We had a nice breakfast this morning - I made asparagus, onion and cheddar omelets! And our yummy coffee from Spain. Deelish! After that, we took the dogs to Singing Beach in Manchester so they could romp on the beach! A wonderful time was had by all, let me tell you! Koty, however, did try to start something up with a couple big huskies on the beach. Our dog, my friends, is a racist! It's terrible! He HATES all huskies and ALL German shepherds. Across the board. Case closed. They are all scum and need to be yelled at, apparently! I can understand the husky thing - we had a neighbor and he had three quite aggressive huskies. We had a run-in one time with them when the owner had them off-leash, so Koty remembers that. I can give him that. But the German shep thing? I have no idea where that came from, but they are apparently cut from the same terrible cloth as huskies! In Koty's mind, anyway!
After the beach, which, incidentally is in Manchester-by-the-Sea, and give me a large break that the people in that city actually rallied to get the official name of the town changed from Manchester to "Manchester-by-the-Sea." Really? Seriously? Give me a huge break. We are ALL by the sea, douchebag! We live on the COAST!!! Jeeeez. Get over yourselves Manchester people!
Let's see, where shall I go on vacation? How about Palm Beach-by-the-sea, Florida? How about that? Boston-by-the-sea? New York-by-the-Sea? Give me a break, right? No one else would be so douchebaggy as to call themselves that!! JEEEZ!
Ok. Sorry. A bit of a rant there.
So, after the beach we came back here, dropped off the dogs and then walked downtown to a new restaurant that opened up on Wednesday called Cafe Polonia. Polish food. Phooey. We had bad potato pancakes - they were undercooked and just not that tasty. I make much better ones, if I do say so myself! And most of the stuff on the menu was, of course, meat-related. I haven't eaten red meat since I was 18, so it was sort of a bust for me. I had a dreary cabbage soup that was 99% broth. Not exciting. Too bad!
Walking to and from the restaurant was pretty fun, though! Salem is a mob scene this month and particularly on weekends! Lots of street vendors out and food carts and people in costume! It was entertaining!
After that, we came back here, and I grabbed the invitations for our big Halloween bash that I made up and walked around to neighbors' houses to hand them out...Now, as promised, I will tell the tale of last year's debacle that was our party. What a mess! So, unbeknownst to me, my lovely husband invited the entire Western world to our party last year. Or at least a good portion of Salem! We had probably 120 crazy noodlehead people come through our house. At one point I bet we had close to 80 people here at one time! People were showing up with like 6 or 7 or 8 or more friends - people I'd never met or seen before. It was so unsettling having utter strangers in the house!
Well, the first real sign of things to come was when my husband dropped an entire case of BOTTLED beer on our bar floor, which is tile. DISGUSTING. So, of course, he did a crap job of cleaning it up, so that meant that people were walking in the beer and then tracking it throughout the house. I was not a happy camper.
The last and final straw after I was finding cups, beer bottles, beer cans and random drinks in every possible location throughout the entire downstairs, was when we were FINALLY rid of all the crazies and were heading to bed at 3am. Gird yourselves here - it's going to get graphic and digusting...
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In front of the loveseat in our living room on our beautiful Oriental rug? A huge pile of vomit. HUGE. And the perpetrator or shall I call him the URPitrator left his glasses right plop in the middle of the puke. So, we knew who it was immediately. Not some young person either, this guy is in his mid-50s and should FRIGGIN know better. Right?
MAN. I was beside myself. I refused to even go into that room until the rug was out of there. It was revolting. ReVOLTing. So, I made my husband take care of that and he also called the guy the next day and said this:
"So, dude...You missing your glasses?" And the guy said yes.
"Well, uhhh, we found them last night. RIGHT in the middle of your PUKE on our living room rug!"
He was horrified, of course and offered many apologies and to pay to have it cleaned. So, that was nice, right? Well, the cretin NEVER paid us a penny. Not a cent. So, POOP him, is what I say! POOP. ON. HIM.
Not a good party for good old me. It better be FAR more civilized this year, or I'm going to be taking names!
Back to today...After walking all over to hand out invites, I then had to water everything! I don't ever remember watering my flower boxes this late in the season, but I must have...Huh. I'll have to pay attention next year! Anyway, things are still going strong and looking pretty.
I don't have any photos from today - will take some tomorrow. I will leave you with a fall arrangement I did for a client a couple years ago. SO pretty and they looked fabulous in her dining room!
The large centerpiece:
I really liked this centerpiece!Two smaller ones for the ends of the table:
And one for her living room table:
Ok. That's all I gots for today.
Hope you're having a good weekend!
Au revoir!
Last years party was ghoulish!
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I'm not screamish but I'd have put a hex on that upchucker. :0)
Hope the goblins and goblets are better mannered this year.
P.S. I love Platski's.
Penny here, I'm up north at Folly-Cove-by-the-Ocean...No joke with Manchester. Anyway, yes, you folk know how to throw a good party and you're doing it again after you swore never again? Brave. And flowers here are lovely! Nice job!
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