Traditional Fall Items - Page 5

vaberry · ‎03-20-2010

On 8/17/2014 JannyRee said:
Apples and pumpkins! Oostende, Thank you for posting your recipe.

I usually make my coffee at home but I look forward to pumpkin spice latte and later on eggnog latte.

I live in the Pacific NW on the coast where it can feel like fall even during the summer at times. This morning there was fog and cool temperatures. That burned off to afternoon sunshine. Some of the outer leaves on our Japanese Maple are beginning to turn color. There's a crispness in the air. Just a couple of weeks and the tourists will dwindle. The mosquitoes will leave and my family will take hikes out at the state park. One of our favorite family traditions is foraging for wild mushrooms which is mostly in the fall.

So many things to look forward to.

Just saw on the news, Starbucks pumpkin spice latte is coming back August 25th. I'm going to have to try one for sure now. Wow, a latte coming back in season hits the morning news must mean several people are looking forward to the return. Enough calories for the daily count and a cup of coffee costing over $5.00 isn't an everyday thing, but one ever so often can't be bad. Thanks for referral.

My favorite thing about fall is apple butter festival time. Let us not forget, fall means college football returns.

JamicaJammer · ‎01-14-2013

On 8/17/2014 lulu2 said:
I decorate for Autumn. A few days before Halloween I'll put out holiday placements and a few holiday specific items. The day after Halloween I change them out for Thanksgiving items.

Precisely what I do....all Autumn stuff, then a few Halloween items a few days before like yard stakes, and Jack o'Lanterns, etc. Nothing creepy, either - no ax-in-head/dismembered bodies in the yard, no tombstones, recordings of screams, etc.

Hooty · ‎03-09-2010

OMG, the trolls have hit the Home page!!!

I didn't mean people were poisoning candy and putting razor blades in apples in my neighborhood, if you are of any significant age here, I know you have heard these stories!

Why do people keep twisting posters words around to suit their needs!!! ${#emotions_dlg.angry}$

curlywhitedog · ‎03-09-2010

I don't care for Halloween but I participate because my two grandsons are still very young, 8 and 6, and they look forward to it. I decorate for fall and about a week before Halloween I put out a wooden skeleton and a fabric witch...that's my nod to Halloween. I hate answering the door bell but I join in with the candy because it brings such joy to the little ones.

I remember when my youngest grandson was just 4 months old and my daughter had him dressed up in his stroller like a little pumpkin and on his stroller tray was a tiny pumpkin to hold his "candy". The older one took his candy and said, when prompted by his mother, thank you and put it his candy in his pumpkin. He then took his brother's pumpkin and held it out for candy as well. If I live to be a hundred I will never forget, nor understand, the homeowners response to this brother to brother loving gesture when she said something like "no no little boy, your brother doesn't eat candy and you'll end up eating it for him". Truth of the matter, even the older one was still too young for candy, but it wasn't about the candy, it was about the fun and that's what remains with me today- that's it's about the fun and I'm not yet ready to lose the fun.

Maria

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

Hooty - No problem. I believe about the tampering.

JamaicaJammer/CurlyWhiteDog - Thanks for sharing.

Never Forget the Native American Indian Holocaust

Oostende · ‎03-14-2010

Such a nice thread!

Just Plain Crazy · ‎03-09-2010

When I knew that there would be babies Trick or Treating, I always bought jars of Gerber fruit for the little ones since I knew they couldn't eat candy. Never left them out even if they didn't have a clue.

Now with my kids all grown, I don't have the luxury of knowing if babies will be coming.

JPC

memyselfandI · ‎03-21-2010

On 8/17/2014 Love Roses said:
MeMyselfandI - You have a nice outlook on the Halloween affair. The hi-jinks are rather extreme with the older minors. We were known for the house that gave out the most generous in the treats and the more costly candy - we got a lot of trick or treaters. Like Oostende wrote, folks aren't happy unless they are frightening the small children. We have several who actually dig graves in their front yards, also they hang the bodies and body parts from limbs. Red paint is splattered around to represent blood, and they do jump out of places to scream and frighten. It's just too silly. Some would build fires and fake they were roasting human dolls or body parts too. Not my ideas of enjoying the children.

Oostende - I don't live near your part of the country but the same goes on here in Los Angeles. We have the studios here and many talented amateurs that do the costuming and make-up (burns, scars, bodily gashes, etc.). I can understand your child being uncomfortable or traumatized by the antics of others.

I suppose some of how scared kids are a result of the parents and how they handle it too. As I said, we do a grave yard. When kids are scared I show them how fake it is. I used to do that with our kids when they were young. We use to show them that this was just all in fun. I know some kids are more susceptible than others and I had two that were really rather sensitive to this but as soon as they saw it was fake and it didn't take them long to laugh at body parts or fake blood. And I guess silly is part of it too. I would think if a child is just way too sensitive to the whole thing, as someone suggested, churches, malls, zoos are the way to enjoy the holiday without being scared. Usually, kids take their clues from parents and if parents are uncomfortable they will be too.

I am lucky to live in an area where we don't have the mischief that goes on in big cities. We have had a few things pilfered but that won't deter me. I have gotten really good at wiring so it take a lot to steal something. And we also learned to decorate "up". That is putting spiders on the second floor window or a low roof. Keeps things from being ripped off. I did not realize just how popular our house was until the year before last when a nursing home stopped and asked if we would have our lights on because they were taking a bus of their residents on a tour of the community and ours and a house a bit away were "must see" places. Made me feel good. But maybe that is one of the benefits of a small town. Everyone enjoys this kind of diversion from the norm.

memyselfandI · ‎03-21-2010

On 8/18/2014 Just Plain Crazy said:
When I knew that there would be babies Trick or Treating, I always bought jars of Gerber fruit for the little ones since I knew they couldn't eat candy. Never left them out even if they didn't have a clue.

Now with my kids all grown, I don't have the luxury of knowing if babies will be coming.

JPC

I don't mind babies coming with other kids, after all, what are you supposed to do? Leave them at home? No way. What I really don't understand is when all the parent has is a baby, not a toddler but a baby that can't possibly eat anything. What is up with that. So I now get jars of baby food. Anything I don't use I send to the food pantry. Makes me feel better that the baby will actually get the treat.