Hello Ghoolies and Ghosties and Three Leggedy Beasties!

I hope you're all nicely recovering from your candy binge tummy aches or cocktail headaches, or both! I know some of you are too old to go trick or treating now, but I hope you don't think you're the only one out there that buys too much candy for trick or treaters just so you have an extra bag of snack-sized Milk Duds lying around!

I was hanging out last night in Becket, MA with my friends Dominic, Mikey Merenda, Ruthy Ungar-Merenda, little Will and a tiny little dragon with a very cute "raarrrrr!"(aka Virgil). The tiny dragon and I hung out while the band played and while witches and vampires shuffled in until it was bed time. At which point I sat in a rather comfy chair in the middle of the party and let the little dragon snooze on me for a long time. I didn't think about how late it was getting until Angus Young (not the real one) saw me sitting in the middle of a crowded bar, on Halloween with a sleeping infant and asked me, "Dude, why'd you bring your baby?!". Think I responded by getting up and walking away...to a quieter part of the lodge. Oh, Halloween is fun for so many different kinds of people for so many different reasons....

Well, I'm finally back in New England for a little while and just in time to be reminded of why autumns in New England have such a good reputation. I haven't been here in almost two years and, as soon as I get behind the wheel of a car, it's like I never left at all.... It's true, ask Dominic..... I'm just glad Virgil hasn't learned to repeat EVERYTHING we say yet...... The next trip we take out here, I might have to let Dominic drive the whole time or else Virgil might pick up on a particular bad habit I have! *&$^%$*!!