Halloween

[boxofdelights]

We've lived here for 21 Halloweens without one trick-or-treater, even when there were two little girls next door. That's how it goes when when your driveway is a quarter-mile right-of-way cut out of someone else's pasture. My kids used to go trick-or-treating with friends who lived in town. This is the first year Mungo (almost 14) hasn't gone; he would have gone if his friends did, but they didn't. He did go to a Haunted Corn Maze with them.

I meant to hand out candy at my house, but when I got there I realized that my lack of gutters + the recent blizzard + the current balmy temperatures = melting snow dripping on the heads of those who mount my front steps. So the better part of neighborliness was to leave my lights off.

I did clear away several big branches the blizzard had broken off the catalpa, which were obstructing the sidewalk, and swept up all the wet slippery leaves. Which means my brush pile, which I had been stomping down and hemming in with cinder blocks, has grown out-of-bounds again. Neighborliness is hard.

Nixie is having a movie night/sleepover at a friend's house. Hugh, Mungo, and I are watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica.

I called my mom back yesterday. She told me she had had surgery for breast cancer the day before yesterday. They caught it early and got it all, so no chemo, no radiation.

It's amazing that I've figured out how to have communication and relationships even as well as I have. Amazing, I tell you. I am grateful for all the help I've had from Hugh, Nixie, and Mungo.

I'm going to do NaNoWriMo this year.

Comments

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I did NaNoWriMo in the first November that I lived in my own place. It was wonderful. It helped make it home, it helped me make a new life, and it gave me a great excuse to not unpack anything more for a month. I hope it is equally magical for you.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*whew*. glad about your mom's surgery going so well!

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

...and here I think you do communication and relationships amazingly.

I love you.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Oh! So glad that your mom's surgery went so well.

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

The haunted corn maze sounds a fantastic idea - I'd never heard of one before. If we had one where I live, it's reach up to your knees and would have to populated entirely by sprites.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Happy belated birthday! May this year be better than the last, and so on for each year after.