For several years of my childhood, I went trick or treating with my friend Stephanie.  Sometimes we would start in my neighborhood and then end in her neighborhood.  One of her neighbors always made homemade Popcorn Balls for the children she knew.  These Popcorn Balls are one of my favorite Halloween treats and bring back [...]

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1 pounds ground round, pressed into 4 hamburger patties 4 slices cheese, cut out Jack-o-lantern face in cheeseGrill or fry hamburgers as you prefer. Apply cheese at end of cooking to melt on top.

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There is a gruesome a massacre of nuns in a French convent.  The murderer is looking for an American woman who is staying at the convent.  It just so happens that the American, Eve, is not at the convent when the murders took place.  The nuns took Eve in a year prior to the massacre [...]

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UPDATE: Click to check out the new post on You’ve Been Spooked by the Halloween Phantom with a downloadable ghost and poem. Sunday night the Halloween Phantom Struck our home.  He delivered a bag full of Halloween candy and 2 notes.  The first note was a copy of rudimentary drawing of a ghost with the [...]

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  Recently, we were late getting BusyBoy and GigglyGirl to bed.  Since it was dark out and it has not really been dark before bedtime for them in awhile, I decided to get some sparklers out and let them see what they look like.  They have never seen sparklers before and were quite impressed. As [...]

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