The evening is coming when children, and I use that term “children” loosely, will come to my door, dressed in costumes that range from cute to the macabre to the barely there. These little people will hold their bag of candy/loot in front of me, and utter the phrase “Trick or Treat”.

I don’t spend a lot of time on television - whether it be television shows, or movies. I’ve shocked people with my lack of knowledge about classic movies -having never watched most of them.

After my knee surgery, I knew it would be important to create some new routines to have to follow in my time of recovery. One of my favorites was that after work each day, I would crutch into my PT studio (aka the guest bedroom) and turn on Jeopardy to accompany my exercises.

Let’s kick off this week’s column with our community artist in residence Leah Cook’s report from a horse stall at the Lee Mar Ranch’s Trick or Treat event on Sunday, October 30th: “Our decorated stall was like the best miniature prom-box ever, with swags of glittery blue and orange tulle, dinosaurs in eye-popping, shiny or glittery colors, the enormous Wonder Beast sculpture-in-progress made by the ag welding class, a Wonder- Box in progress with freshwater mussels and sequined curtains, and an enormous tub of candy. The door count reported handing out over 200+ trick or treating bags. We lost count after the first 30 minutes.

It’s been nearly two weeks since we said our last good-byes to Jerry Ostensoe. There was a heartfelt and thoughtful memorial service, followed by an afternoon and evening of gathering and listening to wonderful music performed by several talented local area musicians. And the evening before there was live music dedicated to Jerry’s legacy at Blue Nose in downtown Granite.