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I love Halloween. The creativity in the costumes and the talent and thinking outside the box on the pumpkin carving simply make me drool. Since our driveway is 650+ feet up a steep ridge line, and out away from town, we don’t have the hoards of trick or treaters we used to have. In some ways I miss it, even though one year we spent $200 on candy, not wanting to turn anyone away…
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One Halloween I’ll never forget my husband got a truly awful mask and put a pillow high on his back to make a humpback. He covered it with a big blanket. The first kids showed up and one little girl cried. My husband ripped off the mask to show her the monster wasn’t real and she agreed to forgive him, particularly since he gave her a candy bar. The word quickly spread and the whole neighborhood of kids HAD to visit ‘the house with the monster.” Our son, Brian, was scared of the ‘monster,’ too. Even when HE put the mask on and wasn’t happy until the mask went away. My husband had the time of his life that Halloween.
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I have fond memories (from went dinosaurs roamed) when we went trick or treating in groups of friends, without parents, having a blast. I went with a bunch of friends. We were gone until our sacks were bulging. We brought the candy home and my mom made us put it in the cupboard after choosing a couple of pieces to eat, doling out the rest until the end of the year.
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I always drooled over the costumes in the stores, but we never bought them. We always came up with costumes on our own, with funny hats, maybe a mask, borrowed shoes, oversized clothes, blankets, etc. It was fun to try to figure out what we could do that would be gory or funny.
I remember our family trying to carve a pumpkin one year. My parents were both only children who had never carved a pumpkin. We did the best we could, finally achieving a more or less classic look, after working ourselves to death and making a huge mess. Every year as our son grew up, I tried to carve one. I got a bit better each year, but never carved one I really thought looked good. I love seeing what really talented folks can do now.
Enjoy your celebration this year!
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