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HumToTable

Halloween has become a bit of a melancholy holiday for me. I do miss Halloween of old. But no chance trick or treaters will head down our dark road. We're empty nesters with no grandkids so no kids around to take trick or treating. It's ok though. I prefer the "veil between the worlds is thin" Samhain stuff to what Halloween has become. Not normally a fan of co-opting other cultures, but I do prefer it to be more of a Day of the Dead kind of observance. So, thinking about dearly departed loved ones and pets today.
I mostly miss carving pumpkins. These are pics from when we lived in the Bay Area. The last pumpkins I carved.

Three carved pumpkins sit on a brick front step. One pumpkin is carved into a cat face, one has a cute face with the dried pumpkin leaves still attached to its stem, and the third and largest pumpkin has a dent in the side and is carved into a scary face.
Same pumpkins as described in the first picture, only this picture just shows them in the dark lit up. All you see is the candle glow from the carved face shapes.
Same pumpkins as described in the first picture, only this picture just shows them in the dark lit up. All you see is the candle glow from the carved face shapes.
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And in that spirit of remembered those that have passed on Samhain, here's a pic of our Cairn Terrier who passed in 2022 and our first pug who passed in 2017. Great dogs. Miss them a lot.

Two small dogs sit looking up while on the seats of a boat which is on the water. On the left is a shaggy, gray Cairn Terrier. On the right is a fawn Pug dog.
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OK last post for today. Of course I have to post a link for Siouxsie and the Banshees' song Halloween. I kinda wanted to post a link for Spellbound which is from the same album and the song I like better. But in the final analysis, decided to go with the old chestnut.
youtube.com/watch?v=hIHUzBFlcW

Screenshot of the album cover for Siouxsie and the Banshees' album Juju. The cover art is a statue face surrounded by a collage of musical notes on a black background.
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I lied. *This* will be my last post. Had to toot this pic of my daughter's Totoro costume she wore to work today and her text with her take on her Halloween costumes. I love her so much. ❤️


My daughter in a gray sweatshirt that she adorned with felt to look like Totoro from the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro.
Screen grab of a text from my daughter that says: He's great! And since I was Paddington last year and Kermit the year before, l've decided my costume niche is "kind critters"
Nov 01, 2024, 02:07 AM·Public·Metatext
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