Halloween Recap

I am back. I have some Halloween fun to recap. I took the lad out for Halloween. I said that his costume was too highbrow for some. I mentioned that he was going as Edvard Munch's "The Scream". The wife had found a frame and attached black neoprene with a hole for the lad's face. He had white gloves taped up near the face so as to look like he was holding his head in his hands. The kids at school had no idea what he was. These kids are clowns, football players and such. I cannot understand how elementary school kids do not know from "The Scream". What is that all about? What are they teaching our kids?

Well, on the street, where it really counts, he rocked. He had decided to wear the gloves and do the anguished face. The wife streaked his face with grease paint in the appropriate "The Scream" colors. It looked awesome, when he wanted it to. Now, to be quite honest, nobody got his costume without asking. When they did ask and hear his explanation (and face), all were impressed. Of course, to the nanny set, who did find it a giggle, it looked like he was a picture, with his face in the frame. We had a good haul, though and that is really what Halloween is all about.

He and wife decided to gon farther. They went to this funky house across the bridge. The house looks like it is unfinished, but it has been that way for at least three years. Anyway, the woman there went to art school. She loved the costume. And who would not?

The lad and wife had carved a couple of pumplins. One was with bats and the other was a skull with flames at the top of his head. They were cool. At about eight, I blew out the candles and brought in the mat that screams when you step on it. It scares the crap out of little kids, though there are those who figure it out and love to jump on it repeatedly. We were left with the dregs of candy.

The next morning the two pumpkins were gone. There was no remnants to suggest somebody smashed the pumpkins on our or our neighbors' properties. Who the fuck stole those Jack O'lanterns? Why? This is a greater mystery than how they get the caramel in the Caramilk chocolate bar (there, you can tell I am Canadian with that line). Ciao!