![]() At home we used straw to stuff the body costumes, with the pumpkin heads being attached to a small shoulder board before being attached to a support pole driven into the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() For some supplies Jay and I made a couple of trips to the Salvation Army on Quadra where we collected costumes and masks as well as other miscellaneous articles used for the various scenes. The whole family, including Jay and Jeff, Avery, Lynn, shared in creating many of the new caricatures and ghostly scenes. This was “Year 1” of expanding the Halloween scene to the full front and side yard. It was fortunate we purchased all those extra treats as by 8:45 the well was dry. For the younger ones, perhaps intimidated by the sights and sounds, mom or dad supplied a reassuring hand to the front door. To get to the treats, they had to travel through the yard to reach the front door where they were greeted by a “schoolmarm” who questioned them about “have you completed you homework?” to which she was given all manner of answers (mostly yes, as they knew that likely meant an immediate treat). He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere.' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out.Over the course of the afternoon and evening we received a hoard of kids and adults (estimated at 150-200), all in a variety of great costumes. ![]() And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. “For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. ![]()
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