Halloween -- I Swear Its Still My Bag, Baby, Even If I'm Late!

Holy cow, it's here!  Welcome to Halloween 2023!

This is the first time in my 10 (TEN!) years of participation in the Countdown to Halloween that I've been late.  In fact, normally by now I have at least a week loaded up waiting to deploy. I'm so embarrassed.

I had good intentions.  I thought about it many times during September.  I would have sworn I had another week to go, but here we are!

So no more excuses, let's get going.  First up is this year's bag!

I saw this bag at an estate sale over the winter. They had some crazy price like $25 on it so I passed.  But then they announced there would be a fill-a-bag sale for $5 at noon that day. So I waited around.  Come noon, I was in the house headed to the the room with this bag.  Surprisingly, no one had grabbed it yet.  I did.  Then filled up my bag with lots of other treats and paid my $5.

Here's a better scan of the image.

I like the way the kids are terrified, hiding behind the tree from the witch.  However, I'm not so sure they're any safer with that demonic bunny that's with them.  Come to think of it, maybe they're going to jump the witch.  The tree looks quite concerned as does the moon.  The things they've seen. Oh, God, the things they've seen.

So that's it for the kickoff to my Countdown to Halloween.  I promise I'll try to keep up for the rest of the month.

Be sure to head over to The Countdown and visit all the bloglins; they're handing out fun-sized treats to all the good Trick or Treaters.