Apparently, everyone in my neighborhood is more than ready for Halloween this year. The last day of September out walking with the dogs, I saw a few pumpkins and such popping up, but when the calendar flipped over to October, it’s like someone flipped a switch, and we have skeletons and lights and pumpkins all over!
It’s fun, truly. We always used to be the first on our bloc̃k to decorate, and now we’re behind the curve already just four days in. But I do know what our theme is this year, and it involves a lot of crafty stuff (because I’m pretty sick of spending money and just don’t feel like buying more stuff), so we’ll be getting started on that soon.
Tomorrow, Ace Hardware has a “bucket sale” going where everything you can fit in one of their 5 gallon buckets is 20 percent off, and I need a lot of black duct tape and spray paint, so, that will definitely happen. I may try to get some lights up this weekend too – just depends on how much time I have.
Once upon a time, I had a blog for our “Scaryview Cemetery”. It was on blogger and I just sort of abandoned it after 2013, posting our annual pictures on Instagram & Facebook instead. But it’s been sitting there all this time, and last weekend, I finally bought the “real” domain for it, and after far too much annoying issues to deal with, I moved it to my own web host.
So if you want to check out our past projects, or follow along as I build props (probably clumsily) for this year, head over to https://scaryviewcemetery.com. If I have time, I’ll post some past pics there too, and try to post weekly as our cemetery comes back to life this year.
As for the writing and newsletter…well. Life has gotten in the way again, as it tends to do. It is very difficult some days to be creative and motivated after a work day requiring a lot of intense focus, and I tend to overestimate my own energy. But, I’m not giving up. I’ll find my flow even around the day job…eventually.
That’s all for this week! Until next time,
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