Snapshots: Halloween Lead-up

I forgot to show you my pie weights from when I made Poppy's birthday pecan pie. 

Easier than trying to transfer beans in and out.

I subbed a couple of days at school this week. I was there just after they finished taking the year's pictures. We're such a small school, the high schoolers just take all the photos. They set up a nice little photo scene in the media building. I was pleased to see they included several books from my library.

They should have had each of the kids choose their own books for their photos. I would have loved to see what they picked.

The media building also has all the senior class photos from the past twenty years or so. Again, these are very small groups of seniors, so they all get to choose the setting for their photos. I was very amused by the 2012 class of all boys, who were clearly so over school and ready to be gone.

To the point that they didn't bother with any nice poses and smiling, instead just walking away from the camera. 

Over the years, my sister has brought us quite a few little Halloween decorations, which we put up last weekend. My favorites are the lights.

It's hard to see, but these are a small battery-operated string of purple bats.

There's another battery-operated string around the plants at the left above the couch, and then the ones around the window are ghosts.

Friendly ghosts, of course. And they are actually a nice glowy yellow in real life, but the camera makes the light look very white.

Our village had their Halloween celebration last night. This year, they rented a couple of bounce houses.

Appropriately themed.

Poppy and her friend were the first to get to these, and were bouncing by themselves for about twenty minutes before anyone else showed up. It had rained hard the night before, and those decorative skulls and jack-o-lantern faces apparently had water either on top of them or inside of them, because when the girls started bouncing, water started streaming from those onto the ramps below. Which of course made them incredibly slippery.

Since no one else was there, I just told the girls to keep bouncing and they eventually shook all the water out or off. I then dried it off with a towel I keep in my car so it would be safe for other kids to climb in. Public service!

And last, flowers. These might really be the last flowers.

Tired cosmos.

And this week's altar arrangement, which is mostly leaves with the last sunflowers of the year. And this time I think they really are the last ones. (I keep saying that. One of these weeks, it will be true.)

There you have it! My life, snapshotted.