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Celebrating Halloween
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on October 31, 2022, 09:08:55 pm ---My lights are lit, including the jack-o-lanterns in the side windows, and I've ended spooky season by watching the original 1978 "Halloween".
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I used to watch the 1979 version of Dracula, with Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier, but I never got around to finding it on DVD.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: southendmd on November 01, 2022, 05:03:51 pm ---Technically, both are correct. Some feel that "lighted" is more correct...
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I think I would write, "I lit the candle at sundown," but "The candle was lighted at sundown."
Anyway, one thing I might add to put paid to celebrating Halloween: The unsold candy goes on sale November 1. :laugh:
(I needed a few things from the drugstore yesterday, and while I was there I picked up a bag of Reese's peanut butter cups and a bag of candy corn at half price. ;D )
(It's funny. I never really cared much for candy corn, but this year I had a craving for it. ??? )
Jeff Wrangler:
Last month already, I began to see pumpkins for sale at the supermarket where I shop, and at the farmer's market I go to when I'm at my dad's. A year, maybe two years ago, I noticed that virtually all the pumpkins for sale in both places were nice, globe-shaped fruits. That made me wonder: Not so many years ago, I remember pumpkins for sale in all kinds of odd shapes, some "tall and thin," others flat on one side (because they had lain on their sides while they were growing), as well as some--but by no means all--pumpkins that had a nice globe shape.
There has certainly been a change. I wonder what's happened? ???
Jeff Wrangler:
The Halloween attractions have begun opening.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 06, 2023, 03:09:27 pm ---Last month already, I began to see pumpkins for sale at the supermarket where I shop, and at the farmer's market I go to when I'm at my dad's. A year, maybe two years ago, I noticed that virtually all the pumpkins for sale in both places were nice, globe-shaped fruits. That made me wonder: Not so many years ago, I remember pumpkins for sale in all kinds of odd shapes, some "tall and thin," others flat on one side (because they had lain on their sides while they were growing), as well as some--but by no means all--pumpkins that had a nice globe shape.
There has certainly been a change. I wonder what's happened? ???
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Maybe they're bred to be round, or maybe they give away the oddly shaped ones? The oddly shaped ones -- lopsided, elongated -- can actually make the coolest jack-o-lanterns.
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