Happy Halloween/Samhain

[lydamorehouse]

Yesterday was extremely busy around the Morehouse/Rounds household. We had a lot to do to finish getting ready for Halloween. I baked several batches of Halloween-themed sugar cookies, and Mason helped me decorate them (which means we have some very INTERESTINGLY colored bats and ghosties.) Then, we carved pumpkins. We got four this year, and they were all HUGE. Mason designed all the faces, though I did most of the dirty work of cleaning and cutting. Hopefully, I'll be able to get a few good pictures tonight. They're all pretty scary. Some years we have one cute one, but not this year!

The last thing on our pre-Halloween agenda (different, I should say, from our gay agenda,) was to finish decorating the front porch. We have lights! And cobwebs! And a mummified monster in the corner rocking chair. The only thing I have left to do is run an extention cord to the front from the back of the house so we can light up our eyeball lights that lead up the front steps.

Should be pretty awesome.

Mason, this year, is going as... a monster. This seems to happen to him every year. He starts the year off with grand plans to be a rancor from Star Wars or some complicated character from Pokemon, but, while shopping, he inevitably comes across some mask or other that he adores and begs us to buy it for him. This year, it's a kind of devil monster. The nice things about his costuming choice is that we can adjust according to weather. If it's chilly tonight, we'll get him bundled up first and put the black robe and cape over his jacket. The mask acts as a bonus hat.

Viola, ready for Halloween in Minnesota.

We will probably hit whatever houses in the neighborhood have lights on (last year that was almost none, which explains our lack of traffic, despite the welcoming lights and decorations,) After that, we'll head over to Sargent Avenue in St. Paul to do our serious trick-or-treating. If you've never been (and, are, of course, local to the Twin Cities area,) you should check out Sargent Avenue on Halloween. One block east of Cretin on Sargent, they close off the street and have a full-on Halloween bash, complete with Morris dancers. Almost every house on either side of the block participates, and the decorations are AMAZING.

Mason and I got our pictures taken in 2007 by the Star Tribune. Mason was wrapped up as a mummy, 4 years old, and utterly precious. (I just went looking to see if the article/picture was still available in the archives, and it is, but you have to get a subscription to Highbeam, which it won't let me do without parting with my credit card information... so, alas, I can't repost here.)

So... what are your plans?

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