Tag: Halloween
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About last night…
So last night was Halloween. As you can tell from previous blogs, this is my favorite night of the year, and my favorite thing to do is scare the ever loving crud out of trick-or-treaters of all ages. We start it with ambiance…the yard was supremely creepy this year! We had dozens of Jack-o-Lanterns, we…
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Happy Halloween!
It’s Halloween! My favorite day of the entire year. I loved Halloween as a kid, but because our parents strictly forbade us from eating candy, we had to donate all our candy to the church food pantry each year. Trick-or-treating was about the activity itself, not about the candy at the end. (Though, I confess,…
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Pumpkin Carving
One of my biggest fans, Gregory Wright, has created this pumpkin carving stencil of me in my pumpkin hat to share with my fans. I used the stencil today and carved a pumpkin that I was about to make pumpkin beer with, and it worked beautifully! Some of the pieces are small and delicate…you definitely…
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!!!OCTOBER!!!
I admit it. I’m an October junkie. I can’t get enough of it. October is the one month of the year when I come ALIVE!!! There’s something about the way the wind changes direction and starts to sound and feel a little uneasy, especially around sunset and at night. Leaves start to change and fall,…
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Fresh Pumpkin Pie (NO cans!)
So everyone’s got a recipe for pumpkin pie, and here’s the best one. (An instructional video for this recipe is located at the bottom.) Of course, the best one involves nothing from a can, which means WORK. I’ll throw you some shortcuts the deeper we get into the recipe, but if you want to make…