Spooky Stuff

You know it's going to be a golden day when the first thing you hear from one of your kids is, "Mom, (the dog) puked on my floor."

Delightful.

"Fortunately," even though it was before 6 a.m., I was wide awake, as I had 1,000,008 things to do today. 

One of which was load the CR-V to the gills. It honestly looked like we were going camping. In actuality, we were just going to a couple hours' worth of classes and then a harvest party. We had everything from a ladder to duct tape to 36 Ninja Turtle apples to about 5 dozen monster mozzarella fingers, a couple dozen deviled eggs, about 250 prizes, dozens of things needed to set up a carnival game, traffic cones, backpacks, costumes ... I could go on. 

Oh, and we had ghosts, who were traffic cones in a previous lifetime. (They were needed for an obstacle course.) 

We decorated them with stuff we had on hand, in about a half hour. (Sorry the photos are a little blurry, I had the wrong settings on my camera.)

We started off like this, but I decided they looked a little bit too much like they might be headed to a Klan rally.  :0

So, we decided to give them rounded heads. 

Much better. :)

Annabelle gave them some cute faces.

They were pretty cute riding around in the back of our car!

At the carnival, we helped set up and staff a sensory table. We put creepy things in dollar store bins, covered them up and the kids had to guess what they were. We have everything from witches' fingers to a heart, a couple of her pets (a rat and a furry spider) and last but not least, a skull. We scored a plastic skull at the dollar store, and decided to cover it in fruit leather, to mimic skin. It looked even worse than it felt - good thing the kids couldn't see it!

SPACEY SOUNDTRACK: As we were working around the house yesterday, we had a long spacewalk playing in the background. 

Here's a great photo from NASA of Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly emerging from the International Space Station, ready to go spacewalking!

Though Kelly now holds the records for the American astronaut with the most days in space (total, and consecutive), it was Kelly's first spacewalk. (Flight engineer Kjell Lindgren was out there with him.)

The two were out there for 7-hours and 16-minutes. During that time, NASA reports they "applied a thermal cover on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer; applied grease to a number of components in one of the latching ends of the Canadarm2 robotic arm; and began work to rig power and data system cables for the future installation of a docking port to the station that will be used for the arrival of the Boeing Starliner CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft."

Most of the time it was pretty intense, focused work, but Kelly did take a moment to take this fantastic selfie.

         Image Credit: NASA