{"id":353,"date":"2009-11-01T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/01\/saturday-night-bittersweet\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T07:42:00","slug":"saturday-night-bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/01\/saturday-night-bittersweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Bittersweet."},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re just back in from trick-or-treating .<\/p>\n

It’s been a good day.. not the day I expected, bit a good day<\/p>\n

nonetheless. I had a ton of stuff planned, but this mornign I got a<\/p>\n

call from Herb at the Haunted Forest, .. the Pumpkin King aka<\/p>\n

‘Project-x’, hadn’t been tied down properly and blew over in a high<\/p>\n

wind gust at last night’s performance. Luckily, no one was hurt.. but<\/p>\n

you couldn’t say that for the pumpkin, he’s head had beenn early\u00a0<\/p>\n

knocked off, his fingers were all broken, and arm was dislocated and<\/p>\n

the wires were all ripped up.. Worse.. his whole 20 feet was lying<\/p>\n

horizontal on the ground. Homer got there around 11 and I got there a<\/p>\n

little later..they took off his head.. homer worked on the arm while I<\/p>\n

redid the electronics and repaired the jaw. . Herb repaired the fingers<\/p>\n

It was a mess !<\/div>\n

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By<\/p>\n

about 1 we had the whole guy back together again and completly<\/p>\n

working.. I couldn’t beeive it. Homer is a mechanical genius… <\/div>\n

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As<\/p>\n

I was packign up, a couple of parent visitors to the forest recognized<\/p>\n

me from the show.. so I grabbed a picture.. . I was id’ed 4 times<\/p>\n

today..\u00a0 It still happens every time I go out in public\u00a0 I love talking<\/p>\n

to folks about the show.<\/p><\/div>\n

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During<\/p>\n

the afternoon, Sam M came over and interviewed us for a journalism<\/p>\n

class she’s taking. She’s doing a paper on ‘folks who overdo<\/p>\n

Halloween’.. and she thought of us.. The funny thing is.. with the<\/p>\n

party being last week, we weren’t too motivated to go out tonight. Gabe<\/p>\n

was going out with his friends… but they don’t need us tagging along.<\/p>\n

So… it looked like it would be the first time I hadn’t gone out trick<\/p>\n

or treating for the past 20 years….. <\/div>\n

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I<\/p>\n

dropped Gabe and his friends off.. then had to drop Kristen’s bag at<\/p>\n

friend Scouts’.. I ended up trick or treating by myself at Scout’s<\/p>\n

house….\u00a0\u00a0 and realized I wasn’t old enough to skip trick or treating<\/p>\n

yet.. I zoomed back home <\/div>\n

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and Diane and I whipped together a costume .. We tied ropes between our<\/p>\n

arms and clothes pinned on a bunch of old clothes.. We came as a<\/p>\n

clothesline… or ‘airing our dirty laundry’.. in recognition of our<\/p>\n

towns bizarre and amusing politics of late… <\/div>\n

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Wouldn’t you know that as soon as we got out of the car in town we ran into Gabe and co.. <\/div>\n

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We<\/p>\n

did our normal rounds, first down Bridge street .. with a stop in to<\/p>\n

see Marvin and Bridge Street.. Half the town was in there… <\/div>\n

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We ran into Chris K as ‘iron man’ <\/div>\n

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Then we headed down pleasant street to see Gretch’ , Marshall and Ben and have one of their traditional cider doughnuts. <\/div>\n

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We<\/p>\n

then wandered round town, running into old friends and reliving those<\/p>\n

decades of carrying kids. repairing costumes and eating the candy that<\/p>\n

the kids didn’t like I can remember so, so many of those Halloweens in<\/p>\n

Richmond.. It’s got to be one of my favorite things abotu living in a<\/p>\n

small town like this.. I love our town. <\/p>\n

I love our memories.. Happy Halloween folks.. happy Halloween Sam..\u00a0 Trick or treat !
-me<\/p>\n

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We’re just back in from trick-or-treating . It’s been a good day.. not the day I expected, bit a good day nonetheless. I had a ton of stuff planned, but this mornign I got a call from Herb at the Haunted Forest, .. the Pumpkin King aka ‘Project-x’, hadn’t been tied down properly and blew … Continue reading Saturday night – Bittersweet.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}