Halloween Frenzy.

 Armed with cardboard bats and and paper pumpkins, Fiorella has been running back and forth around her area of the house like a madwoman today. So far, she's decorated the front wall leading to her room with a small bevy of bats and made a chain out of black paper to hang across both sides of the xxx door. Also, that small, uncut pumpkin she mentioned yesterday is now situated against the front hall and it will soon be joined with about four other pumpkins the same size and line up. To top it off, Daughter-in-Law has lit up a small section of the outside of the house so we have some light shows at night.

What's next, you say? Obviously, the costumes--and Fio can hardly wait! Hmm...wonder if any of them are home made, like the prize costume Fiorella put together for herself when she was in elementary school. Your girl has mentioned it before, but it's worth repeating: a gypsy skirt, a pair of bedroom slippers with their cotton-edged sides pushed up, a Brownie cap, and her treasured baton. (which must have weighed a ton).

It suddenly dawned on your girl that she herself must have a penchant for homemade Halloween costumes--re, the old photo secured to her bedroom wall this very moment of a UT freshman Fiorella standing in the middle of the hall with her roommate, who was dressed in her slick, slick, swimsuit, while Fio stuck with a put-together costume that was supposed to be somebody from a book she had just read.

It's time to put the photo back in place. Sleep well!