Archive for October, 2009

This past weekend our family visited Gardner Village in West Jordan, Utah to the see their annual display of witches.

There’s Emma getting cozy with a witch.  She decided to sit for a spell.  (I know, I know, I couldn’t help myself.)

Even the witches can’t hang up their phones.  At least she wasn’t flying and texting, like this next witch.

She was my son’s favorite this year. You can’t see her eyes from this angle, but they look like cartoon concussion eyes, you know the spiral.

I say his favorite this year, because his annual favorite, “Witchy Poo” was nowhere to be found.  She was a witch sitting in an outhouse reading the newspaper.  Do you see why she appealed to my 3rd grade boy?  She always sent Ben into a fit of laughter. We looked all over for Witchy Poo and concluded she wasn’t around this year.  Maybe she finally discovered a good laxative potion.  But we’lll miss her, especially Ben.

My husband’s favorite was still around.  She is fishing with dynamite.  Something about that really appeals to him.  Is it the fishing?  Or the dynamite?  Or both?

We look forward to seeing the witches every year.   And one of the best parts of visiting the Gardner Village Witches is that it’s free.  It doesn’t get more “Make it Do” than that.

I hope you and your family can find your way to a wonderful free activity this Halloween.

“I am rich today with autumn’s gold,
All that my covetous hands can hold;
Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod,
A goldfinch on a milkweed pod,
Huge golden pumpkins in the field
With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield,
Golden apples heavy on the trees
Rivaling those of Hesperides,
Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread
Over all like butter on warm bread;
And the harvest moon will this night unfold
The streams running full of molten gold.
Oh, who could find a dearth of bliss
With autumn glory such as this!”
-   Gladys Harp

The weekend is almost here and I hope to enjoy the Autumn Glory to it’s fullest.  I rarely make a To Do list for things I want to do… but here it is:

• Watch the Utes win their football game!
  
• Pick pumpkins.
• Rake the leaves.
• Visit the Witches at Gardener Village.
• Create a ghost out of an old sheet out on the front lawn.
  
• Walk along a crunchy path with a canopy of Autumn leaves over my head.

I hope you all have a great weekend.  Cheers, Calli