bitflipper


I only observe one holiday a year: April Fool's Day. You don't have to dress up, decorate your yard or buy anyone a gift.

Once again Bitflipper is the voice of wisdom !

Everyday can be a holiday if you have the right frame of mind.

craigb


Everyday can be a holiday if you have the right frame of mind.

or no job.

paulo

craigb


Everyday can be a holiday if you have the right frame of mind.

or no job.

There is that...

I have absolutely no use for halloween. I tolerate Christmas, mostly because it has become a season rather than a holiday... by the time it gets here I am sick to death of it. I refuse to participate in labor day. My favorite hoilday is Thanksgiving... feast day!! I like independence day, July 4th. (Bugger off queenie)...

I have a real problem integrating Santa and baby Jesus. I have a real problem integrating a celebration of passover/resurecction and a bunny who hides eggs... so at Christmas I find it easiest to just go with Santa and the bunny at Easter/Passover. It truly bothers me to mix the two... but that's probaby just me. I do like me some turkey and dressing though!!

Halloween.. pfffft, though I did like it as a kid!!
I still buy 40 bucks worth of candy and give it out to the kids from other neighborhoods that get trucked in here from other neighborhoods.. I don't mind that, especially the really little ones, they are so special.

That reminds me of a story... about 25 years ago my parents set up two witches and a kettle and all the trimmings in their front yard for halloween. Then on halloween evening they removed the witches and dressed up in the witch costumes themselves. They stood still until the kids got really close and then they moved and spoke... there was a trail of candy across the front yard the next morning that the kids left while running away screaming.
 
My parents used to go all out with Christmas and halloween decorations, in the 1950s and 60s. Dad is 94 and mom will be 96 in Feb. My dad was raised by his mom and his great grandfather, a confederate veteran. (He still wont vote republican because it is "the party of Lincoln") My belly button is "where the yankee shot me". They still live in the house they built in the early 60s, it is amazing really. I plan to live until I am 134... all my life I have thought that I will live to be 134. I'm sure I will be quite intolerant by then. I wont even have to dress up for halloween by then, they can just put me on the porch in a chair... that should do it.

J

I love Halloween. We do a halloween tree every year, which is much funnier than a Christmas tree. You can get really creative w/ that stuff. Plus, I dig skulls, bats, tombstones and all. 

It coincides w/ a time of the year I used to love back home, with all the leaves turning orange and red and covering the streets and sidewalks. I'll certainly miss it this year. Palms and a blue sky aren't exactly halloween-y.


And Christmas w/o snow will always be a bit weird.

Rain
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It coincides w/ a time of the year I used to love back home, with all the leaves turning orange and red and covering the streets and sidewalks.

Spoken like a man who never had to clear up the the freakin' leaves ! ;)

Give me evergreens and warm sun anytime !

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paulo

Rain
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It coincides w/ a time of the year I used to love back home, with all the leaves turning orange and red and covering the streets and sidewalks.

Spoken like a man who never had to clear up the the freakin' leaves ! ;)

Give me evergreens and warm sun anytime !

Clear them up?! That would go against my aesthetic sensibilities. ;)


Though I guess it's cool to still be able to enjoy spending time outside at night w/o freezing.

There's something really creepy about halloween.

We normally just leave the lights off and close the door to the front room and ignore the ones who still knock on the door to a dark house...... 

But I have given some thought to dressing up in old ragged clothes, putting on my zombie mask and wearing my rasta man hat with the dreads and setting on the front porch swing motionless.... until the little kiddies come walking to the door only feet away from where I would be setting...... then "coming to life" ..... I think it would be hilarious.....

But with so many folks these days carrying concealed ..... I don't know if such a plan would be intelligent at all..... I think the good old days of practical joking like that are gone.... people these days don't seem to have a very good sense of humor....