All Hallow's Eve Memories

I look out the window and see the leaves falling

The spiders are weaving the webs around the front door. 

I think the season calls for leaving the webs through the end of the month.

Why you ask? Its soon to be All Hallows Eve!

My mind wanders back to Halloween on the farm.

We always carved the pumpkins and roasted the seeds. 

The Old Farmer would get the pumpkins started by cutting out
a round lid with a notch to fit it in place. And carefully

held the knife on an angle inwards so the lid was beveled
to fit and would not fall in!

The pumpkins went out at sunset with a candle inside.

Then there was the year
The Old Farmer made a pumpkin man
to sit in a chair out by the road.
He stuffed an old pair of overalls with straw
and put him in an old pair of boots.
And he had a spooky pumpkin head. 

Something dark and scary happened overnight
and in the morning his parts were scattered to all corners. 

Halloween did not disappoint.