our halloween

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I think when you sign the papers for a house, there is an agreement that you will hand out candy on Halloween. So we did our civic duty, and obliged the princesses, ninjas, and firemen who knocked on our door all evening, to the dog’s great annoyance.

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Once we felt our time trapped in the house was done, we took a walk around the neighborhood to check out the decorations. Over the last couple weeks, we noticed a certain house kept getting spookier and spookier, and we were excited to see its final reveal.

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Then we settled in at home with a large piece of pumpkin pie. A perfect little Hallowevening for us.

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sick days

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It seems like I always get a bad cold right around this time of year, every year. I forget how much of a bummer it is to have a cold.

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So I’ve been drinking tea, and trying to work on a quilt. I also forgot how much math is involved in quilt making, and how hard it is to do math when your head is fuzzy.

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the great outdoors

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Being outside really is great. Just a couple hours in the faux fall fresh air, and all my cares (except my constant worry about the state of the plants) slip away. I spent some time last week doing a little work around the yard.

There is no number high enough to describe the amount of times I have lost the clippers in the yard.

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These flowers lost all their leaves at the end of summer, but they are making a strong comeback now.

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I cleaned a bit of the gutter out, and a lizard almost killed me, but the view up there wasn’t too bad.

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And to cap off an already pretty perfect day, frozen yogurt with my best friend.

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the great pumpkin patch

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This fall is the best because I got to take Jon to THE pumpkin patch! One of my very favorite places. Fall is best celebrated by stomping through a field of dirt and vines in search of the perfect pumpkin. And the smell of apples when you go into the barn is intoxicating. I would consider coming back as a fruit fly as long as I got to live in that barn.

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Each year, the patch decorates pumpkins to go with a theme. This would be the coolest job. The theme was mythological creatures, and one of my favorites was Medusa, with her “snake” hair.

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And there was also a chupacabra, with some flying chickens. Almost like my chupacabra.

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I think pumpkins have found their way into our hearts due because they are all the same thing, but they all look different, which makes me believe they have feelings. Their own personality. Kind of like this pumpkin that I love and adore.

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We picked out a couple pumpkins for my ma’s house, but we weren’t sure if a pumpkin would make it through airport security. So we’ll have to find a sincere pumpkin patch in Austin to visit. More pumpkins. Oh darn.