#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY– Whimsical
Last year my pawesome dog Hamish Macbeth- (say hi to Hamish everybody)-
Hamish Macbeth 2023
Photo A.M. Moscoso
got this cool Halloween plushie toy from Barkbox.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
This is where Barkbox stuck their label.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Hamish doesn’t chew his toys up, but he does pull these labels off- he’s done it to everysingle toy except this one.
Hamish Macbeth
August 29, 2023
Photo: A.M. Moscoso
That’s okay Hamish Macbeth- we get it.
AI artwork-Creator Unknown
Tomorrow I will hunt for the perfect Halloween Pumpkin
in a field not far from where Iive.
I will haunt the rows, stalk the vines
in my yearly quest to find a Jack-O-Lantern
that resembles a human head.
And when it sees me, the pumpkin will howl
” Great, it’s that psycho with the knife again! ”
I will take it home and carve it, I will scoop out its stringy brains
and after Halloween I will take it’s seeds to the field not far from where I live
and I will scatter them into the wind.
” See you next year Jack I will say
with a little tear in my eye
and my pumpkin’s seeds will hiss, ” beat it you crazy chick, it’s a long way back to
Halloween again. ”
RDP Monday: SEASON
I have made no bones ( see what I did there?) that I love Halloween.
Halloween influences what I like to read and write, and the movies I choose to watch. It inspires the way I dress and the way I decorate my house- even the collars I chose for my dog.
Mary Pickford Movie Promo
Before you assume I dress like Morticia Addams and that I live in a house that used to be Funeral Home or a house with a dark history. I actually don’t. I mean I have touches of those things in my home but there’s one reason I don’t go full on Halloween.
When I was in high school I took a class called Family Living.
My teacher was named Mrs Olmer and in her class you learned actual life skills- like we learned how to balance a check book. how to research and shop for home appliances, how to manage a construction job in your home and she taught a unit on home decorating.
She stressed that you put your favorite color on the top of your list and THAT is the color you use the least.
To emphasize your favorite color she suggested you use it as an accent color- use it for curtains, pillows and wall art – things like that.
So that’s what I’ve done.
It works- the things that reflect me- little things like my curious ( all those odd and macabre things ) that are really small- you could fit most of those things in your hand, no matter how understated they are people will always eventually notice them first and in surprise.
Like my gargoyles- they are all over my home and have a place of honor over my fireplace. But it’s the ones scattered around my home that get noticed first.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
So this is the spooky season and I do love to participate in it year round in a way that appears to be low key, but to quote Charles Dickens in my most FAVORITE ghost story in the world:
“I will honour Christmas HALLOWEEN in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY-Superstition
in Hoodoo Crossroads are where two roads meet to form an X. Photo By: Jeremy Owen
In Wales, there is a superstion that says a disembodied spirit was thought to be sitting on every crossroad and stile on All Hallow’s Eve. (Stiles are small structures that allow humans, but not animals, to pass over fences.)
The smart thing to do then is to avoid Crossroads on Halloween because you don’t know what you will run into, and it is safe to say” it” probably won’t be waiting for you with a bowful of Bite Sized Snickers bars.
Disembodied Spirits are dangerous- they’re devilish when it comes right down to it.
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M’kay. Warning noted.
So I guess I will see you there.
amm
