This was my Halloween memory, year after year. I felt cheated that I didn’t get to go Trick or Treating with the other kids. After this year, a lot of young people are going to be having similar memories of not getting to get dressed up or pester neighbors for candy. It will be interesting to read blog posts years from now after children have developed some perspective on current events. Will they have happy memories of an evening with their families, or will they go all out making sure their own kids and pets have a spectacular, spooky celebrations?
I obviously went the second route.
(This evil bitey monster was Geordie. He was willing to model pretty much anything for me. Not sot he Tobester…)
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The Adventures of Bitey Dog 
OHHHH THE BEAUTIFUL CLOAK REVIVES LONG AGO MEMORIES OF THE OPERA. SIGHS.. THEY WERE THE DAYS WHEN FOLK KNEW HOW TO DRESS UP FOR SPECIAL EVENINGS !
HUGSSSSSS
I never had a chance to go to the opera though I have long wanted to see Pagliacci.
I guess nobody is going to the theater right now.
I actually have a white velvet, satin lined cape. 🙂 Halloween for me was a great time, I lived in the country on a road that was pretty much all relatives so we got the big candy bars. Now, I live in the woods and no one comes to my house. Bear eats all the candy cuz I can’t eat chocolate.
Not eat chocolate?! I think you’ve just told the scariest Halloween tale I’ve ever heard! 😱
Chocolate in any but the smallest quantity gives me migraine. Life is wonderful when you can’t eat this or that but hey, it’s better than spending three days in bed, in pain.
The cape is likely a nice contrast from the pointy witch hat. 😈
the cape actually has a lovely pointed hood attached. 🙂
Great! Custom fit. 😜
What a great photo of Geordie! The only thing I like about Halloween are dog costumes and real little kid costumes which are pretty much the same thing at a meta level, no? I grew up with normal suburban trick or treat traditions except we couldn’t spend on costumes so I wss often a ghost (bed sheet), an old man (father’s clothes and hat) or some other lame attempt. But I got candy and did plenty of “tricks” which nowadays would be called misdemeanors.
Hee hee! Were you one of those miscreants who threw corn at people’s windows or TP’d houses?
We had to have costumes for school, so my brother and I ended up with $1.50 ones with the plastic aprons and masks from the drug store. We had to trade them back and forth every year throughout our academic careers.
Geordie says: Thank you! I sure was a handsome devil, wasn’t I? Mom designed many lame costumes for me during my tenure in earth. Heaven is nice ‘cause I can run nekkid now.
Ha! I didn’t notice the little faces in the back of the station wagon when I was on mobile. Very funny. I remember those El Cheapo masks and I think I had one or two myself – I recall the strange, plasticky smell and the weak elastic bands that snapped almost right away. With your bum leg and dry eye I think a pirate is indeed the perfect costume. Peg leg and patch. Maybe The Tobester could dress as a parrot and perch on your shoulder?
Could I at least be a sexy peg legged, one-eyed pirate with a terrier-parrot on my shoulder?
I think you would be the best one ever! And Toby would be the bestest parrot-dog ever.
Geordie is so cute! Makes me giggle! (He looks like he was a relative of my Cooper. 😉 )
Sorry to see your sad face in the drawing. 😦
I think people will be creative and have a fun, just different, Halloween this year!
Growing up we got to go trick-or-treating every year. It was a blast. 🙂
As adults, we’ve always helped with a HUGE community Halloween party, or celebrated with friends, OR just stayed home and handed out candy. All of those have been fun to me. 🙂
(((HUGS))) 🙂
Mommy’s mom wouldn’t let her go either. Mom hate Halloween.
Aw, I’m sorry this happened to you too. It stinks, doesn’t it?
My fiance also hates chocolate, but that did not stop him. He would trade for anything that was not chocolate, and did the same at Easter.
What was his favorite non-chocolate treat?
Probably beer.
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