T'was the day before Halloween...

And we did our usual simple decorating, as in an almost antique cardboard skeleton purchased years ago at a now defunct dimestore, the local Fuji Five and Dime, where you could actually buy things for nickels and dimes; Mr. Bonyparts gets installed in the front store door, behind the blinds. I also have an ancient dead rhodedendron skeleton bush which has long been hung with fake cobwebs, paper bats and miniature lights. It gets put out on the front porch. I used to carve jack-o-lanterns, but lately have been buying small white pumpkins and drawing faces on them, or making masks for them. This year I got a large weird "Sweet Meat" squash, which is supposed to be good eating, so I added a front end and used it as the abdomen of a big spider. It's sitting beneath the Halloween Tree, looking danged good for such a simple approach. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so we may have to find ways of offloading extra treats in case the Halloweeners don't arrive. The climbing gym usually gets a lot of donations this time of year.