The day dawned cold. Winter coat and scarf cold. It was so windy Friday night that we lost power from roughly 8:30pm till about 5:00am Saturday morning. It was a happy moment when I woke up and saw the numbers on my digital clock flashing. I love electricity. A girl's gotta blow dry her hair, after all.
These pictures illustrate one of the things I love best about autumn. No matter how frigid the temperatures, how cloudy the skies, or how much rain falls, the trees around our home make an amazing landscape.
These cute little pumpkins were destined to become our dinner later in the day. It was my first time making my own pumpkin puree. The main benefit it had over the canned stuff was that we got to toast the seeds. The puree became pumpkin tortilla soup. Delicious.
It's not Halloween at the Whites' without some of our favorite guilty-pleasure snacks. Pizza rolls top the list, followed closely by Matt's beloved bacon/water chestnut appetizers.
And Halloween is all about movies. We're not into horror movies in general--I like to sleep at night, and I'm already plenty afraid of the dark as it is. So we've generally stuck with scary "classics", which tend to be a little less insomnia-inducing. Lots of Hitchcock. The Shining a couple of years ago (though that one did keep me up for a night or two ... couldn't get "Redrum! Redrum!" out of my head ...). This year we went with Carrie. I'd never seen it. Loved it, especially once I got past the weirdness of hearing the characters say
"Carrie White" every 30 seconds.
YAY!!!! You're a blogger now!!!!!!!! I'm, sniff-sniff, so proud, sniff-sniff, of you Carrie White, sniff-sniff!!
ReplyDeleteActually...that post was from ME...VANESSA!
ReplyDeleteCute blog! The fall pics look great. Vanessa DID NOT tell me about your blog. I promise she did not forward the blog address to me, either.
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