Celebrities In Their Halloween 2008 Costumes

Celebrities hosted and attended parties last week for this year's Halloween celebration. They were dressed in all sort of of costumes, from old presidents to sexy cops. Checkout their scariest and funniest costumes.


Blake Lively posed as Cleopatra while Martha Stewart was dressed as Medusa.


Heidi Klum hosted her annual Halloween party with a Hindu-god costume.


Mariah Carey and her husband, Nick Cannon dressed as a chocolate chip cookie and a carton of milk then as a fireman and firewoman at a Halloween bash they hosted at N.Y.C. hot spot Marquee.


Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag celebrated Halloween as a convict and sexy cop officer.


Brooke Shields as black cat brought her daughters to the Dream Halloween event.


Kim Kardashian was the Wonder Woman at her Los Angeles masquerade bash.


Rachael Ray as Ann Darrow, while her husband John Cusimano was dressed up in a Kingkong outfit.


On Friday's The View, the cast dressed as former U.S. Presidents: Whoopi Goldberg was Franklin D. Roosevelt; Joy Behar, Theodore Roosevelt; Sherri Shepherd, Abraham Lincoln; and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Ronald Reagan.


As part of "Live's Star-Studded Halloween," hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa dressed as Hannah Montana and one of the Jonas Brothers.


Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott attended a trick or treat party with their son.


Jennifer Garner and daughter, Violet, were dressed up as Fred and Ted the dog.

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We've Been Hit!!

I was up early today to get ready to go to work, and as usual, I opened the door to let the dog out. This is the sight that greeted me out the front door.

Toilet paper and orange and black streamers hung from the trees out front. Happy Halloween from some of the neighborhood tricksters!

I called out to my son in the other room, "We've been hit!"

My son came outside to investigate and declared it the job of "rank amateurs." Not enough toilet paper was used, and it wasn't thrown up nearly high enough in the trees was his judgment. You can see some of the black streamers in the photo below.

Here you can see one of the orange streamers hanging down.


My son got busy and had it all cleaned up in about five minutes. He found out later in the day which of his friends had decided to decorate our yard for the Halloween season, and they had a good laugh together over it. Having your yard toilet papered is a sign that you are liked and have friends around here. Although it is more common to happen around Halloween, it takes place year round in this town. We had a good laugh over the morning greeting.

Oh, and about those leaves in the yard from yesterday's post. They are all raked down into the gutter of the street in front of our house, as you can see in the photo below, and ready for the city workers to come and sweep them up. Well, they are all raked until more fall from the trees. But for now, for today, they are done.

Happy Halloween!!

FROM DAISY THE HALLOWEEN CAT!!

Happy Halloween!!

Saying Goodbye To the October Sky

Gabcast! Dancing With Daisy #39 - Saying Goodbye To the October Sky




Click the play button above to hear me read this poem.

Saying Goodbye to the October Sky

It's almost time
to say goodbye
to the clouds
of the October skies.

Baskets of apples
piled high
Pumpkins carved
with triangle eyes

Witches and monsters
and ghosts saying boo
Leaves and rakes,
bats and spiders too

Sacks full of acorns
Shadows crossing the floor
trick or treat candy corns
a purple bowl by the door

Cornucopia of colors,
so much to see
from the fruits of the harvest
to the leaves in a tree

It's almost time
to say goodbye
to the clouds
of the October sky.