We don't usually do much on Halloween. Teapot and I always took the girls out on Halloween and walked all over town with them as they trick and treated with hundreds of other kids. In the last few years we would pass Halloween at my parents house as our older children walked the streets themselves. Since we live outside of town nobody ever comes to our house on the evening of Halloween so we have not decorated our home for a long time. But this year Daughter #1 felt that she had outgrown this trick or treating and even though her friends were heading out she had decided to stay home and watch movies. We were going to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula... the 1992 (4?) version with Winona Ryder, but in the end I couldn't get it in time for us to watch it so we hit the local movie rental place in an effort to find something that would similarly scare the poop out of us. We hit on Van Helsing.... which was not as scary as we thought, and Constantine which was a little scarier. We had dinner on the couch as Daughter #2 and Teapot headed off to town for the annual foray into trick or treat land. Teapot decided in the end to come home and join us on the couch for dinner and a movie. At 7:45 p.m. we headed off to pick up Daughter #2 who was to meat us at the school with her friend. we picked her up and headed off to the airstrip north of HH where each year the volunteer firefighters put off a really cool fireworks display in an effort to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis. We got there just in time to watch the fireworks display and let me say that for a small town of approximate 1100 population, it was awesome.
After that we came home and watched the rest of Constantine.
Today is All Saint's day, a day that the Roman Catholic church in the celtic regions of Europe, concocted in an effort to combat the pagan celebration of Samhain. Tomorrow is All Soul's Day and it too was included to get those pagans of old under control. I don't really care what the reason was for these celebrations but it marks the passing of the summer... it marks the passing of the sun. We are now well and truly into the second season..... the season of the dark, and I for one am certainly feelin' it. This is the time of year that I truly dislike. It is the time of the year when I feel the full moon so much more strongly... and I feel the dark afternoons so much more poignantly. And I don't mean this is a mental thing. It is that for sure but my body responds to the lack of light too. I begin to lose my energy, I begin to sleep harder, deeper, and longer, and I begin to gain weight. (I also start to really panic about Christmas but we won't go there). Life, as I enjoy it in the summer, changes now and I really don't start to feel good until the return of the sun in the spring. (Usually around the end of February)!
Today is a day of getting work done. I need to finish a couple of pieces of jewelry.... for Christmas gifts. I need to dye some yarn for socks. I need to take care of Daughter #1 who is home today from school with a stomach flu. (I'm thinking she might have had too much junk and candy yesterday.) Either way, the year moves on and so must I.
Happy All Saints Day.
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