This, from 2002. It seemed all the little girls were doing perfect cartwheels before they could walk, but I always looked like Janis when I would try. It probably will be October before I post, again. October is a favorite of almost everyone. Hard to believe it’s separated from August by a measly 30 days. The Halloween decorations will begin going up next week, where they haven’t already. Probably no “holiday” has changed more in my lifetime than Halloween. Linus and the Great Pumpkin from Peanuts were, we are told, intended by Charles Schulz to be a spoof of the commercialization of Christmas. Now, who spoofs Halloween? What was once a semi-innocent night of childish extortion has become one of our more commercialized festivals. I suppose it’s harmless.
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October’s “separated from August by a measly 28 days.” I don’t get it!
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TR,
Today being 9/28, This is the 28 day since it was August.
make that 28th
I hope the new WordPress comes with an edit function!
Same here; we need that edit function! But while I’m aware that today is the 28th day since August and that we still have two days until October, my math says there are 30 days between August and October.
My guess is that August and October touch the 1st and 30th, so 28 days between the months?
TR,
Apparently JJ saw it your way and corrected the text.
When I read it, I assumed he had changed the thought process in that now he was talking about today as being 28 days from August.
30 days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest eat peanut butter except my grandmother. She rides a bicycle.
Where do these weird memories come from?!
The days go by so fast…..Don’t rush us!
Apparently, “cartwheel” = “socially-acceptable flashing”.
“I was shocked about 20 years ago now when I realized that Halloween had been stolen from the children by their elders, who thought they needed another party night!” I said curmudgeonly.
One of my favorite authors gone: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/apr/13/beloved-humor-writer-patrick-mcmanus-dies-age-84/
He will be greatly missed.
I have no problem with adult and teen-age Halloween parties, but teens need to realize that there is a time to stop Trick-or-Treating. Leave that to the younger kids. Besides, so many ‘teens think all they have to do is show up at someone’s door without the hassle of getting into costume. And when did 3:00 in the afternoon become an acceptable time for Trick-or-Treating? Especially with the delay in ending DST?
Yes, I am getting increasingly soured on the whole idea, not because I am getting older but because I can remember how much fun Halloween used to be for little children.
Many Halloweens ago when our oldest was 5 or 6 my wife put together costumes for our girl and me. She was a sheriff, I was her prisoner — and escaped convict, stripes and all. I took her around the neighborhood of course. I ended up using my convict’s cap as an impromptu candy bag because people kept giving me candy.
As sweet as the candy was, the “escaped convict” game my wife played with me afterwards was sweeter!
BTW, we never bothered with handcuffs since an escapee wouldn’t have them. 😉
Get off my lawn, you little ersatz goblins! 😀
In his later years, my dad loved to go to the door to greet the little trick-or-treat kiddies with a big candy bowl in his hand…wearing his Frankenstein monster mask.
He loved all the “holidays”.
Timmy, is that you?
Oh no! Timmy’s a goner!
Maybe Timmy’s fallen into the well (again!) and Lassie’s gone to get help?
Can’t have Halloween any more – it is “Fall Festival”
The secular say it is religious and the church says it is ghosts and goblins.
And others say it is too scary for little kids.
Save me from the naysayers. Please!
Had a cat that led me to another that got trapped in a shed by
drifting snow. Somehow he made me know he wanted me to follow.
For the most part, I’d ignored Halloween for the last decade because we lived in a gated retirement community and there weren’t any kids to give candy to. Now, I’m in a small town in Colorado, in the only house on my block, and the southernmost block of the street. The houses to the north and south both face different streets, and the view from out front looks out across the main part of the town. I’ve no idea if there will be any kids coming around, but we’ll get a bag or so of candy Just In Case, and put whatever doesn’t get handed out in the freezer because I’m diabetic and my sister is watching her weight and we don’t want to be tempted.
“Just in Case” …. famous last words. Only kidding, Sorry, Sideburns. Chris and I used to eat the surplus candy, and I learned to only buy the really good stuff: Snickers, Mounds, and so on. It is very tempting!
Yep, save the chocolate and/or peanut butter ones for last. Mayhap a severe rainstorm will curtail the visitors earlier than usual, and the remainder will need some in-house attention! That’s the best part of this non-favorite occasion.
Remainder of the candy, naturally….
I understand that some diabetics keep a supply of the nearly pure sugar candies for low glucose emergencies. I’ve only ever had mine go overly low once when I exercised more than usual one day… and skipped my morning snack as well because I was exercising. Seeing a 58 on the monitor when I tested before lunch was a shock.
Since Janis has demonstrated the ability to stuff a cell phone into her bra/bikini top, what’s a tiny leaf?
Should it become a problem, as leaves continue to fall, Arlo could volunteer to help. I certainly would.