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| Tony with the dogs |
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| Dillon |
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| Caleb, Charity and Miranda |
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| Amber and Jared and Sue |
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| Tony is on the left |
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Halloween 2009: Trevor's Funeral
Halloween 2013 was very unusual. I had almost forgotten about it as we traveled to Utah for trevor's funeral. He is Weldon's youngest and had passed away in a car accident. However the evening after the funeral, we remembered halloween, although we had forgotten our costumes. Amber and Shelly did take Tony out, even without a costume. Some of Sara's grandkids also went; but they remembered their costumes.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Halloween Tricking
The only time I really remember Halloween tricking was my Junior High Years in Hyrum. We would go out together Halloweening, a group of four or five boy, with no parental supervision. (One year my cousin tammy went with ur.) Sometimes the group was larger, and sometimes smaller. The evening would begin with an inventory of our resources. What did you score? Some would have a used piece of soap with which they could mark windows. Then there was invariably a few rolls of toilet paper for "TPing." And then there was the person who had a small amount of gas in a bottle stuffed down his pants, which he had snuck out of his garage. Then we were in business. With those resources we could have great fun.
I grew up in a rural town. It wasn't like nobody was out, but there was space between people that you could do things without being seen. It wasn't one group after another, and all with adult supervision, like today. So we would find a tree to TP and a window or two to soap. Although sometimes this was disappointed as the soap wouldn't always stick well. And then there was the gas. It lead itself to all kinds of imagination; none of it good. Perhaps a bottle bomb, or just getting something to burn.
I must admit, our age was pretty lame compared to what older groups had done. There was a year with lots of leaves in the gutters and lots of flame. One year there were flaming tires rolling down main street. But we pretty much fizzled out. Our fire, even with the gas didn't last very long and quickly went out with only ourselves to see our handiwork. We lit it on a back street where no one would catch us, an no one noticed. No great glory in that.
I grew up in a rural town. It wasn't like nobody was out, but there was space between people that you could do things without being seen. It wasn't one group after another, and all with adult supervision, like today. So we would find a tree to TP and a window or two to soap. Although sometimes this was disappointed as the soap wouldn't always stick well. And then there was the gas. It lead itself to all kinds of imagination; none of it good. Perhaps a bottle bomb, or just getting something to burn.
I must admit, our age was pretty lame compared to what older groups had done. There was a year with lots of leaves in the gutters and lots of flame. One year there were flaming tires rolling down main street. But we pretty much fizzled out. Our fire, even with the gas didn't last very long and quickly went out with only ourselves to see our handiwork. We lit it on a back street where no one would catch us, an no one noticed. No great glory in that.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Halloween: After my Mission 1980?
This is a family Halloween activity a couple years after my mission. Jed was born while I was in Argentina, but Aaron and Dustin are also in the pictures.
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| Me, Aaron, Jed, Krista, Dustin |
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| Pumpkin carving with the Buffs |
Sunday, September 29, 2013
October 2004 :Stevens Creek Party; Birthdays
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| Vern as a pirate |
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| Caleb as Jedi Knight |
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| Moriah as Dorothy |
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| Mark as Sailor, Jeremy as Pirate |
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| Kaylee as the Lion |
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| Charity the maid |
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| Jeremy, Tyler Gardner, Alex Struck |
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| A hearty song |
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| Caleb, Natalia |
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| Charity, Jeremy, Caleb |
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| Caleb, Charity and Pati |
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| Miranda |
The next day Jeremy turned 16
And a couple weeks later Charity turned 14.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Halloween Memories: Carbondale, Ill
Halloween Memories: Carbondale, Illinois
We lived in Carbondale for my 5th and 6th grades. I was still into trick-or-treating, but the days of store bought costumes was behind me. Instead I would dress as a pirate. In the fifth grade, I was a pirate in a play at school. It was a fun play. There were a couple witches, and in the end they defeat me by taking my neck bone. I had to pretend I had no neck bone, with my head flapping back and forth. At any rate, the pirate costume stuck for Halloween.
This was a year of “watch out for the big kids who will steal your candy.” And so in addition to trick-or-treating, there was the need to be on the lookout for those who were too old to trick-or-treat, but not too old to be out looking for someone who would be easy prey. What a sense of paranoia that caused, because I remember them coming after people and getting them to run and spill candy out of their bags.
