Hey ya’ll. Happy Halloween!

It snowed here last night. Not a whole lot — just a skiff — but enough to turn things white. I hate the cold, but I love the snow. In a perfect world, it would snow in the summer. ;) I thought it only right to create a design in honor of our first snowfall. I made the graphic from a painting entitled “Winter Dreams” by Josephine Wall. I just love her work!

There’s a kind of superstitious saying around here that says we will have as many snows as the number of the date when the first snow falls. Did that make sense? LOL So that means we’re going have 30 snows this winter. I guess we’ll see if the saying holds true. ;)

I must admit, after doing the Halloween trick-or-treat thing with my kids for the last 24 years, I am positively thrilled that this year is our first year “off”. ;) No more walking out in the bitter cold or driving all over the city to family members’ houses. Ahhhh … feels great! ;) My daughter and a group of her friends will be trick-or-treating in our neighborhood and that’s it. She’s fine with that, especially since it’s so darn cold out! I think it’s a rule that it must be horribly cold here for Halloween. I can’t even remember the last time it was even kind of warm on Halloween. Right now (10:30am) it is 25 degrees(F) — just imagine how cold it will be tonight!

I have some kind of cold-sore throat-congested-sneezing-coughing-runny nose-headachey thing going on. Basically, I feel like caca. I took NyQuil last night and that didn’t even help. I just hope I didn’t give anything to my Mom yesterday when I was with her. I didn’t realize I was getting sick until later in the day after I had returned home. Riley isn’t feeling very well today, either. He threw up this morning. Poor little guy.

My son David called last night asking for my chili recipe. He said he wanted to make it and surprise his girlfriend when she got home from her night lab at school. Isn’t that sweet? And Dave doesn’t cook, so I thought that was really cool! I must’ve taught him something about being thoughtful and romantic after all, eh?

Well, I’m going to go get yet another throat lozenge and get ready to go pick up my daughter (she only has a 1/2 day of school today). I’ll be glad when I get home and can stay in. Ya’ll have a GREAT day and a very HAPPY and SPOOKY Halloween!!!