QUAKING

For letter Q the word quaking comes to mind, Halloween was a fun time here with our granddaughter and grandnieces and grandnephews.

 Aren't you QUAKING with fear looking those kids? NOT, the mask in the middle actually bled red fluid though!!

From Royals player, frogs, little princesses, Buzz Lightyear, Batman, Stormtrooper and scarry guy we had the neighborhood QUAKING in the boots with smiles.

AND OUR CITY was quaking yesterday with 800,000 KC ROYALS FANS!!!!!

This is the crowd at Union Station. We actually were on the parade route, got there at 9 am for the 12:00 parade so we got from row standing.

Me, daughter and granddaughters ready to shout!

Parade route.

Proud of our fans, out of 800,000 only 3 arrests for disorder and 1 hospital call-a woman went into labor.

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Ann

Pink Ladies

What a fun Halloween party I attended on Friday evening before Halloween.  I had planned on going but was unsure what costume to pick out.

My baby sister (yes, she always reminds me) called and said she was going as Sandy from Grease and her hubby was going as Danny.

Well what else but I pick but Rizzo!!!!

 

BIL wore his jeans rolled up with white socks and loafers. He had a pack of cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve of his T-shirt.

 

I found my black pencil skirt and pink sweater at the thrift store.  I made my black scarf and had just bought these big black sunglasses a few weeks ago.  My hair style is normally very smooth so I spent a few hours in pin curls to get it curly.

 

 

 

Don't you think they are a very cute Danny and Sandy.

 

 

 

Sister wore her jacket she bought at a costume store to work on Halloween.  She works with breast cancer patients and she said they got a kick out of the PINK jacket.

 

 

Hope you had fun at your Halloween events and fun with all the trick-or-treaters.

 

 

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Ann

 

SPOOKY

I'm sharing a spooky post today for Halloween this next week.  The beauty salon that I go to  is in an area that participates in a contest for all the businesses that decorate for Halloween.

This year they took first place!!

She's a hairy scarecrow, notice they put braids in her hair.

 

Also notice the pink butterfly on their building and the stars on the mannequin.

 

 

 

Hope you are enjoying a fun weekend, planning for all the trick-or-treaters.

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Ann

J is for Jack-O-Lantern

Last October I took several pictures of carved Jack-O-Lanterns at my granddaughters school program.

I did some research on Jack-O-Laterns and was surprised by all the tradition and folklore concerning these creative carvings.

How creative is this one!!

OK maybe this is a really bad pumpkin with lots of acne. Or perhaps a gourd.

These two got pretty hungry.

This one is a little fountain that serves fruit punch.

 

From Wickipedia



 

 

TRADITION

 

 

.^[4] It was not until 1837 that jack-o'-lantern appeared as a term for a carved vegetable lantern,^[5] and the carved pumpkin lantern association with Halloween is recorded in 1866.^[6]

In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween.^[7] In 1900, an article on Thanksgiving entertaining recommended a lit jack-o'-lantern as part of the festivities.^[7] The poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who was born in Massachusetts in 1807, wrote "The Pumpkin" (1850):^[8]

“

Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within!

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FOLKLORE

 

A character named Stingy Jack was associated with the Jack-o-lantern in folklore.  He is quite the interesting guy, there is lots of reading on this guy if you are interested.  Hence Jack became connected to the pumpkin carved with candles.

 

I realize that Halloween is 6 weeks away, but I wanted to feature these cute Jack-O-Lanterns.

 

 

 

 

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Ann