We've seen a few lights around here. Unfortunately they're Halloween lights. How awful to celebrate death and violence and the wicked things of this world. Ugh! Yet at the same time, some people may just be ignorant of what Halloween symbolizes and not everyone is called out of darkness into the Lord's marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).

And I guess Halloween is the first of the holidays of the season. I guess. I wouldn't really consider it a holiday. I've been partial to the Catholic holiday All Saint's Day over the past many years. I look at it as the day before the start of the Christmas seaon. Also, when it comes to minimizing Halloween, I've often heard Reformation Day observed - October 31st, the day Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the Schlosskirche. Actually, we are going to celebrate Reformation Day / All Saint's Day this year with a spice cake. I want to put a pumpkin patch on it just like Mom used to put on my birthday cakes! Maybe a pumpkin patch spice cake will become tradition. Abby would probably like the pumpkin patch.

I'm looking forward to seeing Christmas lights come out. Usually it's after this first holiday of the season. We don't get much Christmas weather here. And it's a little sad seeing Christmas lights in green yards, when it's 80 degrees, and you know there will never be snow. But we make the most of it and the lights are still Christmas lights even without the weather being as it's supposed to be.