This isn't strictly about the farm, so I guess I'm doing what's called "hijacking" my own blog to post other stuff. But that's okay, because it's my blog and I get to make the rules.
Tonight was probably the most fun I have had without leaving home in a long time.
And what was so fun about tonight, you ask?
Well, it all started because my daughter has this fixation with vampires and dying her amazing red hair black. Normally I am not the kind of parent that allows my kids to dye their hair and pierce their body and wear "whatever" they see fit in a state of teenage rebellion. But tonight, is an exception. Halloween is all about dressing up and pretending to be something else.
So, we bought the fangs and the face paint and the hair paint. And she borrowed a dress from my mom so she could be a vampire maid.
No, I really have no idea where that came from. She's 16. Where do any ideas of 16 year olds come from?
And this was the outcome!
Since my porch light needs to be rewired (something I lack the skills to do myself and the funds to have hired done) we decided that Morgan would sit out on the deck with the pumpkins lit and two of the torches burning and she could hand out candy from there. It was great and both the people next door and the people across the street had on their lights so the kids were scooting past our house anyway.
Morgan sat perfectly still with the bowl in her lap as countless kids came by, and as soon as they would get in front of her, she would ask them if they wanted some candy. Screams pierced the neighborhood as one after the other grabbed for the bowl. They told us they didn't think she was real or that it looked really creepy. At one point two little boys about 9 or 10 stood in the middle of the street daring each other to go first and walk up to our deck. We even had parents get out of their cars and come up to talk because they thought it was such a hoot.
Then the boy from the corner house came by ... after running off from us three or four times because he was too scared to come over. But once he did and then stopped to talk to us, he decided he was going to start stalking kids at his house. He hid behind a bush and when they got close he followed them quietly in the dark and then he would just suddenly touch them.
More screams echoed through the block.
And that's what Halloween should be!! Fright night done right!! I haven't enjoyed something this much in ages.
Most of our life is filled with everyday mundane chores of getting on with life. Gardening, farming, taking care of all the animals, working outside jobs to make ends meet - it's all time consuming, labor intensive, mind numbingly dull stuff. Day after day after day. And no matter how much we love our gardens or our animals, some days we just have to kick off our shoes, throw out the rules, do chores early, and have a little fun.
And this was fun!
Next year Morgan's talking about dressing up like a mummy and laying against the hay bale with the candy bowl cradled in her arm and groaning at people as they come up. We'll see ...
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