A truly beautiful day again!  Over 60 deg. and I had to go into town on Halloween Day to get my annual flu shot, which didn't take very long.  I had made an appointment at the local hospital, and was the second in line.  I also took all my recyclables to the landfill, then went to the feed store and loaded up on goodies for the dogs and the chicken.  I took a couple of bags of old clothes to Good Will, a nice Pendleton jacket of my mother's and a good corduroy shirt, boy sized.  Then on to Menards, who has the best price on suet cakes for the birds.  I got 16 suet cakes and let's hope they last for awhile.  I have a new woodpecker or flicker (or both) that really eat a lot. 

In my birdbook, I have found the woodpecker, but it is called the red-bellied woodpecker.  There's a long streak of red on the back of its head, but no red on the belly.  I suppose it's a case of the namer of these birds not getting this one confused with the red-headed woodpecker, whose entire head is red.  Still, couldn't they have named it something a little more in line with its appearance?  I think the other one is the flicker, maybe the female.  If it would call out, I would know for sure.  There's the pileated woodpecker here, but they hesitate to get onto the little suet basket.  I need to get bulk suet from the butcher and hang it in a big basket right on the tree trunk, but I want to wait until the bears have gone to sleep for the winter.  And of course, we have the hairy woodpecker and the downy woodpecker.  The hairy is larger than the downy; otherwise, they look the same. 

I also bought a package of window plastic to keep cold drafts from coming in.  I've never used this before, so should be an interesting effort, getting it on the windows.  A tiny bag of candy, peppermnt patties, in case trick-or-treaters come by (they never have), and another electric cord and a cube for many plug-ins.  And they had a 1/2 price sale on wallpaper borders, so I bought a cute green-blue border with happy frogs and lily pads.  This will sit in a drawer until I need it (?)

Then gas in the truck and home.  I would be in a terrible state, if I hadn't made up my mind not to even think about the coming election - tension is high, so I limited myself to the 5:30 news with Brian Williams, Keith Olberman at 7:00, and a start of the Rachel Maddow Show, but I find her a bit abrasive, carping on things that she should just leave alone.  For Halloween, I watched a scary movie called "Second Subject" or something, that was truly nasty.  I worked the very last puzzle of Sudoku in my little book, and that's all there is to October.