Hereās a version of Spooky Scary Skeletons I particularly like:
Happy Nevada Day, yāall!
And hereās a pre-Halloween event held yesterday . . .
Though they may just be Utahns dressed up as sheep.
they used to herd cattle down Virginia Street here, past the casinos, during the annual rodeo ā iām not sure if they still do that or not, actually. Iāve lived here 30 years and iāve never been to the rodeo, either, but iām not a big rodeo fan.
Dark indeed. I tried watching that a few years ago. I could not make it through. Stopped when something bad was happening to Pluto, as I recall.
Zero trick-or-treaters last night. I guess itās just not a thing anymore. We live in a neighborhood with lots of kids and a school just down the street, so itās not because weāre in some out of the way place. Kinda a relief, but also kinda sad.
I meant to stay up late watching horror movies and then reading my Stephen King book, but instead I fell asleep super-early. Woke up early this morning to a nice snowfall though.
Anyway, since Halloween itself kinda whiffed, Iām just going to keep on with my horror movie marathon tonight. Itās not the date that matters, itās the feeling.
We didnāt have as many as usual but over a dozen, Iād say, counting each kid in a group. We once had about 40!
In 23 years, we have never had a trick or treater, but we are in the country, and itās a long driveway, looks scary at night, and no kid is walking half a mile for a single house.
But, Iāve visited my folks on Halloween, and I do enjoy giving away candy. My mother does not cheap out, so all the kids stop at her house.
When we were kids, our house was in a lower income neighborhood, so I would visit a friend in the ritzy area for trick or treating. Her dad was a dentist.
In the many years since then, they built a lot of apartments down the road from my folksā neighborhood, many low income. So now, their house IS in the nice neighborhood to go for Halloween candy. The house is across the street from the elementary school, where my sister is a teacher, so everyone knows thatās where Grandma CleverEmi lives, and that she is nice and gives good candy.
we had so many i lost count, but i bet it was easily 50 or more. last year we had a dozen, i think. This year i offered kids a choice between candy or a potato, and i almost ran out of potatoes.
What do kids do with potatoes? I gather from tumblr that potatoes are a thing but I donāt get it
i honestly donāt know what they do with them. i admit i was afraid to find a bunch of potatoes in the yard the next morning, but nope. in my head, they take them home and have their parents make hash browns out of them in the morning, haha.
That would be a most excellent use of potatoes!
all you really need is some hair spray in the pipe before you put in the potato and a hole covered in tape at the back until you stick a grill lighter in.