On the eighth day of Halloween

The Great Pumpkin gave to me:

Weather cold enough that I had to turn the heat on after my nap this afternoon, brrr;

Some stuff I have been meaning to show you forever-
A pile of FANTASTIC feedsacks;
two sweet bottle brush trees;
a handful of ornaments (I found a HUGE box of ornaments in the basement yesterday while digging for an emergency costume for Jack to wear to his kindergarten party today. I have decided that this year I *am* going to weed down the collection some. They cannot stay in the basement where they will be ruined by humidity. I am ITCHING to start that project, but holding off until after Sunday.);
a doll cradle that I am crazy, madly, deeply in love with. Sorry this is not a great photo, the sun is getting lower before I have a chance to take pics for the day.

It's the perfect shade of green and yellow and it's actually pretty small. It has no signs of ever having had a bottom, so I need to get Dave to put some kind of bottom on it and then it goes into Miss Thing's room. (And PLEASE let me have a free moment soon to make a little dolly for her to put in it.);
a little note in Jack's bag from "Gracie" at school. He has been bringing home quite a few notes from Gracie this week. Hmmmmm :-). (Except that he doesn't seem to give one hoot about the little hearts she is drawing on everything for him!);

and while this is not thrilling to you, I spent the morning cleaning out the linen closet. Dave asked me to do SOMETHING about it way back when I was on bedrest (not right then, of course), and I decided it was time to make room for the rest of the laundry in there once and for all.

However, we are NOT going to discuss the fact that I have 20 duvet covers and I could only manage to purge one.

Because you understand that problem.

Right?

3 days till Halloween and I have to figure out just how Jack is going to wear the bat wings and then the costume is DONE.

But we don't even have any pumpkins yet!