If you could see my neighborhood right now, you’d understand why I say Halloween is the best day of the year. Hundred of kids, almost all houses decorated and handing put candy. Amazing.

It continues to be a crazy day with mom stuff but we’re determinedly going ahead with decorating. Nothing stops Halloween in this house! 😄

Well it’s about time to get ready for work after a week off. It’s been one of the best vacations of my life–and we didn’t go anywhere. Somehow, and unintentionally, it was perfectly paced. It felt like more than a week long. I got a lot done while also having plenty of leisure. I’m very thankful.

Anyone else notice that people don’t flash lights at oncoming traffic to warn about a speed trap? (I still do.) Has this practice just been forgotten or is it the result of thin blue line propaganda? I remember when country folks and cops weren’t friendly. Not hostile, but certainly not trusting.

An unexpected effect of the (not so) new job: I’m rarely in Bloomington anymore. It was such a big part of my life for thirty years. Now I’m there less than once a month. So many cool things there, but now I think, “All the way to Bloomington? In that traffic?” 😄

Thirty-one years ago today I had the best and last first date of my life.

Today is Darcy’s first day at a full time job! She’ll be working at a place that does behavior therapy for autistic children.

Now I’m remembering more: many of those who buttoned all the way up also didn’t believe in neckties. They were “adornment” and just as sinful as women’s jewelry.

Random memory: there were a large number of Holiness men who believed men should always wear long sleeves. Within this group there was a sizable contingent who believed in buttoning their shirts all the way to the top. (I remember these latter being mostly Oklahomans.)

Found a covid-era bottle of sanitizer. Read the right side of the label.