Three days to Halloween
This weekend we will turn the clocks back an hour. The old saying goes ‘spring ahead, fall back’. My husband kidded me and said he will be getting up at 4:00 a.m. instead of 5:00 a.m. until he gets use to the change. Sure this was just a joke on his part or so I hope. I have no problem with the fall time change, but in the spring it takes me at least a week to adjust.
With this being Halloween week, I have come to the conclusion, that like when a full moon approaches, people seem to be going a tad crazy. The past few days, the drivers on the road just are a bit more reckless. Is there something in the air that is making them this way? It not only were those driving motor vehicles but those on bikes were just as bad; yesterday I almost got run over by a man in a golf cart when I was walking to my car from the post office.
Halloween falling on a weekend may be a problem. Trick-or-treaters will be out in full force all day long into the night. I recall as a kid going out Saturday in the afternoon, returning home for supper then going back out till at least 8:00 pm. This means one thing, make sure you have a supply of treats on hand.
As I look forward to the day of dressing up in a costume, I have yet decided what to wear. Looks like tomorrow I will be searching my closet to pull something together that can pass for going out to a party and wear to the store at the same time. Not like I have not gone into stores dressed at Christmas time in my Ms. Santa outfit; and no I do not plan to be Ms. Santa for Halloween. My husband already has his outfit planned, in fact he planned his attire in June.
A few web sites have been helpful in providing insight to costumes from items from the closet. All one needs is a good imagination and there you have it a costume to wear on October 31st. I remember a few years ago, I pulled together a costume in a matter of a few hours, a fifties female outfit. I now use that outfit for when there is a Fifties Night at one of the veterans clubs.
Whatever you decide, costume or no costume, Halloween is not just for kids anymore. More and more adults get into the fun of dressing up, if only to pass out treats at home.
Until next time…..remember to have fun….have lots of treats and if there are left over the next day…I am sure someone will gladly take them off your hands.
WITCHY NIGHT OUT
©Scottie-ann Murphy
Witches fly overhead in the starry moonlit sky
Driving brooms that are sturdy and thick
Many don’t like automatic models
They prefer to drive a stick
Crackling loudly as they land on the street
Park their ride at the curb near the meter
The enchantresses hurry inside to the candle lit club
Where they will encounter night boogie fever
Drinking a cauldron brew colored deep blood red
Made with cranberries, frogs and eyes from newts
The band will play a slow haunting melody
As the sorceresses dance with monstrous brutes
The patrons are having a wonderful evening
At the place called “The Frank-n-Stein Dive”
Witches always celebrate quite responsibly
And they never drink and then drive
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