I haven't posted for a while. It's been a kind of draggy week or two. I've been battling an infected, fractured tooth, and it's kind of worn me down. I finally had the tooth removed last Friday, but I am exhausted, maybe because of the antibiotic I'm taking, maybe because I'm old and healing from the strain. Anyway, enough Hive silence. I thought I'd share a few pictures from Halloween that my daughter took.
The first picture is a 'skeletal' dog--our dog, sitting in front of the house, waiting for goblins to stop by. My daughter gave up on sitting indoors and waiting. She put the candy at the end of the walk and simplified the treat disbursements :)
The sorry looking plant in front of the dog is a basil plant I bought at Home Depot in August. I never got around to planting it, but from time to time my daughter will pass by and help herself to some fresh basil. I think that season has passed now.
Here is a picture of the dog indoors, eyeing the candy bowl before treat dispensing was moved outside.
Last week Old Westbury Garden, a preserved Gold Coast estate, held a dog costume contest. My daughter attended with her skeleton dog. She snapped a shot of some contestants.
Neither my daughter nor her dog competed in the contest, but they did have great fun dressing up. My daughter was a performer for years, so she enjoys putting on a show, any kind of show. This comes naturally to her. Because of this inclination to perform, she absolutely loves Halloween (as do I). True to form this past Halloween, she wore a costume that matched her dog's.
Here is a shot of her 'skeletal' legs.
You can see from the picture that wearing black and walking a white dog has a built in liability: dog hairs.
Here is the dog, in costume, relaxing and enjoying the scenery. He was very excited by all the canine activity around him. My daughter said at one point he seemed exhausted. You can see in this picture he is wearing bat wings on his skeleton costume.
My daughter works in a school. Every Halloween the staff dresses in costumes, and every year the word goes around that there is a theme. All staff are to wear a certain type of costume--it is suggested. Let me assure my readers that my daughter never follows such a suggestion. Halloween is fun. The fun of it is the costumes, the creativity expressed in coming up with a unique costume.
That's true for the dog, too. In addition to the dog's skeleton costume, he has one which requires him to wear a frying pan. He has another that requires him to wear wings. And one that requires him to wear a flowy, white cape (to suggest a ghost).
Don't worry about the dog. He loves hanging around with my daughter. He may wonder at some of the costumes, but he's game, and he has great fun.
This year, as is her custom, she designed her own costume for the school event. When I saw this, I told her she could hire out as a clown at children's birthday parties.
It is a concept costume. I think she said she is supposed to be a hungry clown. That's a slice of beef on her arm, I believe. And her earrings are covered in candy wrappers.
I asked her when she got home from school how the kids responded. They are second graders.
Her answer? They were delighted.
I missed Halloween this year. I was just too tired to participate. But I did decorate a few weeks ago. Those are my black cats you see lining the walkway in the top picture.
Three more days of antibiotic. Then I think I'll snap out of this and get back to real blogging. I'm sure I will.
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