Today's post has a weird intro

Thirty-four years ago tonight my mother was bathing two-year-old me, and my daddy was preparing to watch the third game of the World Series.  If you're baseball fans or disaster buffs then y'all can probably see where this is going.  Mama heard Daddy go "Awww, man," as the feed from San Francisco cut out, followed immediately by "Oh, they've had an earthquake!"  I don't remember any of that, but I do remember what Mama and Daddy told me.  LOL, hopefully today we won't have any shakers; living on the New Madrid fault makes that a real possibility, but hopefully we won't.  My bow today does not pertain to earthquakes or to baseball, but rather (once again) to Halloween.
Y'all know how I'm always talking about the Wrong Box?  Well, this one came in the Right Box.  Mama ordered one with a Thanksgiving theme, one with a lemon theme, and this one, but she got a huge box with a ton of stuff for another little kid.  That particular shop, AdoraBowsStore, is no longer open, and part of me wonders if the snafu with my bows didn't have something to do with that.  If so, I hate that, because that shop's bows were/are awesome.  Not too big, not to small, with cute themes and lots of colors.  

Hmmm...I've already discussed my father's penchant for cutting jack o'lanterns every Halloween, so I'm not sure what else to say.  I do know that I'm not yet seeing a lot of jack o'lanterns oot and aboot, though that's not terribly surprising.  If one cuts their pumpkin too far in advance it'll rot before Halloween comes (especially if the weather is warm), and that's a drag.  But then again, rotten jack o'lanterns look kinda creepy, and that's perfect for Halloween!  But Daddy always waited until a couple'a days before to cut his, and in the night he'd drape wet towels over 'em to keep 'em fresh longer.

Hugs and pumpkins,
RagingMoon1987

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