Ode to Fall

I love the Fall. I prefer the cooler weather, love wearing a jacket, the holidays are varied and numerous and the traditional Fall activities are among my favorites. This has been a strange season, though. We've been so busy we haven't had time to do many of the things we usually do.

We didn't go to the Renaissance Festival. We didn't go to a local farm for the Fall festival to get a pumpkin. We didn't make it to a Drive-In movie. We didn't even have time to carve a pumpkin for Halloween! I don't remember the last time we missed pumpkin carving. It may have been the first time since we've had kids.

We did manage to get our annual Haunted Forest up and running. We added a second fog machine and got a big scary skeleton who really scared the crap out of at least one five year old girl. Sadly, it really seems like we're getting fewer and fewer trick or treaters each year despite our increasingly awesome efforts. We may have to bring in a cute cousin to boost our ratings.

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