Update

Well, I'm sure you've noticed that I haven't been doing much updating here. The house is staying as is for right now. We have a few touches on the front porch for Halloween which you'll see in a below photo, but mostly we've been dealing with a family loss. Matt's Grandfather passed away a few weeks ago and so his family has been packing up the old apt in NJ as well as dealing with all the paperwork, etc.

Matt also recently had ASA eye surgery which is a laser correction but not Lasik. I'm still learning about the differences but mostly there's a longer healing time, more variety of eye drops, the vision is not immediately repaired but takes days to heal. This is where we are now.

So in addition to all that, has anyone noticed all the Holiday decor already in stores????? It's not even Halloween!!! I haven't purchased a thing, but I do have to tell you that the gears are working and I'm happily thinking of all the options we have this year. The one downside, which Matt pointed out, is that without our previous 17ft ceilings, we are limited in the size of our tree. 8ft ceilings means a 7ft tree, which is the smallest tree we've had in...(counting back apts).... 7 yrs? WOW! that would be back to my very first apt, a little basement studio where Matt surprised me with a Charlie Brown style tree. I had thrown out my back and thought I wouldn't be able to get one that year. It still makes me smile!!!!

OK. Enough with Holiday talk. Let's get back to Halloween!



The pumpkin was a gift from Oliver & Melissa when they dropped by earlier this month on their way back to Texas (they came up for a friends wedding in Maine).



My fab Halloween wreath doesn't show up as well on our darker door. I'm seriously wondering about backing it with an orange or white color to bring back the black design.



This is Matt on day 2 - feeling better and up and dressed. We are now on day 3 and he's not so great - doing a LOT of sleeping which should help. We also have a follow-up for tonight.

Stay tuned for our tree clean-up!