Playing catch-up

I figure it's time to move a few images of the last few weeks from my hard drive to here.

This is how the house looked for Fantasy Fest -- with rainbows of beads on both sides of the porch this year, and of course the campaign banner.

Some poor soul ripped it off late one night, but I had a replacement within hours. It was the talk of Citizens' Voice in the paper: Obama signs disappearing all across town.

But far more often, we'd get a wave, a honk or a thumbs-up. One great guy from New Mexico who was staying around the corner talked politics across the gate for maybe an hour one evening, and the next day we invited him and two friends over for drinks. When they left, at the end of the Fest, they brought over their leftover rum and wine.

We kept a big bag of leftover beads (aside from the trunk of our own accumulations over the years, sorted for the proper costume correlations) ready to toss from the porch. It's a great time.