Halloween

[Bilgerat]

I'm ready for the little bastards!

Stand by for a broadside!




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[Gunny]

I'm ready for the little bastards!

Stand by for a broadside!




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Make sure you get those damned teenagers roaming around with pillowcases. :laugh:

[Christie Brinkley]

Will be shutting the blinds and curtains as usual this Halloween;):laugh:

[Gunny]

Will be shutting the blinds and curtains as usual this Halloween;):laugh:

I started doing that because of the aforementioned. Five or 6 teens at a time with pillowcases demanding candy. I like the little toddlers with the plastic pumpkins. We quit doing Trick or Treat by about 11, IIRC. If you're 18 years old and trick or treating you SERIOUSLY need to get a life.

[Christie Brinkley]

I started doing that because of the aforementioned. Five or 6 teens at a time with pillowcases demanding candy. I like the little toddlers with the plastic pumpkins. We quit doing Trick or Treat by about 11, IIRC. If you're 18 years old and trick or treating you SERIOUSLY need to get a life.
I know the people knocking my door are not 5-12 year olds they are 16-21 year old thugs wanting something to eat. No thanks!

[jimnyc]

My brother is coming over for the weekend, time to have some fun. Sadly, the numbers are getting lower and lower yearly. I like when the little ones come to the door. :) But anyone over 12... I'll be tricking or treating them! :laugh:

[WiccanLiberal]

We have no large numbers of kids in the area and our apartment has an entrance at the back of the bullding so none at all here. My problem is gonna be conducting a religious service when I know the World Series is on. Gonna miss at least the first couple innings.

[jimnyc]

We have no large numbers of kids in the area and our apartment has an entrance at the back of the bullding so none at all here. My problem is gonna be conducting a religious service when I know the World Series is on. Gonna miss at least the first couple innings.

Times have changed. I remember walking around with my pillow case when younger, and having to go home to empty it in order to go out again. We would walk through like 3 townships, and every road we went on had gangs of kids walking around in their costumes. Now I get barely anyone, and if I go drive around, you just don't see as much anymore. :(

[Gunny]

My brother is coming over for the weekend, time to have some fun. Sadly, the numbers are getting lower and lower yearly. I like when the little ones come to the door. :) But anyone over 12... I'll be tricking or treating them! :laugh:

If you have base housing you can get to, it's still cool. Most Navy bases are open bases. I always took my kids to base housing. Sadly, trick or treat became trick or damage right about the time Civil Rights started. Kind of like trolls on a board .. just someone out to screw up everyone else's fun for no reason.

[Gunny]

We have no large numbers of kids in the area and our apartment has an entrance at the back of the bullding so none at all here. My problem is gonna be conducting a religious service when I know the World Series is on. Gonna miss at least the first couple innings.

All Hallow's Eve, huh?

[Gunny]

Times have changed. I remember walking around with my pillow case when younger, and having to go home to empty it in order to go out again. We would walk through like 3 townships, and every road we went on had gangs of kids walking around in their costumes. Now I get barely anyone, and if I go drive around, you just don't see as much anymore. :(

Because we all grow up and our kids move. I noticed the same in regard to school closings. Most people no longer stay in the neighborhoods they were raised in. They take their kids and go leaving only the older people.

[jimnyc]

Because we all grow up and our kids move. I noticed the same in regard to school closings. Most people no longer stay in the neighborhoods they were raised in. They take their kids and go leaving only the older people.

Well hell, aren't other kids supposed to be born to replace the ones growing up? LOL We do have a lot of kids here, a tons of schools in this district alone. Try crossing the roads at 3-4pm, they are like little cockroaches everywhere!!

[WiccanLiberal]

All Hallow's Eve, huh?

It's Samhain (pronounced SOW-wen) and it's the end of the harvest and thus the end of the old year and the start of the new. It's a time to discard what no longer helps us and quiet down and listen to the silence. It's about honoring our ancestors and getting ready to face the waiting time of winter. Even though I live in a suburban setting, my holidays follow the rhythm of the old agricultural calendar. I don't have a crop to harvest but I have fully cleaned my home and thrown out the unnecessary and made sure I have my space the way I need it to get me through the winter.


Oh BTW you do know Halloween candy is cursed right? It has a spell....if you eat it, it makes you fat. LOL

[Gunny]

Well hell, aren't other kids supposed to be born to replace the ones growing up? LOL We do have a lot of kids here, a tons of schools in this district alone. Try crossing the roads at 3-4pm, they are like little cockroaches everywhere!!

