Halloween et al, no we know better et sic porro *

*It's latin baby! et sic porro-and other things! Halloween is now the second biggest holiday, sort of on the calendar. As a kid,I remember you’d come home after school and at least in my house put on your homemade costume, find your friend or friends and go trick or treating, with no parents.Only little kids went with parents and it was rare. It'll be dark and maybe you'll come home because you’re tired. The streets would be full of kids going out and trick or treating. The worst thing you had to remember was not to eat the apples, because there might be razor blades in them. How’d, what kid would ever eat an apple over a candy bar? And what about ‘Gate Night’? This year I didn’t even think about it until it was Halloween. One year I went out with all of the older kids, I was maybe ten, they were all like fourteen. I don’t remember much about the night except we all laid down flat in the road or on someone's grass because the person house some of us might have just hit came out. I didn’t see the person anymore so I got up and said it’s okay, he’s gone inside. One of the bigger kids shuss’d me and told me to get down. The next morning when I was older I drive to work or to school or wherever and see toilet paper strung from trees car windows soaped up, you know real harmless stuff unless it happened to you and your family was a continual target of it.The point is I forgot Gate Night, and next to no one came out for Halloween again this year. My mom and Eric’s house had good crowds at least until 6 PM when I left. Conger’s, I handed out candy to two real little kids. Nastia and Elena have quit going out for Halloween. Sometimes I miss the nights we’d take them down to Nyack and they’d go door to door with the hundreds of other kids, like Halloween used to be when I was a kid. A guess at 24 and 25, almost 26 they have an excuse not to go. Last year Sean and Nastia went to Sleepy Hollow, you know the site written about in the book by Washington Irving call the ‘Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. I need to read that book. They were back early. I thought about going to the ‘Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze” in Croton on Hudson. In past years it seemed like such a luxury, but this year it’d less so until I checked the prices. On Saturday after Halloween it is $52.00 to $68.00. I think I blocked out how much it is on Halloween because I couldn’t rationalize spending that kind of money to walk around for 45 minutes looking at carved pumpkins. I’m sure it’s amazing. I asked KJ, Amanda’s son, to draw a picture of it tonight because no one went.

Nastia, Sean, Elena and Jessica, the one without the son went to fright night at six flags in jackson. I didn’t capitalize any of it because the very poor man's Disney doesn’t deserve it. The last time I was there scarred me for life, and not in a fright night way. Everything was, sooo, sooo, I don’t know. Well, yes I really do know it was awful. It was busy, all the food even though some of it had different names, like Johnny Rocket’s was awful assembly line food well over priced. I don’t remember the grounds as well kept. And all of the new really frightening rides were extra and still are, I imagine. With Disney when they rake you over the coals price wise at least you feel they made a great effort to make you think you're getting your money's worth, and it’s fun. No one gave me any pictures of Fright fest or of Disney World, so I again asked KJ, you know, one year old KJ, Amanda’s son, to give me a rendering of what their night was like. He said it wouldn’t frighten him to do it because he went to the Nyack Halloween Parade.

I was very much against it, I thought he’d be cranky, tired and fuss about because he couldn’t wander around. We parked over on Ash Street, I think, just off North Broadway. We walked and set up our chairs at the corner of Broadway and Main Street. I remember the first year I bought a chair to sit in to watch the parade. Everyone laughed at me, no more. I ended up standing and giving the chair to an old women who needed it more than I did. All of us bring a chair. We got there around 5 PM and the parade didn’t get going until almost 6. It was longer than usual and better than usual. We had a couple behind us…how do it put this without insulting all of the people who moved from Manhattan into the new condos in Nyack causing me not to be able directly or indirectly to build on Tony and Junes property on Catherine Street. The guy who bought it is, I imagine still trying to get it rezoned to knock down the house and build something besides one maybe two, if your lucky two family houses, which I calculated wouldn’t pay if one of them went rightfully to Nancy to live in rent free being she is/ was a part owner of the property.

The people were "oh, look at this, oh waw, that's great. Theywere first timers it sounded like. I asked KJ to draw a picture of the Nyack Halloween Parade, but he was tired so I put a picture of him at the parade because I take pictures and give them to me. Plus the one below, the bonus picture because it is a really great costume.