Halloween, Roo Has Passed, New Kitchen Gadget

Did everyone have a Happy Halloween? We sure did.

Shelby got dressed up as a sorceress...the lady pirate costume didnt work out, couldnt find one in time. But she was beautiful anyway. We had to get going as they were having the Halloween Festival in the square in town earlier this year. We got there and were kind of disappointed. It was VERY crowded and a lot of the shops were not participating or were closed down since last year. Now I realize they want the kids to have fun, but this playing a little game before getting your candy in my opinion is clogging up the works. The line for each place was a mile long...just to play a game, like ring toss for instance...so you can get your candy. We werent there for more than ten or fifteen minutes and ended up leaving. Shelby couldnt even be in a costume contest there this year as they did away with the thirteen to seventeen year old costume contest.

We passed through a church parking lot that always sets up for folks to come through and get candy..so we did that. Then I got this idea. Why not go through the mill village in our town of Aragon? Most know what mill villages are, but I will tell you anyway. The mill has long since closed but it is a community where people that worked at the mill lived. Little square cheaply built houses. Most have really done up the houses there to look really quaint and cute, nice and neat little neighborhood.

You should have seen it. I wish I had had my camera. It brought back memories of when I used to go trick or treating. Everyone giving out their candy had their houses decorated and were sitting on their porch waiting for the kids to come...which were coming in droves...in packs...all up and down the street...it was wonderful! I was afraid that the time of Trick or Treat from door to door was lost...but it was alive and flourishing here in this small town. So we let Shelby out and she was going door to door, trick or treating for real, like we used to. Even the Aragon police, all three of them...lol...were giving out candy to the kids out of their cars...isnt that cool? If I did live in a neighborhood it would be this one...it was just something else to see.

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I have put the young rooster down. It was a merciful blessing for him...he was in agony. It was not as hard to do as I thought. I talked to him, telling him everything was going to be over soon and he would be at peace. When an animal is suffering that bad, you are doing what is right to help them pass on. So that is done and over with.

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I dont know how many of you have alerts for Dwains journal..but he has made two new entries...go and take a look at the pictures of all his wonderful new birds. I told him he inspired me to take better pictures. He has each one on a pedestal stool next to a fern...very artistic of him. I was just going to go out and snap a few shots from the pen of my new ones...now I got to do better than that. ;) Oh, his link is on my sidebar.

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I am just so happy! I finally got my new food slicer after waiting for the company we ordered it from to get it in stock. It took almost four months...I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to get it. I love it! It is really going to save me money to slice my own meat and cheeses for sandwich meat, dinner meats, whatever I want to slice...it will do it perfectly. Here is a picture of it...I am just so happy to have this addition to my gadgets in the kitchen.