I know Halloween has evolved from a Celtic Harvest Feast into
plain ridiculousness into a potentially-dangerous holiday. I applaud schools'
efforts to keep kids from trick-or-treating to keep them safe from sick people
and getting hit by cars in the dark. In our town, residents are encouraged not
to answer their doors on Halloween to encourage trick-or-treaters to indulge
in the safer, supervised environment at the school.
Halloween
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Halloween
1996 at the Farmer's Market
Halloween
1996 at the Farmer's Market
...we like to dress up and say "Hi" to the neighbors! So every
October 29th or 30th, we dress up and the whole family goes treat-or-treating.
Since it's not Halloween, the neighbors don't hesitate to open the doors, and
when they do, we squeal "Treat or treat" and give them candy! It's fun!
We'll just use any excuse to dress up weird (like we need an excuse!).
And I must admit, there's something to be said for Halloween...
1. You don't HAVE to send cards, you only do it if you want to.
2. If you don't take time to bake exquisite cookies you're not sent to Martha
Stewart's Reform Camp. This is a good thing.
3. If you're grouchy at and around the holiday, you aren't instantly labelled
a grinchy Scrooge.
4. Great Aunt Prissy won't have a hissy if you don't want to spend a million
dollars on airfare, or a million whiny Are we there yeeeeeeeeet?s to
drive halfway across the country to eat with her.
5. Society doesn't expect you to celebrate it in any traditional form...you
celebrate any way you want.
6. Commercialism doesn't pressure you to give more gifts than necessary with
money you don't have.
7. You aren't expected to slave in the kitchen to create a Martha Stewart-inspired
meal for your (sometimes ungrateful) relatives.
8. You aren't expected to spend it with family...spend it however you
want with whomever you want.
9. Slapping a dead tree in your living room or a dead bird on your table is
optional.
10. Nobody gets into fights over who's going to eat what, at what time at whom's
house...
Quite frankly I think we need MORE holidays that meet this description! That's why my favorite holiday is St. Patrick's Day, and why I certainly understand why Halloween is Helen's!
Any time is the right time to go batty, because here in the thistle patch we're batty about bats.
We hope you enjoy your visit.
* Garden Xeriscaping
& Gramma * Gloomy Grumpy Young Grampa
* Teddy Bear Wars * Young
Grampa vs. The Squirrels * Celebrating the
Seasons * Hundred Acre Wood
* Dandelion Appreciation * Virtual
Tea Party * Green Eggs & Hams * Whoville
* The Zoo
* Like Cats & Dogs * Hedgehogs
* Helen
* Chocolate * The
Biscuit of Ally McBeal
* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy * Wes
Stoops Memorial * The Galaxy Song
* Calvin & Hobbes Philosophy * Q *
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