Happy Halloween
It is that time of year. A time of ghosts and goblins. Spooks wanting candy.
Halloween is here.
Some of my family members loved it. My Aunt put up house lights, yard decorations, inside decorations including a Halloween tree. My Uncle would dress up and loved to scare people. One year my brother thought it would be cool to set up a tube system that came down from the roof that the kids would put their bag under to catch the candy.
I thought it would be nice to put it all in one article. If one has a favorite Halloween song or a favorite scary movie.
Maybe what one does or did for the holiday, or what they use to do with their kids.
Anything goes, Halloween, this time of the year, etc.
Happy Halloween All !!
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I actually have these blacklight looking C9s I put on the house. Some yard things.
Think I will go easy this year though. Don't feel like messing with lights and all.
The neighbors love it though.
Of course I have to add...
Here's a cool Halloween house.
Skip to about the 5:00 mark to see what happens at night:
Leave it to NOLA. Haha That was great. Looking like it was on fire was wicked.
I made this a few years ago.
How neat Pat! What a great idea.
That was really good. I am not that creative. Haha
I am mostly lights. On the roof line, sidewalk.
Omigosh, that reminds me of a house that was three streets up from ours when I was growing up. I had to Google it to see if it was still there, and it is! We lived three streets away in a very modest, middle class area in Los Angeles. This Halloween house (which is what we all called it) was far more stately than anything around it. Beautifully kept. And they had a winding-ish stairway where they hung something different each year. It was the scariest shit ever. I mean that. They went all out, and I do mean all out. They'd invite people in, and the ones who were brave enough to enter always came out screaming. When I was five or six, my folks wouldn't even let me go up to the porch, although my older siblings could. After about 7, they'd let me go up on the porch with my brother and sister. My brother would go inside every year, but not my sister and me. They gave out the best candy and they were funnier than all get out. I wonder what happened to them? I'm sure they were lovely people ... on every other day of the year.
My Birthday is on Oct 30th, but, we always celebrated it on Halloween when I was young. And yes, every year I dressed like a Witch. Each year was a challenging experiment in designing my costume and makeup differently. My Mother was a great seamstress and she custom made my costumes so that no one else would like the same as me.
Each year I would donate my costume from the previous year to a program at our school that would give the costumes to the kids whose parents could not afford to make them of by them one.
Since my costumes were all custom made no one else in the school would have one like it, so that also made the little girl who wore it feel extra special. I made sure no one who had seen my costume before would tell where it came from, so it was a surprise for everyone else as well.
As I grew older, some people said I didn't need the costume to say what I was. (big grin)
As you know Mueller conducted a "witch hunt" at the White House.
He found one!
Great post! And so very spot on! (hee hee hee)
You can't prove that was me...
One of the family was born on Christmas. We always did her birthday on Christmas eve. I kind of felt bad for her sometimes as during that time, kind of hard to have a party with friends.
Having it on Halloween sounds like you could have some fun with it.
My Paternal Grandmother was born on Christmas day, and when she was young they always gave her joint Birthday and Christmas gifts on Christmas day.
When I grew older I thought that was not fair, so I decided to have a special party to celebrate her Birthday before we had Christmas dinner and she had separate Birthday gifts. Her Birthday cake was the dessert after Christmas dinner so she could blow out the candles and make a wish. The first time we did it she cried, as she never had her own Birthday party in her life before. So it became a Family tradition from them on.
I did, and so did everyone who attended the party. We all came dressed in our Halloween costumes, and after eating a good cookout, we all went together to Trick or Treat. Then back to the house for cake and ice cream, and swapping our treats with everyone.
But, I had to save the popcorn ball for my Father. He got dibs on the popcorn ball, especially, when he had duty on Halloween. I always hoped I would get two of them so that I could have one and he would not know. (snicker)
You realize, of course, every time I see a popcorn ball I will remember this story of yours, Raven. Forever.
I am a popcorn lover of the first water, and it was soo hard for me to save the popcorn balls for my Father. But, he more than deserved them, so I gave them up with a big hug. (smile)
Every time I see a popcorn ball anymore I always think of my Father.
That's my sister's birthday too!
Happy Birthday to your Sister! when I was young I thought that Oct 30th must be an odd day and there were few people born on that day. But, over the years I was surprised to find so many people with that same Birth date. How fun!!
Oh, that's delish!
Halloween.......Almost as fun as Christmas !
The Nightmare before Christmas was GREAT !
This is how my house use to be decorated but since my husband passed I just don't have it in me to do it....this is just the outside...
I'm dyin' over here!! HILARIOUS!!!
Aw, it makes me miss him too, LIB. A lot. Love you tons. Cyberhugs ... long and tight.
