Not Too Spooky

By Christy Rost, October 2007

It won’t be too spooky around our house this year. My husband, Randy and I are in Colorado working on the renovation of our historic house, which means our Dallas home won't be offering trick-or-treaters its usual spine-tingling experience.

For the past almost 20 years, trick-or-treaters could count on hearing creepy music interspersed with recorded screams, moans, and clanging chains as they walked up the driveway. Flickering pumpkins and lanterns guided excited groups of costumed children safely to the front porch, where they would encounter an eerie vision of thinly veiled cobwebs, hanging bats, drifts of fog rolling across the porch, and the much-anticipated croaky-voiced "good evening" of the monster behind the door – that would be ME!

For a lady who delights in Halloween as much as I do, having no home for my "spirited" alter ego is a true hardship. There will be no decorations to plan and execute, no little children in darling costumes to greet, no older children to scare, and no leftover treats to scarf down in a matter of days.

Thankfully, my lack of a Halloween house to call my own didn't stand in the way of creating Halloween recipes for everyone else. You'll still find spooktacular recipes for your Halloween celebrations on my television cooking and lifestyle show, "Just Like Home" and here at easyentertain.com.

But just wait until next year....I’ll be back in true Halloween form.