Halloween was a week ago, but haven't had time to post anything. This is the second year I've tried hanging up these little turnip things which are really effective and elicit a lot of comments. You have to keep an eye on them, though. The candles tend to go out from lack of oxygen or they catch fire easily. The twine on this one was burning through when I took it down. They also have to be done the same day as they go soggy and collapse pretty quickly. I didn't think about it until the morning of Halloween, so I was stuck using turnips from Safeway that already had the stringy tops cut off.

I'm having tilting and tinnitus problems again today, probably sinuses. Luckily my incunabula commentaries are confining me to the couch anyway. Yesterday morning was stunningly beautiful, so I walked down to the farmers market and got Indian food from the nice man and his daughter there. They make a cilantro chutney that is a food of the gods, but it has enough garlic in it to drop a rhino at 50 paces.