{"id":606,"date":"2008-11-05T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T14:34:38","slug":"halloween-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Halloween recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s historic events it seems silly to go back to Halloween. Even though it was just last Friday it seems like a long time ago. If I don’t, though, I’ll miss a good chance to get in an easy post which would help me meet a goal of 30 posts in November. Even though I haven’t posted every day in the month, if I can get up a number that works out to one post per day on the average, I’ll consider that I paid attention to NaBloPoMo.<\/p>\n

So, last Friday I put on a pair of khaki pants and noticed my paisley western shirt in the drawer. Oops, I thought, if I wear that and blue jeans I’ll be halfway to a cowboy costume. So I changed my pants, added a leather vest and a bandanna and the leather hat I got from the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen years ago, and became Hopalong Dean for the day.<\/p>\n

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We had bought a good big pumpkin, which became a jack-o-lantern after my usual style:<\/p>\n

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We stayed home Halloween evening and had more kids coming by than we remember in several years.<\/p>\n

Here’s Arlene with the pumpkin, in Casco the next day. It was so big that when I cut it up to cook half of it filled up our large pot. One pumpkin pie barely made a dent in the bowlful of pumpkin puree.<\/p>\n

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After yesterday’s historic events it seems silly to go back to Halloween. Even though it was just last Friday it seems like a long time ago. If I don’t, though, I’ll miss a good chance to get in an easy post which would help me meet a goal of 30 posts in November. Even though … <\/p>\n

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