The best part about living in the wilderness is that I don't have to worry about trick or treaters coming here on Halloween. They'd need mountain climbing equipment, scythes for cutting through the weeds, and probably a team of huskies. Let the little bastards bother somebody else.
What a rotten thing to say, Jon. You were a child once - weren't you?
Hell, I acted forty when I was twelve. I never begged for candy at unfamiliar houses.
Anyway, Halloween is completely different from what it used to be. It has been rudely usurped by the politically correct. 99 per cent of the costumes are now deemed "offensive". I don't even think you can be a ghost anymore. It might offend a corpse.
Candy is no longer the preferred treat to give. I just heard some self-righteous spoil-sport on the news advising us to give "healthy" treats - like raisins and carrot sticks.
Hey lady, how'd you like a carrot stick up your *** ??
I want Halloween to be like it was meant to be:
kids wearing flammable costumes and eating candy until their teeth fall out - - and bobbing for apples in a filthy tub of germ-infested water.
Soaping windows, slashing tires on cars, and putting garden hoses through front door mail slots to flood unsuspecting living rooms.
You're deviously weird, Jon - to the brink of lunacy.
I'm a realist who yearns for the good ol' days. Halloween has become too damn sanitized.
So what will you be doing on Halloween, Jon?
I'll be home blessedly alone. I have a pizza, cider, oatmeal cookies, and a Mississippi Mud Cake.
And I just might watch an old horror flick.
I went for a walk in the woods this afternoon and took a few photos. Savoring the last day of my favorite month. The good thing is I don't have to go far. I just open the back door and walk a few yards.
BTW - the top photo on this post is my cat Scratch (Kitzee) when I first got her. She was three months old. That was in October, 2005.
This is my Mississippi mud cake.
Hawks fly around here very frequently but it's difficult to get a photo. I took this one this morning.
Happy Halloween -
and may all your encounters with spooks be pleasant ones.
Jon
