Spooky Season is All Year Round

How do you do Halloween in a pandemic? Ghosts and goblins and witches and werewolves abound, but for once it doesn’t matter what the creature is. The bark is actually just as frightening as a bite. Especially since kids tend to get right in your face when they bark, mouth open.

I thought about a few of the possible solutions. Maybe I could invent some sort of trick-or treating slot machine to dispense candy? With disinfectant wipes available to clean the handle, of course. Or make a drop zone, where a kid can stand and get their treat package dropped from a little drone? I think the kids would get a kick out of it.

But as it gets closer and closer, it seems like we are just going to end up doing things more or less normally. At least, out here in our small town. I don’t know if that’s right, or dangerous, but I do know for a lot of folks the quarantine fatigue HAS been dangerous. Folks get depressed out here, and they don’t talk about it, and it kills people. Not always a noose in the barn, but folks drink themselves to death, or take oxy, or…I don’t know. They don’t always take care of themselves.

I guess they’ve just decided the risk is better than not being a community. I guess I’m going along with them. It’s not as if I haven’t been driving into the farmer’s market every weekend, talking to who knows how many people, putting myself at exposure risk, and then coming right back home.

People need their pumpkins. The people staying home more than ever. Stay safe, whatever you do. And comment below - what are your favorite pumpkin carvings?