The first year we trick-or-treated up and down our street with all the side courts and streets. My second year in Carbondale we lived in an apartment complex. I am sure I went as a pirate again, but don’t remember much of that year. I do remember a branch party we had close to the Branch Garden. This had been a Civil War Battle site. Of course not a big battle, but you could still see bomb craters in the terrain. We set up a haunted hike and took the younger kids on a hike going past the crater and with other scary things. It was sort of a creepy area, with over hanging trees. I helped build a mannequin which we dropped out of a tree at the kids. One of the older kids ruined everything when he tackled the mannequin. It was suppose to be the highlight of the hike, and ended up being the low-light because a mannequin on the ground is not near as scary as one hanging from a tree, swinging back and forth.
We lived in Carbondale for my 5th and 6th grades. I was still into trick-or-treating, but the days of store bought costumes was behind me. Instead I would dress as a pirate. In the fifth grade, I was a pirate in a play at school. It was a fun play. There were a couple witches, and in the end they defeat me by taking my neck bone. I had to pretend I had no neck bone, with my head flapping back and forth. At any rate, the pirate costume stuck for Halloween.
This was a year of “watch out for the big kids who will steal your candy.” And so in addition to trick-or-treating, there was the need to be on the lookout for those who were too old to trick-or-treat, but not too old to be out looking for someone who would be easy prey. What a sense of paranoia that caused, because I remember them coming after people and getting them to run and spill candy out of their bags.
The first year we trick-or-treated up and down our street with all the side courts and streets. My second year in Carbondale we lived in an apartment complex. I am sure I went as a pirate again, but don’t remember much of that year. I do remember a branch party we had close to the Branch Garden. This had been a Civil War Battle site. Of course not a big battle, but you could still see bomb craters in the terrain. We set up a haunted hike and took the younger kids on a hike going past the crater and with other scary things. It was sort of a creepy area, with over hanging trees. I helped build a mannequin which we dropped out of a tree at the kids. One of the older kids ruined everything when he tackled the mannequin. It was suppose to be the highlight of the hike, and ended up being the low-light because a mannequin on the ground is not near as scary as one hanging from a tree, swinging back and forth.
Halloween Memories: Hyrum
Halloween Memories: Hyrum
We lived in Hyrum for three years, second to fourth grades for me, then moved away for a couple of years; and then returned to Hyrum. I don’t remember much about Halloween the first couple years, but I was old enough to go with older siblings the first couple years, and then with friends my fourth grade year. I would go as Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper was cool.
Halloween in Hyrum, in those days was accompanied by fire. It was a time for burning leaves, and kids would always light up the leaves in the gutters. Sometimes they would also add gas. I remember one year there was a tire rolling down Main Street, which had been doused with gas and then set on fire. Hyrum Main Street has a pretty good hill.
In Hyrum at that time, houses were spaced fairly far apart, so in a block you would hit three or four homes. A block being an eighth of a mile meant to hit a great deal of houses, there was a good deal of walking to be done. If we had been smart, we would have cut over to Main Street where the houses were closer. We would go there sometimes, at least around our own block, but mostly we would stay on our street, 100 South. We would follow that street all the way to Center, and then come back on 200 or 300 South, catching the houses on the East West streets as best we could. By the end of the evening we would collect a goodly amount of candy, but we would be tired as well. I remember there was one house who gave full size candy bars. That was a treat. Families also gave apples and popcorn balls in those days. You don’t see those anymore. Everything is store bought and individually wrapped now.
When we returned to Hyrum I was a seventh grader. I remember some trick-or-treating, but we leaned to the tricking side. We would have a bar of soap, maybe a few rolls of toilet paper, and when I was older we would add a bit of gas to our tricking tools. My cousin went with me one yer. We put gas on top of a stop sign and lit it. It didn't burn long however.
Another year we lit some leaves in a gutter. A police man confronted us. Of course we denied our involvement, he he made us help him put it out all the same.
We lived in Hyrum for three years, second to fourth grades for me, then moved away for a couple of years; and then returned to Hyrum. I don’t remember much about Halloween the first couple years, but I was old enough to go with older siblings the first couple years, and then with friends my fourth grade year. I would go as Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper was cool.
