Well, another Halloween has come and gone. We had a good crowd show up, yet we have more leftover candy than ever, because one of our neighbors dropped some off so we could cover for them while they went to a party. There’s plenty for me to leave in the break room at work on Monday!
Here is what I posted last Halloween ,and the year before that, and three years ago. This year I added the video projector to the decorations, in rear projection mode with an old sheet hung from the garage door for a screen. I played the 1953 movie “War of the Worlds,” and the original “King Kong .” It was very windy tonight! On the video you can hear the wind, and some kids up the street.
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I was pleased that ABC -TV ran “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” twice this week. Being the fan that I am — Great Pumpkin is my favorite “Peanuts” cartoon — I watched it both times, and the commercials too. There was a loud hum in the soundtrack towards the end that I don’t recall ever hearing before. And I had to think of the promo in an ironic way, because I refuse to accept it as a sincere attempt at updating Charlie Brown!
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Up early, again! I wanted to do a shout-out to the first set of twins in the Pratt family, Jeff and Liz, who had a birthday on HALLOWEEN yesterday. Happy Birthday, fellow twinsters! They are just one year and 10 months older than the Amazing DogRat and Jeanie Beanie.
We never get trick or treaters at the end of our dirt road. However, we did have the annual Lion’s Halloween Parade tonight. Molly was out with the high school band again, flipping her color guard flag. There were 32 “floats” and registered walkers this year, up from an all-time low of about only 15 ten years ago. Halloween in general has become more popular, I read on CNN and elsewhere, due to the surge in paranormal “reality” series on so many networks.
I always manage to miss the annual showing of “The Great Pumpkin!” Yes, it was nice of ABC to show it twice. I must admit, I, too, always favored it just slightly over “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”