Aspects of Halloween

Happy almost Halloween! Fiorella loves decorating for holidays--any and every holiday--but Halloween is especially dear to her heart because it's so easy. All she has to do is pull a ream of orange paper out of her art closet, grab her fingernail scissors, and start cutting out pumpkins. (The bats, of course, require black cardstock and stronger scissors.)
       Not that Fio has anything to add to last year's display. She'll make a few more pumpkins for the upstairs windows and rethink the bat-spread across the downstairs windows, although it was pretty well perfect last year. Ah--last year, 2018--when she had no idea that she would be a widow within six months.
      Aside from the decorating, Fiorella isn't sure how she'll observe the usually merry holiday. It will seem odd not to be buying out the stores for Halloween candy, but, Fio isn't enthusiastic about sitting in her car at the top of her driveway alone on a dark night, waiting for the flatbed carrying the neighborhood children down the set route to collect their goodies.
      She's also thinking twice about putting out a pumpkin this year. She was usually the one who carved it into a jack-o'-lantern and set it on display by the mailbox, but Husband was the one who knew how to activate those lights that brought Jack to life.
       But time marches on, and by Halloween next year, Fio plans to be be living with Younger Son and his family in their new house, and maybe Fio can revive the joy of Halloween by taking Granddaughter, who will be three by then, around the neighborhood trick-or-treating.