Halloween in Hyrum, in those days was accompanied by fire. It was a time for burning leaves, and kids would always light up the leaves in the gutters. Sometimes they would also add gas. I remember one year there was a tire rolling down Main Street, which had been doused with gas and then set on fire. Hyrum Main Street has a pretty good hill.
In Hyrum at that time, houses were spaced fairly far apart, so in a block you would hit three or four homes. A block being an eighth of a mile meant to hit a great deal of houses, there was a good deal of walking to be done. If we had been smart, we would have cut over to Main Street where the houses were closer. We would go there sometimes, at least around our own block, but mostly we would stay on our street, 100 South. We would follow that street all the way to Center, and then come back on 200 or 300 South, catching the houses on the East West streets as best we could. By the end of the evening we would collect a goodly amount of candy, but we would be tired as well. I remember there was one house who gave full size candy bars. That was a treat. Families also gave apples and popcorn balls in those days. You don’t see those anymore. Everything is store bought and individually wrapped now.
When we returned to Hyrum I was a seventh grader. I remember some trick-or-treating, but we leaned to the tricking side. We would have a bar of soap, maybe a few rolls of toilet paper, and when I was older we would add a bit of gas to our tricking tools. My cousin went with me one yer. We put gas on top of a stop sign and lit it. It didn't burn long however.
Another year we lit some leaves in a gutter. A police man confronted us. Of course we denied our involvement, he he made us help him put it out all the same.
Halloween Memories: Othello
Halloween Memories: Othello
Othello is of course where I have my first memories of Halloween. I can’t remember my costume, but I know one of my first costumes was as a skeleton. Weldon and I actually had the same costume, but different sizes. Othello was a rural community, and we lived outside of town. I do not remember going into town to trick-or- treat. Maybe my older siblings did that. Instead we would load into the car, and go so particular people who were friends, but lived far away from each other so there were not a lot of stops for us to gather candy. Each stop was more a social visit than today’s trick-or-treating. Some reason, I was always asked to sing. I think I started singing as early as three-years old. I would always sing the same song: “I’m a Little Teapot.” “I’m a little teapot short and stout, Here is my handle and here is my spout. When I get all steamed up then I shout, Tip me over and poor me out.” My brothers and sisters liked for me to sing. It got them off the hook, as it was a common request in Othello to ask trick-or-treaters to sing. Also they liked it as they said it got us more goodies. I guess I was good enough that we were all rewarded.
Othello is of course where I have my first memories of Halloween. I can’t remember my costume, but I know one of my first costumes was as a skeleton. Weldon and I actually had the same costume, but different sizes. Othello was a rural community, and we lived outside of town. I do not remember going into town to trick-or- treat. Maybe my older siblings did that. Instead we would load into the car, and go so particular people who were friends, but lived far away from each other so there were not a lot of stops for us to gather candy. Each stop was more a social visit than today’s trick-or-treating. Some reason, I was always asked to sing. I think I started singing as early as three-years old. I would always sing the same song: “I’m a Little Teapot.” “I’m a little teapot short and stout, Here is my handle and here is my spout. When I get all steamed up then I shout, Tip me over and poor me out.” My brothers and sisters liked for me to sing. It got them off the hook, as it was a common request in Othello to ask trick-or-treaters to sing. Also they liked it as they said it got us more goodies. I guess I was good enough that we were all rewarded.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Halloween Scare from my Father
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Halloween 2002
Party at work. I am the lovable bunny, Hue the bloody butcher, Carol with him, Elizabeth the blow up whatever, I am not sure who is Sponge Bob. I think Anne is the witch. This is the courtyard at DLP. We have moved since then.
Booify, Halloween lyrics
(chorus)
Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
We’re here to boo-i-fy you
We’re here to boo-i-fy you
Scary and eerie, wary and dreary
We’re here to boo-i-fy you
On a Halloween night I took quite a fright
When I went out to prowl and howl
You see, I saw a witch in flight
On her face was an ugly scowl
She spied me and dived at me
But I managed to escape,
At that is why I’m here today,
To join in this Halloween growl.
(chorus)
On a Halloween night I took quite a fright,
When I went to the trunk or treat,
You see, I saw a ghost in white
And me he did want to eat.
He chased me and ran at me
But I managed to escape
He couldn’t find me amongst his friends
For I was hid under a sheet.
Boo (in round)
(chorus)
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