One Saturday Afternoon In October...

Listen!

The wind is rising,

and the air is wild with leaves,

We have had our summer evenings,

now for October eves!

~ Humbert Wolfe

Our daughter's school will be going through the accreditation process next week and I am doing the catering for the three day visit. Some breakfast and a bit of lunch, a couple of dinners and a Parent Association Social...sooooo I am a busy gal~ola, to say the least...and loving every minute of it.

I spend a lot of time sorting all of the details of this upcoming event in my head and then I go into high gear. I am also trying to not exhaust myself....I tend to get pretty {hyper} and am filled with creativity in the final hours of large projects and then when it is over...I just collapse....a zombie mom...appropriate for Halloween...but not for the Fam. No way, no how.

So I am trying to pace myself...steady as she goes...goes BOZO...but steadily. So in a rare hour alone in the house today....I did some more Halloween putzing....it calms me and I love it!

I put these little sugar pumpkins on my ivy pots every year...

...then I hang bundles of corn across the windows...

It is my FAVORITE harvest decorating thing~y....

Husk love...

...then I put large pumpkins on the ivy pots that are on the steps...yep, there are pots under there...and note: if you fertilize it...it will grow....

Oh but wait...more pumpkins in the backyard...

I do believe that if I hung this sign out front...folks would stop

and form a line for the hay ride...hey...what the hay?!?

I heart black crows....

I am going to deck out the sun room for Halloween...so here is my start...his name is Poe....don't ya just love it?

I will try to post this week...maybe a bit of the coo~coo~ness will over flow~ith my cup and I let it spill out here for all to see....if not...you know where to find me...I'm the one with my head in the pumpkin bin in front of the stores.

Smiles ~ Ramona