Laura That's so cool that you and your DH used to bake all those cookies together! Hubby would help if I asked but I pretty much did it all alone. I started in September and filled the freezer. I so enjoyed doing it, although I would start to stress myself out by the end. At first I would mail boxes to friends and family but it just got too expensive so I just took stuff to work and family/friend get togethers and we ate the rest from the freezer. Now that I'm not working I have nowhere to take that many goodies, we certainly don't need it all, and it's just gotten so darn expensive! Hubby asked me not to bake bc he can't stop eating whatever I make, but baking is a huge stress reliever for me so I'm trying to find healthier recipes, possibly even ones he doesn't much care for like the bird seed energy bars I made, bc I just have to bake. How cool about your parents' neighbors! I would love to be called the Halloween House! I don't have any animatronics and just started adding spotlights last year. I would love to have fog and more lights. Glad your training sessions went well!
Paula Hubby doesn't care about holidays so it's all me unless I ask for help. I have so much stuff I pretty much spend all of September putting things up. The village takes a few days and the rest kind of just happens as my obsessed brain thinks of more things. I was so excited to finally find a Grim Reaper robe at the thrift store last year to put on one of my skeletons. This year I would love to have a scarecrow. I also kind of want a clown peeking out btwn the house and lilac bush. Hubby just rolls his eyes.
I need to get outside this month or next and spray paint my Halloween tree black. Would you mind sharing your peanut butter fudge recipe, please? I love making fudge and I have a good pb recipe but it involves beating the mixture for either 5 or 10 minutes by hand. Ugh! One year I took 14 different kinds of fudge to work. The last year I was working we played w.t.f.--What's the fudge? Haha! It was my brother's idea. Each day I took in a new kind and coworkers made guesses as to the flavor. It was fun! That fest we went to last wknd was about 2 hours away. The MN one is a little over an hour for us. But we have also gone to several other WI ones, the Nebraska one, Des Moines, South Dakota, this year we went to the CO one and I have been to the AZ one. We love it! That's awesome that your new rose tree reminds you of your sister. I hardly go anywhere and am not a purse person in the traditional sense. My "purse" is a small tactical backpack that goes cross-body.
When I fasten the strap there is not much weight on my shoulder despite having it pretty full.
Anita Yep, always a bellydancer! Well, okay, I do have a corset that I wear sometimes, mostly if it's actually cool. (I have also used it as part of Halloween costumes too!) I slather the sunscreen on, believe me! I am ghostly white and burn easily. I just never seem to get enough on the, umm, more squishy parts of my back, shall we say (I refuse to call them lovehandles!).
Either that or it wears off from sweating. Yep, we're already planning on going opening wknd to Shakopee. So excited! We didn't get any of the wind you guys got. I'm not even sure how much rain we got. Hubby said he hear thunder during the night but I sleep like the dead and never heard it.