THIS AND THAT * Actress Angela Lansbury passed away a few weeks ago. I really love watching her in the TV series “Murder She Wrote.” Also, she was a wonderful Mrs. Potts in the movie “Beauty and the Beast.” (I have a china Mrs. Potts bank that I bought at Smith’s many years ago. Roma said she bought it because she thought it was cute.) And I loved her as Miss Price, in the Disney movie “Bedknobs and Broomsticks.” She was an actress with a repartee of Broadway successes and movies through several decades that only a few can aspire to. Here are just some of her film successes: “The Long Hot Summer” (I am not going to lie, I watched it for Paul Newman), “The Court Jester” with Danny Kaye, “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” “Samson and Delilah,” “Fantasia,” “National Velvet,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “The Grinch,” and “Blue Hawaii.”

HALLOWEEN JOKES * If you haven’t already, it’s time to release the Reese’s Peanut butter Pumpkins! * What do you call a witch’s garage? A broom closet. * What kind of food would you find on a haunted beach? A sand-witch! * What was the witch’s favorite subject in school? Spelling.

PUMPKIN PATCH FUN If you missed the Stockton Pumpkin Patch this year on the first weekend of October, then you missed out on a lot of good old family fun! I am probably the event’s number one cheerleader since you all know how much I LOVE Fall, so I am going to brag it up!

GOBLIN’S GLORY MEMORIES When the moon is full and the witches fly the Stockton FFA members prepare for the annual Goblin’s Glory! Members set up booths and conduct a variety of games with the format not changing since its inception. That means there is always the auction where people can bid for special prizes, and the soup supper to kick off the event!

HOMECOMING MEMORIES Yes, I am still on my trip down Memory Lane and thought I would reminisce about my Homecomings while I was in high school. We were state champs my freshman year with the Tigers winning the MCL Championship, the Regional District Class 2A Playoff in Stockton, and then beating Baldwin 26 to14 to claim the State title.

THE LETTER JACKET I am taking a trip down Memory Lane since I saw the SHS cheerleaders wearing their letter “sweaters” at one of the recent home football games. It brought back bittersweet memories for me that I cherish to this day.

Since I am on the Nova Theatre Board, a lot of people ask why the Nova has to wait a few weeks to run a movie when it is already in other theatres, doesn’t get this movie or that movie, or has to run a movie for two weeks, etc. So I thought I would explain how the studios work.

* So sorry to hear of Queen Elizabeth’s passing. She was a go-getter and took her title seriously.

* I have put my order in for a lovely, and long, fall season with the leaves turning into beautiful shades of orange, yellow and red. If it goes the way I would like it to, fall will have some cool rainy days when needed and will stay around until the end of November.

THIS AND THAT * I have decided to be the Roma Smith of my generation who went to the Stockton swimming pool whenever she could! She is my inspiration with her “plain old vanilla” walk. And I will add that I met my water spirit at the Hays Aquatic Park this summer. This 80-something lady goes to the pool whenever she can to work on her tan! That is so me.