Devilish

Wishing everybody a happy [and safe] Devil’s Night. It’s almost time for my favorite holiday: “Fall back” for Daylight Saving Time! Woo hoo! An extra hour of sleep. I don’t think it gets any better than that.

Tonight I was going to set out the jack-o-lantern Iain and I carved for Halloween, but the damned squirrels got to it first. They chewed all around the delicate carving, and then wangled the top off, and then chewed up all around the inside, and then one of them must have cut himself, because he bled all over the inside of the pumpkin, and then because it’s been so rainy mold grew all over the pumpkin, and the whole thing was so mangled and deformed and disgusting we had to toss it in the compost heap. It wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t done the same thing to our three other, uncarved pumpkins, but they did.

Have to say, Maryland squirrels are real thugs. Back home they never would have dreamed off gnawing and then bleeding on our jack-o-lanterns.

October 30, 2004 | Filed Under blather