Halloween Time
During the early 40’s, while we were doing our best — working together to support our men and women in an effort to win WWII, Halloween took a back seat – and I, a little kid, just did as I was told! With a small “Victory Garden” and a few chickens, we learned to do without, and be happy and feel blessed with what we had.
When you are attending school, your teacher informs you of the up coming “Holidays” – what you need to do to celebrate, and just so your parents know how much you know – you bring home evidence! I could draw a big circle and color it orange and cut it out, call it a pumpkin, and it was for the 31st of October, so we could celebrate, “Halloween.”
To this day, I’m surprised to be alive? I was fully “armed” to go out to do “Halloween” with my “Pea Shooter” and “Soap Bar” and a bag of “Peas” – the required ammunition! For me , to put a “Pea” in my mouth, line up , in the “Pea Shooter” – and blow as hard as a “Tornado” or “Hurricane” with a dead aim at the neighbor’s windows – what a joke on me? I hardly had enough wind in me to get my self home! What ever happened to all the peas – did I swallow half of them? The “Pea Shooter” was only an ice cream soda straw! I do not believe even one pea hit a window? Till this day – I still don’t know what I was suppose to be doing!
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