Hey, did you know you can make a Jack O Lantern out of Bell Peppers?
AllRecipes sent an email today with the recipe. Really cute.

In California some where, they had an all you can carry pumpkins for $5.00.
It was funny to watch people try to carry as many pumpkins as they could...a person can't carry many.
Some were carrying one huge pumpkin whilst others were trying to carry a lot.

When I was a kid I lived up by Chicago and it seemed like every Halloween it was cold and rainy. I always
dressed as a Princess but it didn't matter because I always had a coat on. We'd have shopping bags after
shopping bags full of candy and money. The stores always stocked extra brown grocery bags because they
knew kids would be coming in asking for bags....and they were free, by the way. As I grew a little older, I
joined my friends teepeeing houses with loads of toilet paper.

Today I don't think there is as much door to door trick or treating. Too many bad people inserting dangerous
stuff in candy etc.

Happy and Safe Halloween!

This post is very nice to read!

Halloween was not a part of Australian culture until relatively recently.

It seems to be increasingly "celebrated", although I doubt that many people who walk their children around knocking on doors would have any idea of the origins or significance of this "festival".

My opinion, admittedly potentially seen as excessively cynical, is that the increasing awareness of Halloween in this country may have originated with the increasing proportion of television air-time dedicated to programmes produced in North America rather than locally-produced programmes, but that it is now driven by commercial interests wanting to increase sales on the back of anything that will drag money out of parents' pockets/wallets.

I also see that here in Australia the increasing "celebration" of Halloween in child-care centres and primary schools coincides almost exactly with the decreasing celebration of Christmas and Easter. Political-correctness gone mad has made it unacceptable to celebrate Christmas in child-care centres and primary schools in this country but it seems that "celebrating" pagan festivals is acceptable!


All that being said...and my rant being completed...Happy Halloween and a blessed All Saints Day.

Someone sent me this video and its really epic

Epic Halloween Prank by Tom Mabe - YouTube

I think if I was outside walking around and that came flying above my head, I'd think it was Martians
had finally arrived on earth and they are reapers. Reapers from Mars! haha!

My grandfather was a pentecostal preacher and I was adopted by my grandparents so you could almost
say I am a preachers daughter. I am mighty sure back when I was a kid, the word 'pagan' wasn't even
mentioned much. Of course, back then in the 60's we didn't have the internet and we didn't have CNN.
What I am saying is, Halloween was nothing more to them than a dress up day for kids in which they had
fun trick or treating. I think back on that and IF my grandparents had ever realized for one moment that
Halloween was a pagan holiday, they wouldn't dare allowed me to participate.

The 'holiday' thing really has gotten out of hand. It's just crazy what some areas will allow and will not
allow.