September 28, 2016

  • Looking Forward to Halloween

    Halloween is one of those holidays that is either hated or loved. Some people attach Christian beliefs and others attach pagan beliefs to the night. Overall I think of it as a night for kids to have fun and dress up and get their fill of candy. When my sons were little I would decorate the house. I had black sponges cut out like bats that I would hand from the ceiling. We had a big plastic skeleton on the front door. I would put the candy in a big aluminum pot and wear a witch's hat to hand it out to trick-or-treaters. By the time we got Ranger-dog the boys were nearly too old to dress up and beg for candy. He was a terror and we'd have to put him upstairs or in the basement until the candy was passed out. By the time the boys were going to college, Ranger had mellowed. But by then we weren't really participating in the whole Halloween madness. But I still kind of like to dress up. At work we dress up a little - I have a couple of black and orange scrub outfits that I wear with Halloween themed scrub jackets. And I'll wear my bat pin and my headband with the black cat ears... But I digress.

    The point of this post was to show you all what I found at a garage sale. Now Ranger is gone but I still will see things and think "Wow. Ranger would have worn that. I could have made greeting cards.." Anyway, I was digging through a bin and found some dog costumes. There was a bat - the ears were sewn on a hood that fastened under the chin and it had eyes on top the head. It came with little doggie leg warmers in black and purple. There was the green wig in a Marilyn Monroesque style. The rainbow mohawk looked cute at least on the photo of the Pug on the package. But what really caught my eye were the collars. I couldn't resist. I thought of saintvi and the dogs in her life - Boo and Jack. When I asked how much the collars cost (since I was debating on which one to get) and the woman running the sale said, "Twenty-five cents." I couldn't help myself. I bought 4. I think they will look so cute.

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    Bats!

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    Spiders!!

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    These are a little bigger and I hope they aren't too big for the boys.

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    A perfect motif for Boo - those skull and crossbones are not just for show! But Sparky forgives him completely. And the bite has healed and there is just a dark scar and it is fading....

Comments (10)

  • Somehow those collars will help the boys immensely with Halloween and its oddities :-) !

    Halloween is not my favorite -- I usually darken the house and hide (with the dogs, if I had any!)

    • We haven't seen the hoards of kids that used to come through. I will be out of town on Halloween again this year which gives Sparky free reign to hand out candy - which he will do!

  • We don't usually have trick-or-treaters out here. I buy some candy to give the grand-kids if they stop by. When we lived in So. Ca. we had as many as 300. That took a lot of candy!

    • I stopped giving out candy when the number of neighborhood kids were outnumbered by van loads of kids from other cities where they had trick-or-treated the night before!!

  • I like the after holiday half price chocolate.

  • I am wondering if we'll dress up at the V.A. for Hallowe'en? If so, I'll wear my Cowgirl hat, fringed vest, etc. and my high boots too.

  • quite the collection of Halloween stuff! Have fun ~

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