By Doug D. Ripper (alias Doug Draper)
The pumpkin’s been carved and the werewolves are howling.
At the Howell Family Pumpkin Farm in Pelham, Ontario. Check it out this great Halloween venue before all the spooks fly away.Photo by Doug Draper
For all of the children out there, and for those of us who remain children at heart, it is time to grab those costumes down off the hangers and get ready to head out into the neighbourhoods for candy kisses and all of those other devilish, teeth-rotting treats.
Sadly, my ‘spaceman’ costume stopped fitting me when I was about 12 years old, even with a few alternations here and there. So for the past 48 years I’ve had to dig out my ski mask, hockey stick and a pillow case large enough to just about give me a double hernia when its bulging full of all candy those nice old ladies are afraid not to give when I’m standing there in all my spooky stealth, outside their front door.
I got to admit that at this stage in my life, trick or treating at Halloween has lost a bit of its witchy magic. Instead of getting the old; “Isn’t that a nice costume. I’m gonna give you another candy apple” that I used to get back in the olden days when I was five or six years old, I’m more often getting; “Aren’t you a little big for this?” And I’m just thinking; ‘If they only knew how old I look under that ski mask. Thank God it hides my graying hair!’
Oh well, you can’t let a little bite in the neck like that stop you from going on haunting people.
Have a nice Halloween and I hope you are not haunted by someone like me knockin’ at your door.
Niagara At Large 
My Halloween Memories include: Me dressed up in a Black Cat costume that was lovingly hand made by Grandma. Meow.
The Halloween “Talking Pumpkin”: Dad crouched behind a carved pumpkin, chatting with the kids, and puffing, blowing cigarette smoke thru my pea shooter. That recall dates me, right?!
Preparing for Halloween: Mom in the kitchen making candy apples to hand out to “the little tricksters” that came to the door in droves.
And then there is this: The favourite Halloween trick played by the little tricksters…like me: Nicky Nicky Nine Doors. Oh so thrilling, eh?!
Now, I’m looking to read about your fondest Halloween moments….Tom
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from a Buddy in Muskoka….”Walking to Minett to turn over outhouses & paint pigs !”
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With a mug like yours pal…I’d wear a ski mask 365 days a year !
LOL (My treat…is a trick on you)
Happy Halloween Mr. Ripper
John
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Halloween back then: Dipping 4 Apples. Wet but fun, eh?!
Fun filled memories of Halloween back then: Wax Dracula Lips.
Halloween back then: Taking a bar of soap to car windshields. Precursor to graffiti, I guess. Fun for them doing the soaping, right?!
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Halloween “Word of the Day” #Fun #Pumpkin #Photo is available on line at http://flic.kr/p/aAAd2v Oh go ahead, it’s not that scary, really?!
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