100 Pumpkins
Hello there! Let’s kick off the final 100 days of the year with some fall fun. First up…. The Cool Bloggers Postcard Club is officially underway. This arrived from Birchie and Kyria. from their meetup in Buffalo! Soooo fun. I need to start sending out some postcards of my own. As we all know, Sunday was the first official day of fall. I wanted to kick my fall celebrating up a notch, but couldn’t think what to do. I already have all my fall decor out, including orange lights strung across my bookshelves; I light a fall candle every day, drink my tea from a fall mug each morning, and have made pumpkin pasta, oatmeal, waffles and pancakes. Hmm. My sister agreed that it was hard to top all that, and suggested that I get 100 pumpkins and put them in my front yard. Ha ha, that’s a GREAT idea! My husband would just love that, especially when they all start to rot in the hot sun. Obviously she was joking, but I can’t get the idea out of my mind. I texted my sister yesterday: Every time I drive up to my house, I imagine 100 pumpkins in my front yard. I can just picture how it would look, and what the neighbors would be saying. I wonder if our HSA has regulations against such a thing? Well, it’s s nice fantasy. As much as I love pumpkin season, I’m starting to get excited about Halloween! I follow a strict decorating schedule: September 1st- fall decor comes out. October 1st- most of the fall decor is replaced by Halloween decs. November 1st- Halloween things are sadly put away, and fall decor comes back with the addition of some specific Thanksgiving items. I LOVE looking at the Halloween decorations in the stores, but I also have a rule for that: I’m only allowed to CONSIDER buying something if it has a black cat on it. I definitely don’t need any more Halloween stuff, but I do have a black cat theme going on, so if I see something with a black cat, I’m allowed to- possibly- buy it. However, Suzanne recently had a super fun post all about ghost decorations she’s considering. They’re so cute! Maybe I need some ghosts for my front yard? I think I do! (Maybe I need 100 of them- just kidding.) Wednesday is my day off, and I’m planning a trip to Hobby Lobby and Michael’s. Hobby Lobby isn’t a store I shop at often, but I usually go at this time of year, because they REALLY know how to do fall and Christmas. Unfortunately they don’t carry any Halloween items, so I’ll head to Michaels for that. I’m looking forward to a fun “browsing spree”- I’ll probably buy a couple things, but will mostly just enjoy looking at everything. Do you enjoy browsing in stores? – I love it! That was probably the thing I missed most during Covid. Do you put up Halloween decorations? Any specific plans for the last 100 days of the year?