Halloween Treats

Books By Patti Liszkay
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​​HALLOWEEN TREATS

 ...Continued from yesterday:
       "Grammie, can you come for Rosh Hashanah?" asked my grand daughter, who lives 2200 miles away, during a phone call in early September.
         "When is ​Rosh Hashanah?" I asked.
         "On Monday," she said.
         That was on Saturday, I told her couldn't make it by Monday.
         "Then can you come for Halloween?" she asked.
         I told her I'd for sure come for Halloween.
        And that is how it came to pass that I abandoned my unfinished kitchen remodeling job - alas, still not resolved to this date (See post from 10/16/2021, "The Gremlin In My Countertops") - to visit my loved ones on the West Coast and spend Halloween with my grand daughters.      
         Tom and I had never before spent Halloween with our grand daughters, but we were in for a treat: their neighborhood was definitely Halloween Spook Central. 
         Many of the residents had gone all out creepy-wise; the neighborhood was crawling with giant spiders,        

...and skeletons of various sizes, 

...and species,

...and involved in various occupations.

     There was also an assortment of ghosts and ghouls,

...as well as some spine-tingly tomb-stones.

      There were even a couple of yards that offered more friendly displays, which my eight-year-old grand daughter disdainfully referred to as  "Halloween for babies."

      However, for all the decorations in the yards and on houses, there was only a single Dia de las Muertos - Day of the Dead - skull on display in one yard:

      This was in my grand daughters' front yard and had been made by them from a pumpkin, a jar of white paint, and some cardboard cut-outs I had bought for them for that purpose.

     Putting on the finishing touches.

     One night we visited their other grandparents' neighborhood to see the phenomenal light display that had been set up there.

        On the Saturday morning that was the day before Halloween we went for breakfast and brought along a friend to a popular Hermosa Beach breakfast spot called Martha's,

...which offered a view of a cute alleyway.

     I had the veggie plate, which was terrific,

...and everyone else declared their meals to be equally yummy.

     After breakfast we walked along the crowded Hermosa Beach Strand for a bit,

...where the girls made a friend.

      We then drove to the Manhattan Beach Strand, where we'd heard that  one of the houses had put up a great Halloween display.

    After snapping a few shots of the Halloween house I walked along the Strand and out to the Pier to do some more snapping.

     My favorite house along the Manhattan Beach Strand,

...though I like this one, too.

       Then we left the beach and headed for home.

     But after weeks of enjoying all the local Halloween treats, little did I suspect that I was about to be Halloween tricked.
        To be continued...