It's the first of October. With a turn of a calendar page, I become giddy with excitement. The air is a bit colder, the leaves are a variety of colors and falling to the ground, and it's time to break out the pumpkin recipes. October has always been my favorite month. I love the colder weather and all that it brings. Football season, homecoming parades, corn mazes, picking out your own pumpkin, and rediscovering your favorite warm sweater that has been in storage all summer long. My favorite month is capped off with my favorite holiday, Halloween. I love Halloween for a variety of reasons (my earliest was free candy), but one is the ghost stories. The days are shorter, the wind howls