Turn the Porch Light Off

I found this on a blog.  You can see More at designboom.  It's quite a collection.  I liked this one best.

I'm doing something different for Halloween this year.   A new tradition, turning the porch light off and leaving.  I'm not going to be home.  I like parties, but Halloween has gone from trick or treats for the neighborhood kidlets in their costumes to people filling their vans with bundles of kids of kids from elsewhere.  I live near a college and in recent years there are quite a few late arriving college students in masks or not, showing up with their large goodie bags.  Piffle.

For a long time my son would come over and answer the door with me and we would watch Halloween offerings on TV, or Netflix now.  He's working nights now and I miss the company.  My grandkids (can't call them the grandgirls any longer as we've added a boy making 8 all together) don't usually make it over here.  Unless its a weekend they still go to bed on time.  So I am fixing trick or treat bags for the three little girls next door and my grandkids and delivering them early and going out.  I had been handing out some candy and small bubble bottles with ghosts, witches, and goblins for lids.  I get them and other small toys cheaply from mail order houses.  They can be less expensive than candy, and I think add a little fun to the process.  This year since I'm only doing 11 kids I ordered Halloween rubber duckies, one for each kid and one left over for me.   I will put a pumpkin out, but several times someone has nicked it and smashed it in the street.

The kids who want more will not suffer.  Our small town's downtown merchants and several churches have Halloween treats and activities set up for children so there are nice brightly lit places for parents to take the kids or the older kids to go and receive candy and be entertained in some cases.  Except for the tiny ones in their costumes I won't miss it at all.  I will take a evening stroll around town so I will get to see the kids in their outfits anyhow.

Burger and a movie.

Got this picture from All Posters, no idea who took it.

Judi Dench and Michael Williams

Marvelous full moon last night.  I did manage to gaze at it on a brief break of marathon TV watching.  I started watching "A Fine Romance" on Netflix.  It's a British early 80's comedy starring Judy Dench with her husband Michael Williams.  I didn't realize they were married.  Sadly he died in 2001, but they were wonderful together.  I watched the season one years ago and never caught up with it again.  Friday, just as I got into the second season, thinking I'd watch a couple a week, a note from Netflix popped up saying it would only be available until October 1st, shriek!  So I finished my marathon cooking venture, did my visiting, came home, sat on the sofa to watch it being streamed to the TV, hooray for wireless, and began my Netflix marathon. 
 
I was so engrossed that I forgot about dinner. I went into the kitchen and I discovered I had frozen or given away everything I'd cooked.  Full freezer, no dinner.  Jumped in the car, went through the drive-through at (blush) McD's and got a chicken sandwich, raced back and carried on.  Hmm, isn't "Carry On" another British comedy?  I finished Romance.  I love Judi Dench.  Then as I was turning things off, I saw PBS was repeating the newer Upstairs Downstairs, three all in a bunch.  Three I had missed.  I made coffee, got into my jammies.  At midnight it ended and I was wide awake with societal angst and caffiene.  Got in bed and read for an hour, Sue Grafton.

I made it out of bed this morning but I am still in my pj's.  It's nearly noon.  My morning of errands never happened, tomorrow, tomorrow.  Tonight for dinner I have a nice piece of salmon and a yam I picked up on the way home from being McD'd last night.  There definitely some advantages to being retired and having a day or two to fritter.  Back on track tomorrow, whatever that means.