He made the guillotine out of scrap wood, the barrel with the night of the living dead coming out of it and the box with the skeleton in it. And that is me on the porch in the witch costume
The toxic waste barrel is awesome
Oh, that stuff is good! Was Halloween your only 'go-all-out' holiday, or did Christmas come in as a close second?
About even
That's just crazy awesome! Did you have red hair back then? There's a peek of a witch in the guillotine picture with what looks like red hair. You're just a bit of a thing! You realize that no one messes with shorter women. The shorter the woman, the sassier. My beloved Momma was 4'11" and she could stop us kids dead in our tracks with just a look. My much taller sainted Daddy never could get "the look" like my Mom did.
No, I did not at that time have red hair, it's the wig....And I'm 4'10" and my husband was 5'7"
I'm 69".
Height difference....my husband, my son and me
What are the odds???!?
What a great pic! I LOVE this picture. Oh lib. What a wonderful family. You must be so very proud.
Yes I was
That is great. Sorry to hear about your Hubby.
Love the barrel.
Rodeos have clowns in barrels.
That's damn impressive. Wow.
We used to take the kids trick or treating when we lived on base. At first we started out as a family, but the Princess was always in a hurry to get as much loot as possible, so we split up. I took the Princess and Mr G took The Boy.
One Halloween, P was in a real hurry and was being rude. She walked up to a porch (she was maybe 6?) and this older kid (around 10-11) was in her way and in a deep voice yelled MOVE!
I was mortified.
The kid wasted no time in getting out of her way.
I'm in love with that kid. All your kids. Dang, you did a stellar parenting job, that's for sure.
Thank-you. They did well in spite of me
Indeed. There had to be a time when one of them as toddlers said "fuck" for the first time. I remember that with my baby brother. I was 14 and he was 2. He said it and my mother shot me a look. I took that kid everywhere with me.
It was the word "asshole"
"Hey, Mom, is that guy an asshole, too?"
I had to go to confession
First time I had a bar of soap shoved in my mouth was when I called my older sister a bastard. I had no clue what the word meant but had heard it at school so went with it when she snuck a bite of my ice cream sandwich. It was years before I was able to not think about the taste of soap every time I saw an ice cream sandwich.
That bastard sister of yours should be told often, "way to ruin ice creams sandwiches for perpetuity for me!" Listen, whenever we're hangin' together, I'll eat your ice cream sandwich if you're served one. I'd take a bullet for ya too.
My son's first cuss word was a muttered "dammit."
I couldn't tell ya where he heard that
Haha. She knew what she wanted.
A Super Scary Halloween to all !
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I saw her when she first came out. She is weird.
I think she's GREAT !
I even watch her on youtube in the none English versions from overseas.
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This is a swamp creature I created a couple of years ago. Basically this is a PVC frame and a bunch of decorations.
Be careful Trump doesn't appoint it to some cabinet position,
but very creative
what thickness pvc 1.5 ?
The PVC varied in thickness from I believe 2" to 1/2", Plus I designed it to be taken apart for storage so certain parts have threaded joints.
The cool part is that it is free-standing and can handle heavy winds.
That is impressive.
Thanks. It was a fun project. We do Halloween big at our place - we throw an adult costume party every year. Thus we have quite a bit of interior and exterior decorations.
I'd run from that.
Very cool!
I love his feet.
The feet were designed in part to allow him to stand on his own. But I also had to complement those big hands (per advice from CobaltBlue
).
I live too far out to get any trick-or-treaters, and if I decorated, there would be nobody to appreciate it except me. I do like to drive around town and look at everyone else's Halloween decorations, though.
Our town has a pumpkin person contest - it can be scary, silly, sentimental (pumpkins made to look like folks well known around town, still with us or not). We won 3rd place last year, after deciding at the last minute to join in the fun. My hygienist is determined to take 1st place this year.
i'm not the most observant individual, but
have those numbers always been after your name ?
Yes, since NV.
again, i'm sorry as i don't recall you from NV, but i don't recall a lot from that turbulent time in my life.
NV was a good outlet for me to vent, much like News Talkers, but i was angrier then
The first weekend in October my boys and I would start off the month of Halloween by going to the pumpkin patch and choosing our pumpkins. We'd bring them home and carve them. I'd take the seeds and bake them with some spicy seasoning then warm up mugs of apple cider and we'd watch the Halloween Tree.
Every year I still watch the Halloween Tree but now by myself. It makes me happy and sad at the same time.
I don't think I have ever seen that. Will have to look for it.
I stumbled upon it years ago. It's neat because it touches on how several different cultures celebrate or influenced how we celebrate halloween. Leonard Nimoy is the voice of Mr. Moundshroud.
Happy Halloween !
Beautiful.
You were comment 69. If Al was here he would be proud. Haha
Ha !
Butt you added comment #70.
I guess you blew it.
I know, I know. Haha
alright, who owes who ?
happy halloween