#WeekendCoffeeShare: Happy Halloween 2025!

Good Morning on this All Saints Day!   I hope you all had a Happy Halloween last night, if you celebrate.  Thank you for stopping by and I look forward to catching up.

Before I share what’s going on in my corner, I’d like to first raise my mug in honor of Trent McDonald.  Trent was a long time Weekend Coffee Share blogger friend and this is my first coffee share since learning of his unexpected passing on October 5th. I will miss reading his posts, his comments on my posts, his talents both in word and music. We lived several states away and never met, but I’m glad to have made his virtual acquaintance on this journey. Godspeed and my sincere condolences to his family and friends.

In all honestly, it began as kind of an off Halloween, again. Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, I swear, since birth. I don’t remember a year of my life I wasn’t fascinated by all things spooky, witches, pumpkins, the dark woods. In my 20s I threw basement keg parties for Halloween and the planning literally took weeks of my life. LOL Lots of fun memories.

But yesterday morning I just felt off, like it was all happening and I was watching it unfold behind a glass wall. My day was finally here but I wasn’t feeling it. I logged off from work, turned up the Halloween background music and began to set up outside.  Once I got my costume on I was feeling much better.  Then my neighbor came by in the duck costume and I absolutely lost it.

We had about 30 or so kids, ate pizza from an awesome local shop, and watched John Carpenter’s Halloween, as we do every year. I then reflected on everything I got to do this Halloween, and ended my pity party.

• Sylvan Coven Witches Paddle
• Wicked Pick’N – a super cool local vendor market
• Witches Be Witchin’ – a super cool local vendor market
• Wicked Sisters Soups, Spoons and Spirits – a super cool party hosted by a friend
• Bewitching Broom – a local witches night out held at the historic Straight Farmhouse

So today I’ll be getting some things done to wrap up the season  – cutting down the garden and getting it ready for winter, slice and dry some apples that need to be used up, start to pack up the Halloween decor, and make some lecso from the tomatoes and peppers from my garden. It’s a new tradition I’m starting this year. Lecso (pronounced LETCH-oh) is a Hungarian tomato stew my dad made all the time I was growing up – from tomatoes and peppers in our garden. I’ll add Polish sausage to it to honor my mom’s Polish side.

Tonight we’ll be attending All Hallow’s Illumination of Frog Island Park in Ypsilanti.  Looking forward to one last celebration.

How are you? How was your Halloween, if you celebrate?   Thank you, Natalie, for hosting the Weekend Coffee Share.