October 30, 2014

• Halloween

  I think my favorite Halloween memory is the year our middle son dressed up like an old old man.  He wore a bald head we had bought at an auction.  It was in a box with a bunch of other stuff.  We still have it somewhere.  He was maybe 12 or 13 at the time.  He stood all hunched over with a cane.  We went to a contest at the fire station and he won a prize.  When he came back to sit by me I had to remind myself that he was my son and not an old man.  He was that convincing.

  I never did like gross or scary stuff.  I think it goes back to when I was a little girl and my dad would listen to mysteries on the radio at night.  There was only a curtain between my bedroom (which originally was a dining room) and the living room.  He listened to programs like "The Shadow."  I still don't like scary music.

  So I never dressed in a scary costume for Halloween.  Mostly I went dressed as a gypsy because that's all I could think of.  I always had full skirts and peasant blouses to wear, and my mother let me borrow her jewelry.   In those days all the kids went trick-or-treating.  It wasn't a dark holiday like it seems to be now.  I have mixed feelings about Halloween now.  Regardless, I bought some candy, and am hoping to see some of my grand-kids tomorrow night.  We live kind of out in the country, so we don't have any neighbor kids come.

  I didn't even carve a pumpkin this year.  I have a big one on the front steps, but it wouldn't sit up straight, so I cut a bit off the bottom, and of course, it started to rot.  I started to carve the little pie pumpkin, but it was so hard I gave up.

  

   

  

  This leaf picture was blurry. I played with it on Picasa, and this is what I decided on.
  Happy Halloween to all my friends.

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