You're the enemy of the out because I let you in

[sovay]

We're calling this Halloween the Thomas Crown Affair.



Taken by spatch. I don't believe we have any photos of the masked and costumed snow fight between my niece the dragon and King Kong Fox, with gaudior as referee and occasional target, but it was epic.

Comments

[davidgillon]

The Thomas Crown Affair always makes me think of Windmills of Your Mind

Round like a flurry in a corner, like a drift around a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever falling scene
Like a snowball from a dragon, or a costumed Fox,
As the images unwind, like the circles that you find
In the snowfalls of your mind.

[sovay]

The Thomas Crown Affair always makes me think of Windmills of Your Mind

I went looking to see if I had a copy on my computer, but I didn't. The first time I heard that song, though, was on The Muppet Show.

[sholio]

You look fab! :D

[sovay]

You look fab!

Thank you!

[selkie]

You could borrow Child's artfully split-kneed and slashed black velvet Goth Rock trousers. I think they'd really work with this.

They ran around and around friends' yard with many glow sticks, high on mini Rice Krispie treats and a roll of Smarties. What a strange year.

[sovay]

You could borrow Child's artfully split-kneed and slashed black velvet Goth Rock trousers. I think they'd really work with this.

My legs may still be longer than theirs! They definitely have the grasshopper proportions advantage right now, though.

They ran around and around friends' yard with many glow sticks, high on mini Rice Krispie treats and a roll of Smarties. What a strange year.

You can tell them I am wearing one blue and one purplish-pink glow stick on either wrist, which means I'm pretty sure I'm wearing a bi flag.

It is a strange year, but we are here for it. (2020: the equal and opposite reaction of Shehecheyanu and NOPE.)

[selkie]

PRETTY SURE THEY'LL MATERIALIZE AND YOU CAN SHOW THEM.

[minoanmiss]

BWEE. :)

[sovay]

BWEE.

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

Dang! The masked and costumed snow fight sounds awesome! (But you do make a dashing Thomas Crown)

[sovay]

Dang! The masked and costumed snow fight sounds awesome!

It was chaotic and charming and occasionally punctuated by the combatants doing things like drinking hot cider or eating Kit Kats.

(But you do make a dashing Thomas Crown)

(Thank you.)

[cmcmck]

Great pic and SNOW!

[sovay]

Great pic and SNOW!

Thank you! We still have some of the snow, too.

[choco_frosh]

That all sounds lovely.

[sovay]

That all sounds lovely.

It would have been best to be able to hold our annual Halloween party, which had to cease operations for the first time since 1968, but it was really nice. The socially distanced trick-or-treating (participating houses put out candy on tables or blankets in their yards, six feet or more from the door: kids with pandemic masks on as well as the normal kind came by and picked it up: it was permissible to open the front door with a mask on and call, "Happy Halloween!" as they left) actually looked like it worked, too.

[rinue]

Re: photo and Re: calling it the Thomas Crown Affair: Love it.

[sovay]

Re: photo and Re: calling it the Thomas Crown Affair: Love it.

Thank you!