). And then the critters on the piano. The little Bluey wearing a pumpkin is new this year, as is the pink sparkly ghost (which amused me, both because it's glammed up, and because it vaguely reminded me of the minor Egyptian god Medjed)
Today I also put up the wreath and got the haunted-house doormat (there is a very small white ghost peeking out the door, waving. It's very cute and reminds me of a vintage children's book illustration)
I also got out the thumbs-up skeleton hand and stuck it out in my front garden. This was another JoAnn's purchase, either in 2022 or 23.
It sure hits different now, I'm putting it out a lot less ironically and a lot more "not great, Bob"
There's a Spirit Halloween in town now (I know! We don't have a bookstore or a craft store or much of a supermarket, but we have this, at least for the season). I finally got out there this afternoon. Mostly costumes, and mostly kid costumes (I think it's smaller than most Spirits) but they had some of the anatomically-improbably skeleton things (I already had a spider, and the octopus was too large) but I did buy another "My Little Bony" in a gold finish to match the black with iridescence one I already had:
I don't know. For one thing, theologically dodgy, for another, it lacks a halo. Anyway, I'm thinking of it as a Mothman skeleton
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