Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
Well, if anyone remembers... or cares... the bats have returned this year, and are patrolling my yard. I can hear their little sonar pings. I think they are roosting in my palm trees, getting ready for Halloween.

And looking at the last post, I also bought a couple sets of shelves over the weekend, and I have been reorganizing my little studio/workshop for an upcoming project; there wasn't enough room.
Somehow I don't see Halloween and palm trees going together. What you need for a good Halloween experience is a coldish dark and windy night with the maple trees half stripped of leaves, and with the fallen leaves swirling around in a noisy and scary manner suggestive of spooks and spirits. Throw in a dime store mask that induces a greater or lesser degree of tunnel vision and that is the real Canadian item anyway.

Of course nowadays, thanks to the ill considered change to daylight saving time that the US legislature made a few years back, it's still light out an hour later and the youngest kids are spared the trauma of going around in such an atmosphere.