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Greetings, my friends. October has arrived. I adore everything about this month. Everything. Even my house knows how much I love October and all the creepiness it can bring! I don’t need no stinkin’ fake webs when I have such glorious beauties adorning my home.

I arrived home this morning, from a lovely breakfast bagel with Warren, and found a dainty, dew-wearing web on our mailbox. To add to the October-esque/Haunted House feel, our mailbox is all but falling apart! It never fails that as soon as Autumn hits, our doorway, mailbox and every corner we have gets adorned with the silky tangle of a spider’s handy work… or is it silk-spitting-butt-duct work?

So, to add even more loveliness to this mood, it’s “pea-soup” out there this morning with fog. I walked to the front entry and found multiple Grasshoppers looking back at me. For some reason, they don’t bother me. Even if I get them on me, I don’t mind. I know they won’t hurt me. This guy was slowly walking up a stalk of Russian Sage (they walk really slow, like a Chameleon. It’s so cool! But if they jump, watch out.), but I moved when he did. Hence, blurriness. I still like the “alien” quality the picture has. Soft, yet creepy.

However, I looked down to see another poor tail-end of a grasshopper, deep inside a thick web, being devoured by a large, yellow & black-bodied spider in my Rosemary. Yikes! Again, he knows he is welcome at my house. I don’t want a spider on me (minus the cute little silver spider earring I wear in my ear), but I have a huge amount of respect for spiders. They do great things in the garden. And, I always try to “catch-and-release” them if they are inside the house. But, sometimes, Pullo finds them first and eats them. I can’t count how many spider legs I’ve found lately. Gross! By the way, the pics I took of the spider didn’t do it justice, so I left him out. I think you could imagine him on your own, yes? Hey, is that a spider on your back?? WATCH OUT!! Man, I love Kids in the Hall.

So, it would seem that Autumn has arrived. I hope it really has. But, being in the MidWest, I know no good weather lasts forever. We may hit 90 again before Autumn truly arrives. One just never knows.

Enjoy October and all the misty goodness it brings. It’s going to be a busy one for me, and it ends with a trip to England! Not too shabby.

Happy Hauntings,

Christa Belle