Halloween 2020

 I am still amazed at the fact "Halloween" has become as big a deal as it has in today's world.

As a child, in the 1960s, we loved going house to house to ask for treats. And it was stuff you got then, well, you'd, would "bitch and moan" about today, but in the 1960s, we love it. On a rare occasion would you get a mini Milky Way or a Almond Joy. Most of the stuff we got was hard candy, peppermints, etc. Maybe a candied apple, and the thing was, we knew all the people whose house we went to. The Mormons gave out a lot of candied apples, and in those days you had no fear of eating them. (You went to school and played Little League baseball with, church league basketball against, with the Mormon kids many of which I still am in contact with. )

But today? 

It is more about adults having a good time than the kids.....Come on, "slutty" Halloween costumes? Where's this come from? Not that I don't sort of enjoy "wimmens" in state of undress,( I do) but seriously, where did this come from?

Even as a teen in the 1970s, Halloween was a time to hang out with friends, perhaps have an "adult" beverage and maybe if you were lucky, you got to talk to some girls. Maybe you even got a kiss from one. Generally in the woods around a bonfire. 

But this year, we will have a " Blue Moon" Halloween.

A Full Moon. 

The first full moon on Halloween since 1944....That was during World War II. 

The question is this....

Are you letting you kids " Trick or Treat?"( We don't have Trick or Treaters here, too far off the beaten path, no kids really in the neighborhood. I no long even buy candy)

Is you church having a " Fall Festival?" Or has Covid killed that this year?

2020, you're a bastard aren't you?