Showtime!

It’s finally the 1st of Halloween.

Skelly is happily on the patio, basking in the sunlight in his cowboy outfit.

I set Skelly up a few days ago, but tonight will be the first night I turn on the patio's Halloween lights.

I’d previously posted how Next-Door Neighbor had knocked on the door, said the skull on the doormat almost scared the life out of her. Well, the day Skully made it to the patio, she knocked on the door again, pointed to Skully on the patio, said, "I don’t care for the company you keep".

She seemed serious, actually looked a little angry.

I don’t know if it’s her illness and worry about how to care for self after her operation that’s causing her to be such a pill, but inasmuch as she knows and has seen me decorate at the Month of Halloween for years, knows I go to the macabre, nothing is new.

I gave her a break because she's ill, let it go with the obvious …… "You should be used to it by now".

She has no idea how I restrained myself …… didn’t put a scary cover on the door, didn't purchase a frightening doormat I’d been tempted to buy.

I'm still tempted to buy that doormat for next year and may yet do so.

Yesterday was No Pizza Tuesday.

I walked through the Community Room last Tuesday, to see if anyone showed up for Kesha, found just one resident — the Upstairs Lady.

Yesterday, around 11:15, a mass text went out from Crafty Lady — "Good morning, just asking if anyone is coming to the Community Room".

Only three of us replied to the text — the Baker, Painted Rock Lady, myself, and we all said "no".

Then came a follow up from Crafty Lady — "Okay, I was told to ask by Kesha to see if anyone was coming. It’s supposed to be crafts, but I’m not doing them, my days are Mon and Wed, see you tomorrow".

I checked the Activity Calendar and, sure enough, listed was "Fall Craft: Join in the Community Room to create a festive fall craft".

It's kinda sad that Kesha was so desperate as to ask Crafty Lady to call folks to come down, and I wonder how long it’s going to take before she realizes she's been cancelled.

Lesson for Kesha here …… notwithstanding the fact that as a Black woman in the workforce, you need to be smart about what you say, do, how you interact with others, tone yourself down, in some cases dumb yourself down is that it's a fact of life that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

As for Crafty Lady doing crafts twice a week, Mon and Wed is a little too much communal crafting for me, as I've got my own projects here in my unit to complete.

However, I do plan to join into Crafts this morning, just so I can gather intel as to what happened after we all said no yesterday …… did anyone else happen to meander down, did Kesha use the downtime to clean out the refrigerator?

To do so would have created some good Karma for her, erased some of the negativity she's created for herself around here by having backed up management's stance when they were hard lining us on keeping the refrigerator locked.