Halloween at the House of Fielding
Published by Gail (blogspot) October 31st, 2005 in House of Fielding
We carved the pumpkins at the appropriate time — the witching hour — and David finished his in a fraction of the time it took me to do mine. You can see why. I don’t know what I was thinking when I started carving; I had a loose plan for the eyes, but I was stuck on the nose and mouth. I took a marker and started something vaguely Maori-ish, then freestyled with the knife and ended with Easy Serrated Teeth in a Big Mouth Because I Was Tired. The appendage hanging down the middle started off as an uvula, looked more like an unmentionable, so I cut a couple of nostrils into it.
It was a perfect night for trick-or-treating — barely a breeze, almost balmy. The plan was for me to wear David’s pirate costume, but to make things easier I just threw on the leaf garlands from our wedding and turned us into trees. This didn’t last long — David didn’t find the leaves comfortable, so he put on his baggy trousers (now baggier than ever!) and musket, wore his tam, then switched to his tri-corner hat.
I’m a fallen tree. If Hugh wasn’t such a fraidy cat with kids, I’d have put him on my shoulder. Or put him in a bow tie, if I could. This is who came to our door:
1 SpongeBob Squarepants
1 witch
1 princess
1 hula girl
2 ghouls
1 Luke Skywalker
3 Darth Vaders (2 of them were the neighbour twins)
1 Harry Potter
1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
1 monkey
1 Tin Man
1 mouse
1 fairy
1 tiger
1 Playboy Bunny*
1 accident victim
1 very cute pink sheep
1 mummy
1 cowboy
… and some we couldn’t identify. David won the bet that the first child would be SpongeBob Squarepants. The Harry Potter kid wasn’t so obvious to me, but his dad said the little guy’s glasses kept fogging up, so he took them off.
* If you’re old enough to be dressed like the Playboy Bunny, you’re too old for trick-or-treating.
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Memorable joke from one of the trick-or-treaters (I think it was the Ninja Turtle):
“How do you fix a jack-o-lantern?”
“With a pumpkin patch!”
…well worth the candy donation!
Love the decorations…I never did that. I may have been all Stepford-ed out, but my house was bland-o-bland.
Apparently “Dora the Explorer” was in the top 5 for this year. Madeleine could have gone as pretty much herself, but she was more interested in being a “Queen Bee.”
Good joke that, about the pumpkin patch.
Aren’t you guys the artistic ones.
nice pumpkins
(apologies if that sounds like british seaside humour.)
My list of who came to the door is much easier!
1 gypsy woman
1 ballerina
LOL
Kim, you must’ve had a lot of leftover candy!
Kimberly, condsider yourself lucky. nobody, yes, nobody came to my place. I’d even bought lots of sweets/candy too. perhaps the “beware of dog” sign in the window had something to do with it… the comical part being she’s a 6 month old minature schnauser called Precious and is as daft as a brush
in one way i guess it’s not too bad. in the uk, halloween is more of an excuse for teenagers to go egging and causing mayhem.