Halloween 2023 Day/Night

My entire Halloween was utter magic.

I'll write a personal entry about everything that happened yesterday soon, but for now, here's a video and a bunch of photos :)

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November first lovely drizzly softness

Tyler wants to come over around 4pm, he's been trying to give me more mushrooms, yay! - these are Matsutake and I have too many radishes right now which pair really perfectly with matsus.

Spent all morning cooking and cleaning, it was nice. Made cauliflower pizza again, the sauce is all heirloom garden tomatoes, some grown by cynthia, some natasha, one from a local farm. it's ridiculously delicious. natasha left me fresh oregano from the soup she made for cynthia's birthday so that went in and simmered with rosemary and the tomatoes and the flavor is unbelievably delish.

It's drizzling softly. i need to get outside. I want very much to run but honestly my foot hurts too much. so I think walking to a distant coffee shop would be better. There's one about 1.5 miles away, a 3 mile walk in the drizzle sounds like a perfect Nov 1 activity.

I do want to visit mom's bench later for All Hallows, but we'll see.

Need to do scheduling still, after a second cup of coffee, so I think my walk and latte will be next. have to put clothes on first. I am loathe to wash off my halloween makeup and i'm still in my little devil dress and spiderweb socks. we had so much fun last night, josh was so cute as Alice Cooper.

I'll write more after I get my coffee and my scheduling done, need to clean my desk first, I want to cook an apple/pear pie and persimmon crisp (the persimmons all ripened at once so now there are too many to eat raw, I am not complaining! they are my absolute favorite fruit and i am so grateful for every last one of them. they have potent dna repair properties that i think my body craves (kiwis have this compound too).

I also need to make carrot cake with the bag of carrots I got, and cook up the mushrooms I already have, maybe with some root veggies for soup?

gotta take out the trash on my way, the pumpkin innards are too wet for the bag so it hasta go out.

the crio brew cocoa beverage is making me so happy.

pumpkin spice forever.

I'm not really very sad that Halloween is over - i missed nothing and absorbed every beautiful moment of it to the very possible fullest, this year. I am going to always take two weeks off in October from now on, including the week of Halloween, it's my favorite holiday so I need to treat it like others treat Christmas. It's important. I am more than happy to work through christmas. I love it too but it is not precious to me the way Halloween is.

I don't know why a long walk in the rain sounds so perfect but it seems like exactly what i need right now. Off I go.