Charlie purchased a pumpkin and sweets for me to distribute to the children trick-or-treating in Ancrum. Remarkably, this is the first pumpkin I have carved in my fifty years. Making a pumpkin was easy, especially after watching a how-to YouTube video. Spooning out stringy slime and slippery seeds was an experience.
I sat down with the pumpkin and watched John Carpenter's Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. I feared this movie as a child, but now it amuses me.
My hands have not been steady after power washing my patio. I thought about using a tripod but chose to film this moment authentically.
The children's trick-or-treat costumes were impressive. After they threatened to smash my windows and never come back, I handed them two sealed buckets of sweets.