Autumn and Halloween

[emolas]

I miss Halloween. I miss carving pumpkins with my grandma. I miss taking the rotten remains of those pumpkins out back and blasting them to bits with a shotgun after Halloween was over. I miss trying to talk stores and restaurants into giving out free stuff just to see if it would work. I miss trading away anything with caramel for that last peanut butter twix. I miss pulling elaborate pranks on my friends, or even just dressing in black and popping out of a tree. I miss driving my teachers insane with arguments about how it was discriminatory and hypocritical to allow Halloween and ban other holidays. I miss looking down on the phony creepy and scary stuff being promoted as I dived head first into the real stuff.

I suppose someday I may get Halloween back. Until then, I'll just have to survive with what I've got.

There is hope. When you have children of your own you will be able to relive your childhood vicariously through them.

I miss taking the rotten remains of those pumpkins out back and blasting them to bits with a shotgun after Halloween was over.

You just reminded me about a trebuchet I made a long while back for the explicit purpose of throwing pumpkins for skeet shooting. My friends and I must have spent over a thousand dollars on pumpkins that year but damn was that fun!