Happy Halloween Eve!

#Sandy
While it may have been a non-event here in Central New York, my heart goes out to all of those affected downstate and on Long Island in addition to anyone in Cortland whose family is down there. I pray for a speedy recovery to everyone down there and restoration of power as quickly as possible.

So even though I didn't need it, I did make a storm kit for Sandy just in case the winds did knock out power. Since we didn't need it, I decided to pack it away and save it for a blizzard or whatever wacky weather event that might occur. Here's a (not so good) photo of my kit that could be saved.


Here's what's inside: Canned meat (Chicken, Tuna, Vienna Sausages (gross I know but in case of emergency!)), instant coffee and powdered creamer, honey nut cheerios, water, evaporated milk, A/C power adapters (so we can charge phones in the car), baby wipes, batteries, and storm candles. An old comforter bag worked perfectly!

FOOD!
So remember when I told you I'm obsessed with food, you're not allowed to laugh when you see the next photo! 

Since we had a bunch of leftovers in the fridge from the weekend, we decided to clean them out today for lunch! This is only like 3/4 of what we had, don't worry it didn't ALL get eaten. Here's what you're looking at. 2 homemade empanadas, 2 chunks of homemade pepperoni bread, 2 smoked wings from Piggy Pats, 9 Chicken nuggets and a couple french fries. We also had some homemade chips and a small dish of pulled pork.

PUMPKIN!

 So I bought a pumpkin over the weekend with hopes to get a picture of Noey sitting next to it like the great one I got last year

So much for that thought, he may be more mellow now but he's also got a mind of his own! So today I decided to carve his pumpkin into a kitten! It was messy and unexpectedly difficult because it was so small but it worked out as you can see by the photos above and it made some pretty great baked pumpkin seeds too. Noey finally came out to see his pumpkin and he actually sat on our table and kissed it twice but I couldn't get the photo fast enough so I guess what I have will do!


I hope that everyone has a fabulous Halloween tomorrow!