Dear Miss Blue,

The Caterpillar suit, fuzzy and warm, made of alpaca wool and dyed the orange and black is what I will be wearing this Halloween. It isn't too late, Miss Blue, for my quick and creative fingers to fashion one for Fanny. I really don't think the other revelers will even notice Fanny in her Little Gourd outfit, especially were the weather to turn snowy or rainy the hollandaise soaked papier mache dripping off in slippery, non-elegant strands will surely make Fanny hopping mad!

Of course, looking at it all in another way; that is what Halloween is all about! Scaring and startling the folks with promises of the worst to come, promises settled with gifts of candy and apples, gum and pennies. She might search for special coins; some frightened folks will unknowingly give away Indian Pennies. We always hunted for the Indian head on the copper penny and showed them off at school the next day. Tell Louise to make the popcorn balls with vanilla syrup and the candied apples with the clear syrup - crunchy and much more beautiful than the brown caramel apples sold in the grocery store around here in the Village. I plan to make both. . .

Schubert sends his love to you, Miss Blue, and he wants me to take his picture in his Halloween Suit, and so I will. Perhaps a Clown Suit? Please write again, Miss Blue and I will settle down to telling stories of then and now.

Pearl, Overjoyed to hear from you again