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11/7/2021

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Books By Patti Liszkay
​Available On Amazon

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​"Equal and Opposite Reactions" http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
and the sequel, "Hail Mary" https://www.amzn.com/1684334888
​Available on Amazon.


​​HALLOWEEN TREATS

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 ...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,        
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...and skeletons of various sizes, 
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...and species,
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...and involved in various occupations.
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     There was also an assortment of ghosts and ghouls,
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...as well as some spine-tingly tomb-stones.
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      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."
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      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:
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      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.
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     Putting on the finishing touches.
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     One night we visited their other grandparents' neighborhood to see the phenomenal light display that had been set up there.
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        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,
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...which offered a view of a cute alleyway.
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     I had the veggie plate, which was terrific,
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...and everyone else declared their meals to be equally yummy.
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     After breakfast we walked along the crowded Hermosa Beach Strand for a bit,
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...where the girls made a friend.
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      We then drove to the Manhattan Beach Strand, where we'd heard that  one of the houses had put up a great Halloween display.
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    After snapping a few shots of the Halloween house I walked along the Strand and out to the Pier to do some more snapping.
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     My favorite house along the Manhattan Beach Strand,
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...though I like this one, too.
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       Then we left the beach and headed for home.
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     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...
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    "Hail Mary"
    by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    https://www.amzn.com/1684334888

    Picture
    "Equal And Opposite Reactions"
     by Patti Liszkay
    Buy it on Amazon:

    http://amzn.to/2xvcgRa
    or from
    The Book Loft
    of German Village,
    Columbus, Ohio
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    Or check it out at the Columbus Metropolitan Library
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