Happy Halloween, 2024!

Last Halloween, I was in Ireland, celebrating my niece's Master's Degree and, since it was Ireland, and they pretty much invented it, Halloween. Which I wrote about in Have yourself a merry little Samhain.

In 2022, I strolled around my neighborhood, which puts on a pretty good Halloween for itself, and took a bunch of pics of local decor. 

Beacon Hill usually goes all out, but when I did my initial walk-around/look-see a few weeks ago, there wasn't all that much to look-see. This was the absolute drabbiest drab display, but most of the ones I saw weren't up to par. (Other than the witches' legs, which are back at the Whitney Hotel.) Guess I was way early to check things out. I'll be out later today, and I'm hoping there'll be plenty of good displays to see.

My 2019 post was devoted to Halloween candy - and to St. Francis House - the day shelter where I will be spending the day. And, as has become my custom over the years, I'll have plenty of candy for the guests who come through the Resource Center - folks for whom life has provided a lot more tricks than treats.

Thinking about Halloween candy reminds me that I haven't yet had any candy corn or "harvest cream" pumpkins this year. On my walkabout, I'll have to swing by a CVS and remedy that. Can't have Halloween without the sweet goodness of candy corn.

In 2014, I posted about my first Halloween post-death of my husband. Halloween was Jim's favorite holiday - the only one he enjoyed celebrating. So I had a Snickers and some Good 'n Plenty in his honor.

My first Halloween post, way back in 2007, was on The Halloween Biz. And the biz has only gotten bigger since then.

Anyway, I've always enjoyed Halloween, and I suspect that - even though my stomach's in knots over the election on Tuesday - this year will be no different. 

In case you're wondering, I'm going out as myself. 

Happy Halloween!