Spooky Fun
See reference: Holiday Gift Baskets
Don’t you just love this time of year? Here, in upstate New York, the fall leaves are starting to turn into bright, beautiful colors and are fluttering to the ground in a graceful dance. The air is turning brisk as daylight savings time approaches. Local farmers have turned their corn fields into giant mazes which offer hours of challenging fun for adults and children alike. The firehouse and town recreation center are preparing for their upcoming Halloween parties where the community comes together to play games, bob for apples, eat sugar coated donuts and drink apple cider. The local college students are busy making gory-looking costumes and painting scary scenes for the annual haunted house that frightens kids and entertains adults. The stores are already stocking delicious Halloween treats and a variety of scary, cute, and funny costumes for the upcoming fall celebration. Homeowners are readying themselves for the holiday by decorating their front doors and windows with glow-in-the-dark ghosts, goblins and skeletons. Tombstones with RIP painted on them, caskets, and scarecrows grace front lawns while witches on broomsticks have “hit” at least one tree on every block. Soon the doorbells will be ringing and greetings of “Trick or Treat” will be heard as giggling children and their parents walk to each house in the neighborhood to collect handouts of candy, apples, popcorn balls, and sometimes even pencils or small change. Halloween is just silly fun that brings the community together and can be enjoyed by all. Happy Halloween!
Halloween Safety Tips:
- Eat dinner before setting out.
- Make sure you can see clearly through your mask and makeup. Have your parents enlarge the opening if you can't see well.
- Wear sensible walking shoes.
- Carry a flashlight.
- Stay in familiar neighborhoods.
- Only approach houses that are well lit.
- Stay on sidewalks. If there are no sidewalks walk on the left side of the road, facing traffic.
- Do not pet animals you don’t know
- Walk, don’t run.
- Do not eat any candy until your parents have checked it thoroughly.