Happy Halloween Eve! And Happy Birthday to Only! She almost waited long enough to make her entrance to be our little Halloween Witch. As she won’t be embarrassed, I’ll also say that for years, she thought Halloween was all about her birthday. As a result, I have TUBS of Halloween decorations but now I’m too lazy to put them up.

In other news, good thing there was no soccer this weekend. Brrrr. 🥶 There was rain. Drizzle. And falling temps. Our high on Fridazy was 73, which occurred at about 3 a.m. When the blue norther blew through, our temps dropped steadily over the next hour into the low 50s and then into the 40s. Yesterday, we didn’t get out of the 30s, with windchills in the 20s, and more rain. We need the rain so no gritching there. And the hard freeze last night will help with the bugs though it mean putting out suet for some of the birds.

In sports news, the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks split the first two games in Texas. Sunday was a travel day and the third game is tonight. I don’t care who wins and I’m really happy to be watching some outstanding baseball. Fingers crossed the World Series goes the full seven games! 🤞🏼 In closer to home, sports news, my Cowboys from the real OSU won their homecoming game in excellent fashion. OU played a close game up in Kansas. The Jayhawks beat the Sooner by a touchdown. Bedlam is this coming Friday. OU vs. OSU. And since OU moves to the SEC next year, this will be the last Bedlam game. It ought to be a crazy game!

I finished listening to Kate Carlisle’s THE TWELVE BOOKS OF CHRISTMAS. If you enjoy cozy mysteries with romantic elements, I highly recommend her Brooklyn Wainwright Bibliophile series. I’m currently listening to Jayne Ann Krentz’s DREAM EYES, which is a book peripheral to her Arcane Society series. Once I finish it, I’m not sure what I’ll grab. I have holds on two books at the library–THE DEAD TAKE THE A TRAIN and THE STARLING HOUSE–but they looks to be 3-5 weeks away. There are a couple of books from my auto-buy authors out there but haven’t dropped in audio yet. Maybe I’ll just follow on with the Arcane series as it rolls into the Jayne Castle FutureRom books. That’s a term I just coined for paranormal romances that are technically science fiction because they happen in either the future or the very far future on a different planet but they don’t “read” like a true science fiction story. Anyway…

The Boston Wolves continue to take up my time though I do with they’d stop dragging me dow nthe occasional rabbit hole. Procrastinating is easy enough for me without their help! Still, new scenes, moving chapters forward, and the enhanced snippet for this Wednesday Words post got me an honorable mention in the flash fiction challenge I do every week.

That’s pretty much the new and round-up of the weekend. I’ll be bundling up to head to Wallyworld this morning. I did mention the hard freeze overnight, yeah? It’s still below freezing and the forecast is for a high of 43. At least it’s not that cold drizzly rain like yesterday. What’s the new from your neck of the woods?