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Halloween 2024

Dannydet

Dannydet

Danny D Graphic Designer
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Anyone celebrating Halloween tonight?
I'll be watching the Charlie Brown Halloween...
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I'll be at home and hopefully have some trick or treaters by. Their number declines yearly it seems. It was always one of my favorite holidays. I wasn't a big candy eater... it was the excitement in the air and the tom foolery that went on that made it fun. I tried my best to make it special for my children. I always dressed up and went with them. We always carved pumpkins and stuffed old clothes with straw to decorate the house. Great memories!

At least in my area, the holiday has turned commercial. Lots of people are decorating their homes with purchased lights, huge spiderwebs and spiders, skeletons of ever size imaginable, and mummies and the like. It looks cool and I'm not knocking it. I just hope they are home tonight and handing out candy. The holiday should be for the kids.
 
The wife said we had an even dozen tricksters by tonight. They were all middle school age or older. Good kids, having fun, and wearing costumes on a cold night. Oh how things have changed since I was a kid. It was a continuous line of kids going from house to house. You had best be home handing out the goodies or you were slated to be soaped or TP'd. Now a dozen kids walking my dark block that had maybe five porchlights on. A sad turn of events.
Instead of roaming the streets, trunk or treat sites have become popular here.
I just brought up my local online city news and there were 15 sites, mostly Churches, over the last four days handing out candy at their establishments.
It's likely more safe for the kids, the lazy ass parents don't have to roam the city with their children, and the establishments bring citizen awareness to their place and kind gesture. I see the good in it but sure miss the way the holiday was once celebrated.
 
I didn't even bother buying candy, not one person came to my house. I've had no trick or treaters for years now and live smack in the middle of suburbia USA. I think they all go to the local malls or schools for a fun/safe night out. I took the neighbor's dog for a walk early and there were kids with parents walking to the elementary school in the 'hood. Times sure have changed, when I was a kid the streets were packed with huge groups, not any more.
 
Actually we went to a pumpkin patch off upper town out of here.
It was fun photographing over 100 pumpkin carvings, my sister just kept on driving slowly so I can
snapshot a few of them...
 
The holiday isn't as dead around here as I described. My son went up town and took his grand and my great grandkids trick or treating. My granddaughter lives in an upscale area that has a lot of children. Most of the addition was handing out candy and there were lines of kids waiting to get their share. I feel better.
It's true that my area was once filled with little guys but it's mostly just old farts like me living here now. They even closed the local grade school a few years back. A lack of kids will certainly limit the number of trick or treaters.
 
We had the least amount of treaters we've ever had since we've lived here ( 22 years ). Rain probably had a factor, but I think alot of it is most of the kids in the neighborhoods around here are grown up and past the treating stage.
 
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