Halloween 09

I’ve been neglecting the blog of late because I’m pouring all available nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, and adverbs into the novel I’m writing for NaNoWriMo. As of today the novel is 21,666 words and I need to get to 50,000 by the end of November.

These words you see here? Renegades. They’re slipping through the cracks because I’m tired. I have 21,666 reasons to be tired and the alarm is already set for too-early-in-the-morning for tomorrow. So I’ll finish this blog post with some pictures of our most excellent Halloween and return to dreaming up ways for my main character to look up words in the dictionary more often.

Bats

Pink Bat

Pumpkin Patch:

Shrunken Apple Heads:

I so wish this had worked. I peeled apples, soaked them in lemon juice, Sam and I carved faces into them and stuck them with clove eyes and bean noses and rice teeth. Then we waited two weeks while they stubbornly refused to dry and shrink. We ended up with some scary heads, all right– moldy, oozy, black and blue. I’ll let you imagine what that looked like.

Pig:

Here’s Wilbur the pig post trick-or-treat. We made the nose from a bit of egg carton and used a headband and felt for the ears. Sam insisted that I go as Charlotte and her father as Templeton, but I ran out of steam to do real costumes for those, so we made masks.

Rat:

And here’s Templeton! Don’t ask him to fetch you any words from the dump, though. That makes him grouchy.