The Official Passing of the Graveyard

So yesterday the neighbors from Halloween House formally handed over the cemetery to us.  We got the cemetery fencing (minus the fancy gate), the window boardings, and the partial coffins that look like their bursting up from the ground.  I kind of have mixed feelings on that.  It’s a shame that Shawn won’t be there for Halloween this year (or any year in the future), but kind of nice that some of the materials will still be used in the cul-de-sac.  I think the new stuff will cover the front of our house and the neighbors on the opposite side of the former Halloween House.

In the process of moving the stuff from their basement to mine, I got the equivalent of climbing 85 flights of stairs (plus probably about the same descending, but we don’t really count those).

We started “Operation Anti-Cardboard” Saturday.  Candice painted the first coat on the closet doors and I did the first coat on the ceilings in the guest bedroom.  Not sure how long it’ll take for us to finish, but hopefully it won’t take nearly six months like it did to finish painting the ceilings in the living room and kitchen.  Having half the furniture cluttering up the loft might be an incentive to keep pushing through!

We also laid claim to two more kittens, which assuming Shadow doesn’t return, will bring the number to 3 – one for each kiddo.  The new kittens will hopefully help ghost not be quite so needy and annoying by giving her some companionship.  The new kittens will be named Chimera and Phantom.  One is calico (mostly black with some golden yellow highlights spread throughout) and the other a golden yellow.  We will pick them up this coming Sunday, so we have a week to get the litter boxes scooped and cleaned so that they will accept them.  Ghost also has another surprise this weekend as it’s time to get her fixed.

Donna has become an absolute beast lately, thinking she can do whatever she wants and ignoring what we tell her to do – or worse – back-talking.  That young lady is hopefully starting to learn that that does not work in this household, but I doubt it, since she seems to think she has impunity to our rules.