Seasonal decorating is very exciting around here.
Liliana begs for d a y s — last thing at night or first thing in the morning — if we may p l e e e e e e a s e take the Hallowe’en decorations out of storage.
And out comes the tub, with its creepy bits and pieces, and the house transforms into one of imagination and (pretend) terror.
Round about the cauldron go,
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the caudron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble,
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Two days to go!
The Country Mice 
So, then, these are just typical “house scenes” for y’all? Cool. When are you going to fix it up for Halloween? Also, why don’t you spell it, “Hallouween”?
Down here pumpkins and Jack-o-Lanterns are adorning more and more front porch steps. I’m getting and carving mine this afternoon. Later in the day a friend from college days rolls back into town for a couple of days. I brought up a sack of oysters from S. Ala on Wednesday and they’ve been iced-down on the front porch since. So a few friends will join me and Keats on the front porch this evening and we’re going to shuck oysters, drink beverages and generally be convivial. And abduct passers-by and conduct unnecessary experiments on them in the back room I’ve converted into a lab. This will not be easy as the lab is still a puppy and there’s not much room in him yet.
We’ll make do. We’ll make do . . .
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Ohh. This is great!
I especially love the picture frame.
Mary
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