Our very good friends are first time grandparents with the birth of twins last Monday. Nolan and Alexa are the pride and joy of a large extended family. I've been working on crocheting these two baby blankets for a few weeks. Today, I'll mail them to the new parents, with love.

Last night, as I was involved with giving out the candy, I remembered one Halloween when I got to go trick or treating with my neighbor Garry. The two of us were young, and after we'd gone to the homes on our street, Garry wanted to keep going. We trick or treated for blocks and both got a lot of candy. After a while, I was lost. I don't really know if Garry was too. But at one house, a lady answered, and it was my Aunt Winifred. Suddenly, I knew just where I was. She was quite surprised to see me, had us come in and phoned my mother. Mom drove over to get us and I can still remember being so happy we didn't have to walk home!

We've got big puddles outside. It's been raining steadily through the night and half the morning. We needed the rain, but it's really accumulating. I have all the shades up as I'm feeling sunlight deprived! Perhaps it'll be drier in Arizona for the game with the Panthers. If not, they'd better wear the black uniforms instead of the white ones!

It may be Halloween, but we're going to be turning off the porch light at kickoff time for the Oklahoma State and Texas game. Good luck to the Cowboys!