The above plant is called the Dog Bur Bush...also called Beggars Lice, Glovewort, Sheeplice or Woolmat. Avoid this plant if you have animals. This time of year they are brown and all the brumbles lie over on the ground.
We have been busy today preparing for our Trick or Treating adventure tonight. I will be sure and post final costumes tomorrow. No jack-o-lanterns this year. We went to take the dogs for a riverwalk yesterday and then on to the pumpkin farm, but we had a dog emergency and had to come home. Elwood got into a bur bush, REAL BAD. They embedded into his beard, all up into his fur around his nose, his eyes, his ears and his front legs. I have never seen burs this bad on a dog. He was crying so hard. We had to zoom home and spent several hours with Elwood on the kitchen table cutting burs out. Our hands were stinging so bad from all the thorns, his poor skin was so inflammed. Those darn things caught in that hair of his like crazy. I cried I felt so bad for him. So....needless to say. No pumpkins.
We read a great scary story and then just hung out talking about things that scare us. Musa made up a great Halloween story about a bloody woman with 5 gunshot wounds. (the whole gun and gunshot thing runs in the family, doesn't it Carla)
Retta has been in a engineering phase. Has been giving the legos a real workout. I sat them out to get ready to sell on eBay as Musa doesn't use them much anymore and Retta took over. She has been in a building frenzy. Dance is also very big in her world right now, she puts on several shows a day.
Musa and I have been playing lots of Skip-bo. He is REALLY good. I just keep losing.
We are off to Trick or Treat....
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