Halloween Memories

                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0thH3qnHTbI      It is Halloween Eve here in Texas and we are getting some much needed rain.  I am having fun listening to loud random thunder claps while crazy, zigzag, lightening bolts Dr. Frankenstein would cheer for illuminate my part of the big Texas sky and give me glimpses of night things not used to being seen in my brushy yard.  Once again my memories transport me back to the 1970's and I dwell for a moment on family preparations for Trick or Treat night and all the fun going door to door with my family and neighboorhood friends.  Our church for a time had a Fall Festival which included bobbing for apples, costume contest and even a haunted house which was an upstairs room with all sorts of fun 'scarey' stations like sticking our hands in spagetthi and calling it goblin guts.   The Haunted House part was later phased out as the church ladies decided 'church' probably was not the place to scare children and rightly so I suppose.   Although I have only good memories and I kinda liked to have a reason to scream cause then a cute church boy might possibly feel compelled to 'save' me and you know...all that silly boy-girl stuff.   I had so much fun last Saturday in my old stomping grounds, Flour Bluff at Barton Street Pub.  I got to see Janis Joplin, John Lennon sing karyoke with a video of the beetles behind him,  a female Beetlejuice that sang a great Time Warp,  the cutest Strawberry Shortcake ever and she even had natural red hair,  and the scariest, so real I hope it truly was a costume, Grim Reaper that stayed in character the entire time.  I steered clear of him just to be on the safe side.  It is now after midnight so Happy Halloween!   I am gonna dance and sing to the Monster Mash right here in my living room.  kisses  

Till We All Get to Heaven

It is Saturday night and the weather is changing here in my small Texas town.  Relief from the Summer heat is blowing in with our first 'norther' of the season.  I am thankful for the change but this last week was full of unwelcome life changes for the employees of our small Texas town, one and only, super friendly, locally owned, and operated,  dry cleaners, where I happen to be currently employed. Monday we learned, Johnny, the super duper fix it man had a horrible car accident and was in critical condition in a San Antonio hospital. Johnny was one of those people that never met a stranger and just had the most open and helpful spirit about him. Wednesday morning the brother of one of our co-workers was tragically hit and killed while crossing a drveway. So sad. Then we found out it had been concluded there was no hope for Johnny's recovery and he was to be taken off life support that day.  So much tragedy and sadness in a few days time. So many lives forever altered.  That awful empty, pit of my stomach feeling has not gone away. 
My mind wanders back to August, it was one of the few 100 degree days, the air conditioning went out in the lobby where I work. Johnny not only came in on his own time to get the air going again, he went to Sonic and bought me a cherry limeade cause he said " you look hot and I know girls like those kind of drinks".  I was dripping sweat! That was so nice of him and I wish it was not the first time I had the privilege of meeting him.  The world lost a kind and giving soul Wednesday. We need more people like Johnny.
Sunday starts a new week.  Our co-worker that lost his brother will still be grieving and we will feel for him too, hugs and words of sympathy. What else can we do? Never seems like enough. Life is full of changes and sometimes the changes suck! I guess we will not understand till like that old Sunday Hymn says, by Eliza E Hewitt,  ' till we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be'.
kisses