It is Halloween, so nearly time for my joke (“What do you call the day after Halloween? Goodbye-ween.”) So here are some skeletons. On Sunday it was the annual Zombie Bike Ride in Davis, when people dress up and ride a route around town all day looking at the different spooky spots on the way, and the houses decorated with Halloween stuff. It’s big over here, as you may have heard, and people go All Out. Some are less imaginative than others (I mean, we put out some pumpkins and not much else; the black widows on our porch are real), and some are incredibly creative. This one house which is on the north Davis greenbelt by the path had a really cool display, skeletons and pirates, a circle of really cool witches, a big inflatable dragon, and a band of skeletal banjo players, plus probably a lot more. It didn’t not look all gross and overdone, it is not even that big a house, but it was a delight to look at. So of course I had to stand on the greenbelt path and sketch. We had watched Scream (the original one) the night before; I’ve not seen that since the 90s, and it was still very 90s, and gorier than I remembered. We were going to watch The Lost Boys that night – so very 80s, but still so very brilliant, I love that film. People stopped and looked at all the fun stuff while I sketched, and I started to draw the skeleton banjo players below but realized the time, and ran home so we could go to the pumpkin patch to see what was left. I drew the banjo players the next day. Something about them just makes me smile. I suppose they remind us we are all smiling inside. Anyway, we spent last night carving our pumpkins (my wife and son’s ones were pretty awesome; I just carved one that said ‘Aloha’ and drew flowers on it) and watching old Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes, plus an old Addams Family episode. Tonight is the trick or treat night; we won’t be doing that this year, but the downtown has its annual Treat Trail. Anyway, Happy Halloween!