For days leading up to the big one, weather forecasters had been predicting a miserable Halloween. They were right about the snow and the wind, but Halloween 2019 turned out to be anything but miserable in our little corner of the tundra. In fact, I think the costumes and the little people who wore them [...]
The Great Pumpkin landed on our front porch last week and we are thrilled. Grown and carved by a young friend of mine and his talented grandpa, the pumpkin weighed a healthy 180 pounds in its prime. It lost 60 pounds in preparation for the holiday season (due to gastric surgery that relieved him of [...]
In Halloween's wake I am digesting tiny Twix candy bars, tidying a kitchen sticky with guts from a hastily carved pumpkin and feeling grateful for life's sweetest moments. A steady wave of Trick or Treaters made their way to our door Wednesday night and they were all -- unicorns, dinosaurs, super heroes and villains -- [...]
I love today. I look forward to it every year and so does most of my neighborhood. Our trees roll out their red and gold carpet, our black birds pretend they're ravens, our squirrels chatter with excitement and our raccoons lay low. Our pumpkins become Jack O'Lanterns and grin or glower, depending on their artists' [...]
Halloween blew briskly down our street this year and threatened to send our little trick-or-treaters home early. But, we're made of sterner stuff here in Wisconsin and we love our holidays, our chocolate and our friends. The Erb Park neighborhood did not disappoint last night. Wobbly toddlers in fuzzy costumes, cheerful chaperones, happy bands of [...]