Halloween Journal #2

 

Halloween Journal Prompt#2 Name the pros and cons of fall.

Winding country road with headlights, autumn trees, and frosty fields

The  Cons of the Fall:

The fall is dark and cold, the roads are icy and slick.

The Fall adds a sinister touch to candle light and the sky looks bruised and sickly and no matter how brightly the Sun shines, it doesn’t do anything to warm anyone’s bones.

The  frost  that follows the Fall can  kill a persons toes or nose or fingers as easily as it can kill your Begonias and Tomatoes and Gardenias

The Fall is dangerous. It is unpredictable and it  can be deadly.

You can hide in the warmest house and wear the coziest clothes and wrap yourself in blankets and drink warm , sweet drinks but you can’t escape the Fall.

It will wait outside for you to make your appearance all the way through the end of  Winter.

The Pros of the Fall:

The fall is dark and cold, the roads are icy and slick the walkway to your own front door can turn against you in the blink of an eye.

The Fall adds a sinister touch to candle light and the sky looks bruised and sickly and no matter how brightly the Sun shines, it doesn’t do anything to warm anyone’s bones.

The Fall adds a sinister touch to candle light.

The  frost  that follows the Fall can  kill a persons toes or nose or fingers as easily as it can kill your Begonias and Tomatoes and Gardenias

The Fall is dangerous. It is unpredictable and it  can be deadly.

You can hide in the warmest house and wear the coziest clothes and wrap yourself in blankets and drink warm , sweet drinks but you can’t escape the Fall.

It will

wait outside for you to make your appearance until the end of Winter.

Halloween Quote of The Day

“When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
’tis near Halloween.”
 Author Unknown

Snoopy- 4 Ever

WP Prompt: Daily writing prompt: Who is your favorite Cartoon Character?

 

He was calm.

he was cool

he was collected

under any circumstance he found himself in.

He was independent

He was a fighter pilot and an adventurer.

He is Snoopy.

Snoopy was my hero because he was fearless- he even slept outside in the dark all by himself.

Snoopy was also an astronaut in real life, sort of:

NASA – http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a10/a10.s69_32037.jpg
NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 10 mission to the Moon, with a Snoopy puppet at an April 1969 news conference. “Snoopy” was the name of the Apollo 10 lunar module. NASA photo S69-32037

The Lunar Lander from Apollo 10 had a nickname. It was called “Snoopy” after the dog in the Peanuts comic strip, by Charles Schulz. NASA thought that giving the lander and the command module names from the popular comic strip would help kids be interested in the mission. (The command module was called “Charlie Brown.”) Snoopy was sent off to orbit the Sun without another thought, and nobody thought to keep track of it.

In 2019  group of amateur astronomers in the UK thought they may have found Snoopy but I never saw an update, so Snoopy is still out there somewhere.

For the curious, this is what NASA’s Snoopy looks like:

he ascent stage from Apollo 10’s lunar module “Snoopy” as it was photographed orbiting the moon in May 1969. (NASA)

To be honest though, when I think about ” Snoopy ” in space I see this:

and nothing will take that image of my Snoopy out of my head.

Snoopy is an shall always remain my favorite comic book character of all time.

 

My Halloween Journal Day#1

Journal Prompt: What would be my perfect Halloween costume?

I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in ages, not because I’m not feeling it- I just hate shopping for clothes in general.

However, my granddaughter and her cousin just ooze the Halloween spirit and they have been know to chose not one but two costumes because they do two events- one is a dance at their School and a Spooktacular Fest early in October and Halloween itself on the 31st.

I visit my Son and his family for Halloween instead of Christmas because I love Halloween more, so I get to see Jemma in her costumes in person which means a lot to me.

My Granddaughter Jemma has been picking out her own costumes since she was 3, so it’s always a surprise to see what she’s going to be for Halloween.

The only exception was when she went through her Wednesday phase and I had sent her 3 Wednesday costumes for her to play dress up in. She Chose the one I put below to wear to her school’s Halloween dance because  it’s a Wednesday ‘dance’ dress.

                                                                                      Costumes are so much fun now- they don’t smell funny anymore and the masks don’t have those strings that cut into the backs of your ears. But I’ll be honest, I was just as excited to wear our costumes that were  made from plastic and tied in the back and smelled as funny as the masks as my Granddaughter is to wear her fancy, very cool costumes.

Jemma and Jayde
Fox Lake Wisconsin
October 2025

 

Jemma as Sally
Photo A.M. Moscoso
October 2023

My Granddaughter Jemma as Wednesday
Photo A.M. Moscoso
2023

Pumpkins By
Anita
Jemma
and Julio
Octber 2024

I keep thinking it would be nice to dress up again, for fun. But I probably won’t.