Happy Halloween!

There are strange powers at work tonight. Although it is not quite Halloween, the shifts in the night time skies are a harbinger of things to come. The fog sits heavy and the  moon peers through a single, blurry eye, at the strange crackling of lightning across the panorama. Thunder follows, like the rumbling of the belly of a huge, unseen beast. Are you prepared for what is coming? Doubtful that you are -after all, I haven't even told you what it is, yet.

Steady yourself. All things will be revealed in their proper time. We are wrapping up the month of October, a few days early. This will give our hungry team the freedom to go out in search of sweets and chocolate. After all, they deserve it. We've been slaving over this cauldron for a month now, we are not super human, not super natural, just a little bit above average, perhaps. But time will tell.

We are scrapping our old image. It was a little too fuzzy-wuzzy for our tastes. Time now for "The Undertaker." While the Grim Reaper may walk these streets at night, come the end of October, November is the beginning of a whole new direction. Consider how this all began, some four or five hundred years or so, ago. Native superstitions in European villages called for a talisman to protect the villagers from the things that go bumping around at night. Those unseen spirits that haunted their dreams and hunted the streets at night.

"All Hallow's Evening," they called it. Followed by "All Saints Day," on the first day of November. The gradual shortening of the name, "Hallow E'en," gave us this current moniker for something that used to scare the daylights out of the fall-time worshippers. In less than a week, the sky will run with the color of blood. You will see things you never thought you'd see before. The awareness factor is over. Now comes the "revealing." For now, our message is simple: Happy Halloween!"

BOO!