What I'm Reading This Week #25
Hello and happy Friday from the land of the scorching sun. We are in for absolute Hades conditions the next few days, right on cue for the summer solstice. You know I'm not happy about that. 😒 Thankfully, my other 50% shade cloth just arrived and is airing out so they can go on in the afternoons. I have stuff in the big planters that are not fans of scorching heat so I need to be as on it as possible if I don't want it to go to poop for other reasons to add to the current reasons. (Rain, pests, etc) I'm tryin' y'all! I just got my little lint rollers to roll aphids/larvae off instead of wasting shipping tape. I swear to you I have not seen ONE BEE since everything went in. There was this chubby bumble bee that would hang out when our lilac was in bloom and just zone out levitating so I thought for sure she would be here for it all. Nope. The second it bloomed, it was gone. I haven't seen honeybees at all. I've checked ...
I wanted a Darth Vader helmet so bad. The first Halloween I asked for that I got a knockoff helmet that was actually kind of cool but since it wasn't Star Wars I didn't like it at the time. Then for my birthday one year I really wanted a stormtrooper helmet but ended up getting the real Darth Vader helmet instead and that was my go-to costume every year from that point on until I too was just too tal to continue to go. I wish we could still trick or treat as adults! Not fair!!
ReplyDeleteMy brother had that mask! He has an October bday and the year he trcik-or-treated as Darth Vader was also the year he appeared on the local kids show in my hometown. He wore his costume and was the lead-in from the commercial when the opened the segment where the birthday kids got to pull a fistful of pennies from the jar. They even played the Imperial March!
DeleteMy mom was a good sewer and I had some cool homemade costumes. I also had my share of store-bought, including those plastic masks. The most memorable was the year my Mom sewed the Annie dress and I had a red-head wig. One of my neighbors asked me to sing "Tomorrow." I felt like a star.
I trick or treated clear up to my junior year of high school, and would have gone my senior year too but I had a job and had to work. At a Chrismas store. Hmmm... think maybe there's a reason for my "it's too early for Christmas issues"? lol
ReplyDeleteWhere I grew up people didn't really complain about older kids/teens trick or treating. I think they mostly figured it was a better alternative to the shenanigans we could have been up to. I don't ever remember anyone telling us we were too old.
I had some super cool costumes as a kid. All home-made and because kids are contrary I always wanted the store bought flimsy plastic mask and nylon costume and my folks always said no. I went as ET one year, a flower (complete with a paper machie mask and a giant box as a pot) another year.
I remember being a kitty and I still look for that mask to this day. I was wonder woman one year, Isis another (the mythic one, not what it's known for today...oddly, she looked a lot like wonder woman), and a witch one year.
ReplyDeleteI think another layer and I had very similar Halloween experiences growing up. I don't remember ever having a store bought costume and I can't remember when I stopped trick-or-treating, but it was some time in high school.
ReplyDeleteI was always something different every year for Halloween and I always had to come up with the idea for my costume. My parents would help if necessary, but as I got older more and more of the costume was my responsibility. The challenge was always that the costume had to have the potential to be adapted to wear a winter coat and potentially even snow pants underneath. You never knew what the temperature would be like a the end of October in Canada. I remember one year I was a Christmas present, another year I was a grave stone, and then there was always the easy costumes of being a gypsy, witch, of a teenager from the '50's. Inspiration usually came from what I could find at the used clothing store.