Trick or Treat!

My daughter's costumes that she wore today.

My daughter wore the cat costume to school. But when she got to school to her horror she noticed no one else was wearing a costume!


So she begged her Dad, "Please take me home so I can change, because I don't want to look weird!"

Then after I picked my daughter up at school she said only one girl wore a costume to school, and that girl said that she felt real uncomfortable too.

When headed home we noticed one of the house's down and around the corner from ours was selling pumkins, for one and two dollars. Well, heck! We had to get a couple of pumkins!

So my daughter and I picked out two medium sized ones, and he only chaged us for one. Last day of the great pumkin sell I guess? When we got home we carved them right away. Then when we finished we put candles in them, to light as soon as it was dark. I always carve the same old dorky scary face, that I have been carving into pumkins since I was in high school. My daughter did a kinda cool three faces thing. Each side had a different face or carving. Real interesting.

Then My daughter got into her trick or treating costume the Angel one, and off we went. I took her to 'the interactive haunted house' thing they were suppose to do today, and it was 5:30 and no one was there! Shoot! So we left to go trick or treating.

I would have liked to say this being my daughter's last year of trick or treating, that we had a blast, but. . . I can't. We went to an unfamiliar area, there are lots of new housing in Madera thse days, and we got lost in a cull-de-sack!

My daughter had desided she had enough candy and our feet hurt, so we started heading for the car. Then we couldn't find the car! We kept looking and looking, and went in the wrong direction!

Then I had this uncomfortable surreal feeling that the side walk was a tread mill, and the costumed kids and parents were revolving with the scenery. And we're passing by the same ones over and over again, and this part of the cull-de-sack would just go on forever! Yikes! Let me off this crazy thing!

Then we turned a corner and saw it! My car! What a beautiful sight!

I used my Magic button and clicked open the door lock, then I slid behind the wheel with a sigh!

My car seat never felt so good to my tired 44 year old butt!

Then my daughter said, "the heck with the 'haunted house' let's just go home!"

Sigh, my daughter is certainly growing-up!

Lady Jan says Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everybody!

photo by Janice

This is a photo of my front gate.

Have a happy and safe Halloween!

Remember to check those treats!

As I will after I take my daughter trick or treating tomorrow night.

My daughter will be a black cat at school, and then an Angel for Halloween night.She'll finally wear those wings I bought her last year.

And don't forget to fall back!

Lady Jan's Ghost picture!

I took this picture on Thanksgiving three years ago. My husband was preparing to carve the turkey that I had cooked. Then I asked him why he looked so scared as I snapped the second photo and he said "(he) didn't know."

Then when I had the film developed I thought "Oh my goodness! why! He looks like he inhaled a ghost!"

Lady Jan's Husband has a birthday today!

My husband David is now 47 years old as of today. My husband is one of those people that has to buy his own presents, well. . . because no one knows what he wants as well as he himself does I guess. So he bought himself a coverall for work, one of those quilted ones that you can work in the snown in and not get cold. Even though it is only 45 degrees at night here, but he works at night and he gets really cold. And he doesn't do the cold very well, as he's kinda thin skinned. The only thing was--the coverall was 140 dollars! Yikes!

My daughter and I gave him home-made birthday cards, then we took him to IHOP for his birthday because that's where he said he wanted to go. And his steak was a little greasey but the rest of the meal was fine, and so was my salad. But my daughter had a turkey sandwich, and she said it was dry--no manaise or anything and it made her mouth sore because of the dryness of it. The waitess said she take it off, but the bill was over thirty dollars for just the three of us, and here I thought if she took my daughter's meal off why was it still so high?

Then we rented some movies, and my husband was only able to see one of them before the Sand man hit him hard in each eye, and he had to go back to sleep before his work shift begain.

He said he had a nice day for his birthday. I hope so, as it seemed a little dull to me!

Lady Jan's exploration of her name on the internet!

I have search my name and I have googled my name. I have found out that I can't write under my married name because there is already a lady using that name! So I'll probably use my maiden name for my writer name. Which isn't too bad as it is an interesting name Seagraves, so if you see a Janice Seagraves has a story out there read it as it maybe me!

The following postings are some of the Lady Jan's or Janice's or lady Janice that I have found on my search through the internet. Each one has it's own posting, and it's own link so you can check each one out if you like.