All Hallowed Evening
Whether you celebrate Celtic New Year’s Eve [Samhain], the evening before All Saints Day [Halloween], or the posting of Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 [Reformation Day], have a happy one.
Wikipedia does its normally thorough job of covering all of the bases on the holidays that share October 31st.
These are my remembrances of a traditional American Halloween.
Locally we are having preemptive lawn drowning to prevent people at the ‘Autumn Festival’ from parking on our grass.
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He’s a very dangerous feline. He could roll over on to you and crush you, or take you out with a hair ball on your way to the bathroom…
We had actual trick-or-treaters here on the “socialist coast”. Where we did the socialist thing of giving these kids candy. For *free*. Without any pay or money even hinted at! No wonder we’re such hellholes of diversity and prosperity!
– Badtux the Snarkily Giving Penguin
The is nice to know some people preserve the traditions and don’t try to change the country with the interjection of ‘Harvest Festivals’.
It’s the immigrants. They learned about these traditions through American movies and television shows, so they carry them forward, not knowing anything about “Harvest Festivals” or anything like that. They are, in general, better Americans than Americans are nowadays.
First generation Americans are always more traditional that those who have been around a few decades. They have to take tests that are rather detailed to stay here, unlike most voters in this country.
He could roll over on to you and crush you
I’ve got one of those fur-covered bowling balls too.
or take you out with a hair ball on your way to the bathroom
we’ve got a division of labor here at chez hipparchia; my smallest cats have taken on this task, possibly because the fur-covered bowling ball can’t balance on the edge of the bathroom sink (no countertop to speak of, it’s one of those sinks with just enough of a surround to have a miniscule cabinet underneath).
You have a diversity that I lack. I’m making do with just two cats that are all but invisible to the outside world and have no social skills at all.
I know the sinks of which you speak. We use them when one of the wall-mounted original sinks is broken. Given that the wall-mounts are enameled cast iron, no easy task.
You have a diversity that I lack. I’m making do with just two cats that are all but invisible to the outside world and have no social skills at all.
I like to think of it as the ccc/wpa of catdom. 😛
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