Monday, October 31, 2022

barely a boo

Such a quiet Halloween around here! I just got these jack o' lanterns out in time. We usually decorate the intervening week between Big A's birthday and the day, but this year Diwali was in that week too, so I decided to go v e r y slow. 

At was at a conference, Nu was going to "couples-costume" it with a friend but then they decided not to. I wore one devil's horn at work (half devil, half child in a tongue-in-cheek literary ref). 

It was raining this evening on our quiet street and we got NO trick or treaters. 

Boo.

(Perking up now close to the witching hour watching [via YouTube] fabulously costumed students doing a funny and spooky concert in the college chapel. Looks like a totally full house over there.)

4 comments:

Nicole said...

No trick or treaters! Boo indeed. Too bad!!

Gillian said...

Kipling poem costume. Nice.

StephLove said...

We got 40 or 50. I lost count.

maya said...

50 seems like a perfect number, Steph... THat's how many Nicole had too, if I remember right.

Thanks Gillian :).

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