A slow Pandemic Halloween

DeSotoSky

DeSotoSky

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Only 3 kids plus my 2 grandkids came by. Worst year ever. We set up a table with decorations in the front yard near the side walk so kids could pick up a bag of candy with social distancing. My Halloween Buck knife is this Orange Canvas Micarta 119 I picked up from Makael a while back.

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We took our daughter to a Fall Festival - Halloween Party at Camp Albemarle on Bogue Sound. The place was packed, but it was an outdoor venue and the church that sponsored it (Liberty Church) was very well organized and sanitized each ball, etc. after every game. I was very impressed. They had food trucks, etc. LOTS OF CANDY! OH

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Sunset over Bogue Sound.
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kids in the back part had some sort of Halloween. but heard tables outside with goodie bags setup and serve yourself type deals. certainly not as fun as normal, but least something. looks like Old Hunters fall festival event wins the most fun I've heard or seen.

I know these kids here are struggling from all the separation. besides the obvious of someone losing their paycheck which is the worst, these kids are getting the worst end of this.
 
We normally get 30 kids or so about the same or more this year. at are place we have the house covered in crazy stuff the daughter loves holloween. We put a table out by the sidewalk and sat on the porch and talked with everyone and thanked them for stopping by and encouraged the kids to take more candy. It was a good night.
 
No kids at our place but I did see one family down the street. The temperature hovered around freezing but the wind gusts hit 55 mph at times. Our province is spiking with virus cases just like most others but it's the worst in Canada based on per capita. Most families are just playing it safe now.

I do suspect that some homes were happy to just shut off the lights and hunker down with treats and movies. I have a few friends part way across town that live on a coveted 1-mile stretch of upper middle class dwellings. Trick or treaters can vary between 500 to 1200 on Halloween. That's a boatload of candy to hand out.
 
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Went to a isolated valley as far from town as I can get (which ain’t much for an island 38 miles long and ten miles wide), with a couple of friends and their families to have our own Halloween.

Made goodie bags for the kids, then cooked some Japanese style soy ramen with side dressings of wood grilled steak, tofu, green onion, wonbok, imitation crab, and salmon sushi.

Watched the full moon rise, drank a beer or ten, listened to some tunes, did a bit of fishing.

Here is a pic of Maui at 11:00 pm. The blue Moon was so bright it made the camera glare.81A00A81-6430-41B9-BFC6-1FB0AE6C1CBF.jpeg
 
Hickory n steel said:
Better than I did, I sat outside in the cold from 6:30-9:00 waiting to scare some kids, and didn't get a single one.
The boss didn't even bring by his son like he said he was going to.
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shame. kids missed out on some fun there.

me and some pals did something like this back in middle school. we had power tools and a gas chainsaw no chain.....mind ya this was before battery ones on electric ones. so on long extension cords.

over coats and gloves and scary masks from that era. I was stationed on the roof over the front porch with a jigsaw saw and a cardboard fake blade made for it. we used what we had in the garage. so choices were limited. I was to jump down and scare little kids. other pal was around the side of the house with a gas chainsaw and no chain. another pal was slumped up against a tree legs spread out sitting up against the tree in the front yard as a scarecrow or a dummy with a drill and fake drill bit. with layers of clothes all baggy to look stuffed and fake. as that was a big thing for decorations back then the scary looking dummy. it gets to be dusk and dark. porch lights on and no one can see me on the roof.

anyways so here comes a little kid maybe 8 years old. with his mom. im on the roof birds eye view literally. so pal slumped on tree was supposed to be the last scare. me first, chainsaw pal second and tree slumped pal the last as they went running away his way.

so kid strolls up with his mom and she says oh timmy or whatever the kids name was.....what a great scary dummy, looks so life like...and kid marches right up to my pal and then swings his leg back and kicks him right in the privates about as hard as an eight year old could. pal screams out and slumps over on pain. mom and kid take off running and screaming thinking it was a dummy and scared to death when it wasnt.

rest of the night went pretty good, but ill never forget that.
 
jbmonkey said:
shame. kids missed out on some fun there.
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They definitely missed out on a Halloween memory they wouldn't forget, but I fear this is just the future of Halloween.
Eventually it'll be nothing but trunk-r-treat in the church parking lot if anything at all.
Me and my brother have so many Halloween memories, and it's a shame where things have gradually been heading.


Sounds like you guys made some real memories that Halloween, for you and any kids you scared.

A few years ago the last time I sat out front to scare people all I did was sit there and let them think I wasn't real, then as they were knocking on the door I'd just quietly stand up with the bowl of candy which for some reason nobody even noticed before knocking.
There was one group that noticed me before walking up so they waited there while one of them lit me up with a flashlight to make sure I was just a dummy ( not that I ain't one ), after a couple minutes with that flashlight shined in my face he was convinced and assured the group I wasn't real.
They were the most scared, and this is the first year they didn't come back to my house for candy since.
 
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