The Pandemic Road continues while another Halloween has come and gone. For several reasons, this was a very laid back Halloween for me this year. I was even having some work done outside my home, so all the decorations I had put up had to come down and get set up inside. It made for a nice Haunted House feel in the place, but didn’t do much to brighten up the neighborhood.
I was glad to see how many people did decorate this year and many of them went all out. There were a lot of skeletons in all of the different neighborhoods I visited. That made me happy. I also saw a lot of pumpkins. If you had steps outside your home, then it was imperative that you developed a cascade of pumpkins all the way down no matter how many steps were involved. At one point I had heard about a shortage of pumpkins because of supply chain glitches, but could not prove that by what I observed.
The worst problem with this Halloween? I ordered two witches hands last August. That’s right, August. I tried to buy them in a store, but they were never in stock. I went to Amazon where you can order anything and get it in 24 hours. I found the hands. I ordered the hands. I still don’t have the hands. The supply chain glitch again. Apparently the hands are stuck in some freighter off the coast of some port somewhere waiting to be unloaded and shipped to me. Did I mention that I ordered them in August? I promise to keep you posted on the progress.
Now it is time to move on to the next round of festivities. You may think I am talking about things like Thanksgiving and the holiday for that jolly fat man. You know the guy who keeps butting into my Halloween celebrations?
Not me. My next celebration lasts for the whole month of November and is called Nanowrimo! My good friend and sister RoadBroad, Fern, wrote about this last week. The goal is to write 50,000 words before midnight on November 30th. I’m starting off a little slow, but I am on my way.
In addition to working on a novel about ghosts, grim reapers and such, I have three different literary events which require me to write essays. One Literary Reading is with the Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WiVLA) on the 16th, the second reading is with the Archway Gallery monthly Reading on November 18th. Then the third reading will be a combined effort between WiVLA, the Houston Writers Guild and Brazos Bookstore that is called Spooky Christmas on December 7th.
Again, I’ll keep you posted on all the exciting details as they come up.
Until next time.….