DAYS TO JACK O LANTERN DAY: 23
DAYS TO SPOOKY SPRING: 83
DAYS TO HALFOWEEN: 112
DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON: 205
DAYS TO THE BERS: 236
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON: 257
DAYS TO OCTOBER:
266
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 296


Good Morning Halloween Friends! Happy Jeep Day! I do indeed get my new Jeep later this morning. And Holly has an appointment this morning and we find out if she has to have surgery or not. I'm nervous, but I want to get it over again one way or the other.

This weather warmup is very strange. Today gets to almost 60 degrees, and the weekend stays warm too. The mild weather, with the bare trees and "straggler" leaves laying around, have really conjured up feelings of Spooky Spring. It's almost been like a little "preview" of what is to come here in 83 more days.

Almost the weekend now, pumpkin friends! And I have all day off today because of the doctor appointment and then having to go get my Jeep. It almost feels like a holiday! Have a great day!
Hope that Holly gets good news today! Enjoy your Jeep!
 
Hello Halloween Fans! I hope you are doing well on this spring day. Oh wait we're in the dead of winter? Well compared to the weather we've had for the most part the last 6 weeks today might feel slightly like spring. Happy Halloween!
 
DAYS TO JACK O LANTERN DAY: 23
DAYS TO SPOOKY SPRING: 83
DAYS TO HALFOWEEN: 112
DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON: 205
DAYS TO THE BERS: 236
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON: 257
DAYS TO OCTOBER:
266
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 296


Good Morning Halloween Friends! Happy Jeep Day! I do indeed get my new Jeep later this morning. And Holly has an appointment this morning and we find out if she has to have surgery or not. I'm nervous, but I want to get it over again one way or the other.

This weather warmup is very strange. Today gets to almost 60 degrees, and the weekend stays warm too. The mild weather, with the bare trees and "straggler" leaves laying around, have really conjured up feelings of Spooky Spring. It's almost been like a little "preview" of what is to come here in 83 more days.

Almost the weekend now, pumpkin friends! And I have all day off today because of the doctor appointment and then having to go get my Jeep. It almost feels like a holiday! Have a great day!
I hope it was good news.
 
Praying for you both, right now.

Thank you! We are going to have surgery. I'm not sure of the exact date, but she has a consult with her doctor / surgeon on January 16th.

I'll let everybody know here when we actually go to the hospital. Just like before, almost!
 
Thank you! We are going to have surgery. I'm not sure of the exact date, but she has a consult with her doctor / surgeon on January 16th.

I'll let everybody know here when we actually go to the hospital. Just like before, almost!
I'll start praying for a smooth procedure now.
 
DAYS TO JACK O LANTERN DAY: 22
DAYS TO SPOOKY SPRING: 82
DAYS TO HALFOWEEN: 111
DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON: 204
DAYS TO THE BERS: 235
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON: 256
DAYS TO OCTOBER:
265
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 295

Good Morning Halloween Friends!

It feels like we're jumping through January! It's already Friday, the first full week of January is nearly complete, and NEXT WEEK we will be looking at the HALF WAY point through the month! Anybody's guess on if it continues to "feel" fast, or does it slow down some as we venture further into January.

I think this weather has been helping move the time. It's crazy but over the next 10 days, I don't see any horrible cold weather. Makes me wonder if we cruise through January and maybe into an early Spooky Spring?

4 days away from our next milestone here which will be the 200 DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON milestone. That's mentally a strange one to process right now. We're still in early January but here in just a couple of more days we already have a count break into the 100's?

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Relax, Count, I'm not talking about THE count, I'm talking about our Fall Preseason Count.

And 6 days after that milestone, we hit 250 DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON. January seems to amaze me this month. Maybe I should have paid more attention in past months as to just how many milestones and counts flip in January. If nothing else, it helps move us through the month!

Have a great Friday!
 
Idea for next year — The “expansion” of Spooky Spring into other seasons:

- Wicked Winter
- Scary Summer

And of course for Fall we already have the real thing.

I don’t know, I was just thinking for ways to get my Halloween fix even earlier, and that’s what I came up with. Maybe I’ll try “beta testing” it this year and see how it goes.
 
Idea for next year — The “expansion” of Spooky Spring into other seasons:

- Wicked Winter
- Scary Summer

And of course for Fall we already have the real thing.

I don’t know, I was just thinking for ways to get my Halloween fix even earlier, and that’s what I came up with. Maybe I’ll try “beta testing” it this year and see how it goes.

I really really love this idea, but at least for me personally, the weather in April is the mirror edge of October. I think it would be too difficult where I live to really mentally get into it when we are freezing to death in January, and literally melting away in the 100 degree days of Summer.

But there's always this, that I think of in January:

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DAYS TO JACK O LANTERN DAY: 21
DAYS TO SPOOKY SPRING: 81
DAYS TO HALFOWEEN: 110
DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON: 203
DAYS TO THE BERS: 234
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON: 255
DAYS TO OCTOBER:
264
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 294

WEEKS TO OCTOBER: 37
WEEKS TO HALLOWEEN: 42


Good Morning Halloween Friends!

We have arrived at another weekend! Exciting updates on the count today as we now see only three weeks until JOL Day #1, and we're just THREE DAYS away from our next major milestone, which is the 200 DAYS TO FALL PRE-SEASON milestone!

Keep your eye on that Spooky Spring and Halfoween Count. Both continue to diminish rapidly. It will be here before we know it!

I hope everyone has a great Saturday! Have a great day!
 
Idea for next year — The “expansion” of Spooky Spring into other seasons:

- Wicked Winter
- Scary Summer

And of course for Fall we already have the real thing.

I don’t know, I was just thinking for ways to get my Halloween fix even earlier, and that’s what I came up with. Maybe I’ll try “beta testing” it this year and see how it goes.
I think this is an AMAZING idea!
I love trying get to those little moments of Halloween all year long.
 
We had a lot of rain yesterday with 40-45 mph winds and I was so grateful that the temps were in the 40s otherwise it might have been blizzard conditions.
 
DAYS TO JACK O LANTERN DAY: 20
DAYS TO SPOOKY SPRING: 80
DAYS TO HALFOWEEN: 109
DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON: 202
DAYS TO THE BERS: 233
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON: 254
DAYS TO OCTOBER:
263
DAYS TO HALLOWEEN: 293


Happy Sunday Halloween Friends! Another warm day today and I think today is the day that I finally take down the outside lights. Halloween lights went up on October 1st, 2025, transitioned over to full Christmas on 11/1/2025, and ran for the last time yesterday, January 10th 2026. That's an incredible 101 days of running. No wonder my electric bill was so high!

Two days away now from the 200 DAYS TO FALL PRESEASON milestone, and just four days away now from 250 DAYS TO HALLOWEEN SEASON. Two major milestones before Friday is even here!

Have a great day, friends!
 
I think hitting 100 days of holiday illumination earns you an A+

When I first started doing this routine years ago, I never really started out by trying to put a number on how many days I wanted to go. When the Halloween lights came about organically in 2020, I think I realized then that we had something special. As I was only having to wait about 8 1/2 months from the time they came down, instead of having to wait almost 11 months. I'm all for trying to shave time however possible!
 
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