Hi! So, it's my last weekend here in Fallon, mother-fucking boring as fuck Nevada and I figured on telling you all in preparations of Halloween. Here's some traditions myself and my family had always done. Some of them may be typical, others my be a little different. But that's okay, because it's just a Holliday.
1. I remember back when I was a kid, my parents house use to be cobwebs, and spiders and hanging skeletons in the trees. These days, I make shift either the whole house or a specific room into hanging body parts, blood on the mirrors, decals on windows, festive tape, and other cool stuff. It's like when Christmas rolls around and we bust out the garland, the tree, snow flake cut outs and little baby Jesus in a nativity scene. Practically the same concept in my house hold and yes, it goes kid friendly to gore when you get to the bathroom.
2. As and adult now I feel my childhood was cheated. I'm sure other adults will agree with me. There's something a little more fun about going to an actual Pumpkin Patch and 'hunting' for YOUR PUMPKIN. Unlike Wal-Mart, you get this choice of pumpkins by what they provide. Good luck! No, I don't think so. I like the adventure, and 'hunt' of a pumpkin in the fields. There's a kind of magic involved with finding your new pumpkin for the year. Unlike rummaging through a big box at the local store. Personally I've found white pumpkins, orange pumpkins, long pumpkins and thin pumpkins. Yes, I've taken them all home too. Point is, I like going to a pumpkin patch.
3. Carving Pumpkins and Roasting Pumpkin Seeds have been a staple to my life. The fun part about being a kid and adult is feeling the inner guts of the pumpkin while prepping for a good carving. And if you're fortunate with one person not enjoying pulling out the guts, the other can just simply rinse off the seeds and begin prepping them for a nice bake in the oven. Later, you both can wait on the seeds and start planing on the face of a Jack-o-Lantern. Which has an awesome tradition as well.
Back in the good old Irish days there use to be a prankster by the name of Jack. He had tricked the Devil twice before he died. However in Irish tradition when the Devil and God do not want you, you're stuck in a fog world and can only use a burning sulfur rock as a light. Well, he eventually found a guard and began carving a face on it and placed his sulfur rock in it. This became known as a Jack O'Lantern.
Granted my parents never told me this story when I was a kid. Knowing it now, I've told it to my two nephews and my niece. It's a cool Halloween story, there's nothing creepy about it. It's about as traditional as the Three Wise Men and the Drummer Boy.
Though this pretty much goes in a separate category but Candy Apples, and all the foods you can manipulate to look gorse as hell! LOVE IT! Last year Zoe made a 'Kitty Litter Cake' topped off with tootsie rolls shaped like little shits and a sterilized poop scoop.
4. Horror Flicks have been a staple to Halloween like "A Christmas Story" is to Christmas. Point here, there's nothing more fun than being over visually stimulated and then getting scared by Freddy, Jason, Michael and many other boogiemen who've become staples in American Horror.
5. I remember one time being threatened to not go Trick Or Treating because I was acting up as a kid. Which of course made me change my tune a little. But it felt like I was given the ultimatum of Santa not stopping by my house on Christmas! Anyway, there's nothing like being dressed up as anything you want and going door to door getting candy. If I remember from tradition, people believed spirits would walk the earth and haunt the streets. Personally, what's better than bribing kids to scare the spirits away and rewarding with a sugar high? Provided, saying 'Trick or Treat' use to mean something. Literally, give me a treat or I'll trick you person holding out on my candy. I really don't know of anyone who's really played a trick on anyone on Halloween on a basis of candy. But I can only guess it use to happen and now it's just tongue and cheek.
Now, as an adult I get two parts to this tradition. One, my nephew JJ, I would walk him all over the neighborhood and come back with a pillow sack of candy. I'd take 10% from the hoard. The best part, I got to dress up too! So, I felt like a kid even at the age of 20. The other side being the part where I'm still dressed up and at home answering the door for Trick Or Treaters. I've seen some cool costumes and .... some very 'interesting' ones too... And personally, I like to play favorites when handing out my candy. Personally dressing up as Kurt Cobain's Ghost doesn't 'surprise' me.
1. I remember back when I was a kid, my parents house use to be cobwebs, and spiders and hanging skeletons in the trees. These days, I make shift either the whole house or a specific room into hanging body parts, blood on the mirrors, decals on windows, festive tape, and other cool stuff. It's like when Christmas rolls around and we bust out the garland, the tree, snow flake cut outs and little baby Jesus in a nativity scene. Practically the same concept in my house hold and yes, it goes kid friendly to gore when you get to the bathroom.
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| I made a Jack O'Lantern. |
3. Carving Pumpkins and Roasting Pumpkin Seeds have been a staple to my life. The fun part about being a kid and adult is feeling the inner guts of the pumpkin while prepping for a good carving. And if you're fortunate with one person not enjoying pulling out the guts, the other can just simply rinse off the seeds and begin prepping them for a nice bake in the oven. Later, you both can wait on the seeds and start planing on the face of a Jack-o-Lantern. Which has an awesome tradition as well.
Back in the good old Irish days there use to be a prankster by the name of Jack. He had tricked the Devil twice before he died. However in Irish tradition when the Devil and God do not want you, you're stuck in a fog world and can only use a burning sulfur rock as a light. Well, he eventually found a guard and began carving a face on it and placed his sulfur rock in it. This became known as a Jack O'Lantern.
Granted my parents never told me this story when I was a kid. Knowing it now, I've told it to my two nephews and my niece. It's a cool Halloween story, there's nothing creepy about it. It's about as traditional as the Three Wise Men and the Drummer Boy.
Though this pretty much goes in a separate category but Candy Apples, and all the foods you can manipulate to look gorse as hell! LOVE IT! Last year Zoe made a 'Kitty Litter Cake' topped off with tootsie rolls shaped like little shits and a sterilized poop scoop.
4. Horror Flicks have been a staple to Halloween like "A Christmas Story" is to Christmas. Point here, there's nothing more fun than being over visually stimulated and then getting scared by Freddy, Jason, Michael and many other boogiemen who've become staples in American Horror.
5. I remember one time being threatened to not go Trick Or Treating because I was acting up as a kid. Which of course made me change my tune a little. But it felt like I was given the ultimatum of Santa not stopping by my house on Christmas! Anyway, there's nothing like being dressed up as anything you want and going door to door getting candy. If I remember from tradition, people believed spirits would walk the earth and haunt the streets. Personally, what's better than bribing kids to scare the spirits away and rewarding with a sugar high? Provided, saying 'Trick or Treat' use to mean something. Literally, give me a treat or I'll trick you person holding out on my candy. I really don't know of anyone who's really played a trick on anyone on Halloween on a basis of candy. But I can only guess it use to happen and now it's just tongue and cheek.
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| Halloween a couple of years back. All the kids ganged up on me! |
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