Sure, but look at the paradigm. Grow up, move out to a cookie cutter suburban neighborhood. Then you have the shift from trick or treat by younger children to Halloween parties because of the danger. When I was a kid we wandered everywhere by ourselves. Can't do that now. My daughter had a Marine escort when she went trick or treating. :)

[Gunny]

It's Samhain (pronounced SOW-wen) and it's the end of the harvest and thus the end of the old year and the start of the new. It's a time to discard what no longer helps us and quiet down and listen to the silence. It's about honoring our ancestors and getting ready to face the waiting time of winter. Even though I live in a suburban setting, my holidays follow the rhythm of the old agricultural calendar. I don't have a crop to harvest but I have fully cleaned my home and thrown out the unnecessary and made sure I have my space the way I need it to get me through the winter.


Oh BTW you do know Halloween candy is cursed right? It has a spell....if you eat it, it makes you fat. LOL

There's no calling an end to the season until the tomatoes my GF planted turn red. So you need to :witchbroom:and cast a spell and make that happen, woman. :laugh:

[WiccanLiberal]

There's no calling an end to the season until the tomatoes my GF planted turn red. So you need to :witchbroom:and cast a spell and make that happen, woman. :laugh:


Just put them, spaced out so they don't touch, in a cool dark place, low humidity.
http://www.pickyourown.org/greentomatoeshowtostoreandripen.php

And what's wrong with the green ones? Fried they are great.

[Gunny]

Just put them, spaced out so they don't touch, in a cool dark place, low humidity.
http://www.pickyourown.org/greentomatoeshowtostoreandripen.php

And what's wrong with the green ones? Fried they are great.

Don't know but it'd be a waste. I got at least 2 dozen of them on the vine.

[sundaydriver]

Well another Halloween came & went with no trick or treaters. In 39 years I've had exactly 1 kid come to the house. The next door neighbors brought their Great Grandson over about 5 years ago. My first house the little Boro I was in had done away with Trick or Treat and had a party for the kids at the Firehouse instead. My next 2 homes were too rural so we go to my Parents house to see the kids and hand out some candy.

I'm surprised some of the cranks on here that don't like the kids coming around aren't handing out lemons to the kids telling them that's life. :laugh:

[Gunny]

Well another Halloween came & went with no trick or treaters. In 39 years I've had exactly 1 kid come to the house. The next door neighbors brought their Great Grandson over about 5 years ago. My first house the little Boro I was in had done away with Trick or Treat and had a party for the kids at the Firehouse instead. My next 2 homes were too rural so we go to my Parents house to see the kids and hand out some candy.

I'm surprised some of the cranks on here that don't like the kids coming around aren't handing out lemons to the kids telling them that's life. :laugh:




We didn't have a whole lot, but we got some traffic. I looked at my GF like WTF with one bowl of candy. That crap's gone in 30 minutes most places I've lived. We also had no mobs of older teens here.

Was kind of sad though that everyone required parental escorts. Society has changed a LOT. Used to be you could count on the neighbors to watch out for your children. Now you have to worry which ones are predators.

[sundaydriver]

We didn't have a whole lot, but we got some traffic. I ooked at my GF like WTF with one bowl of candy. That crap's gone in 30 minutes most places I've lived. We also had no mobs of older teens here.

Was kind of sad though that everyone required parental escorts. Society has changed a LOT. Used to be you could count on the neighbors to watch out for your children. Now you have to worry which ones are predators.

Sad how things have changed. The hours for Trick or Treat around here are daylight hours only. 2-5 PM. The days of us kids getting together and going unescorted in the dark to homes where we knew everyone are just a memory.

[Gunny]

Sad how things have changed. The hours for Trick or Treat around here are daylight hours only. 2-5 PM. The days of us kids getting together and going unescorted in the dark to homes where we knew everyone are just a memory.

To me, only in daylight hours takes a lot of the fun out of it. Kind of takes the edge off the jack o lanterns. I don't know if they have official hours here, but the porch light went off at 9. Sharp. I didn't ask. I did Halloween only once when I owned my house. All we got was mobs of older teens. Get a job and buy your own candy. Here, it was all little kids, so I was cool with it.

And one little boy must have been a mini-me. They had a glow stick around his neck so they could track him in the dark. :laugh2: