Happy Halloween!

More fun than a barrel of monkeys! Many greetings to all of our ghost and ghouls worldwide.

This yummy graveyard cake was made from Cook's Country's Lost Recipes cookbook (another branch of America's Test Kitchen) Chocolate Blackout Cake. It's apparently based upon a legendary recipe from now defunct Ebinger’s Baking Company in Brooklyn. It sure was delicious. Love the Peeps!



As always, the guests make the party. Zorro and I are with some scary hockey player and a diminutive cowpoke.








Later on we
ran into Vampire Alex and our Egyptian yoga instructor. What an excellent array of characters we know!

Flying Monkeys

Have I mentioned that I have an amazing husband? Not only is he smart and handsome, he's also clever, sweet and adorable. For my 40th birthday, he gifted me with the entire L. Frank Baum books of Oz. From his own childhood, a special memory. Look, here we are straight out of Oz. He's a flying monkey, I'm Dorothy of course. Although you can't see them, I have my red slippers on (comfy ones that I usually wear with my PJs.) This was for Halloween... not some random day after work.

And for this Christmas, we sent to our niece Lily a copy of the first Oz book to allow her to share in our silliness.

For this holiday season, my Chanukah gift (or Christmas eve eve gift) was a PIANO! It's beautiful sounding. I am not able to let my fingers do the talking quite well yet, but I'm back up to playing some of the simpler Bach Preludes... Still needs a lot of work though. We still need to get a stand and the pedals, but right now it's getting a lot of use while resting on the living room table.