Thread: The Halloween Season

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I know everybody here loves H'ween (duh! ) and can't wait for the actual day...and neither can I...but I was just thinking about something.

It's really not just the one day I love. It's the whole season.

I guess it's autumn in general, but just that first half of it (since technically autumn keeps continuing until late December).

I want to get that feeling back...that happy feeling from the time school starts back up...Now that I live in a place that doesn't really have an autumn "season" so much, I have been missing that badly. I want to get that feeling of jolt-for-joy at that moment seeing orange in stores, or buying a little decorative gourd to add to the 50 others I've already bought or visiting the pumpkin patch or watching a scary movie.

Since we moved to SoCal, which is actually sort of paradise in quite a few respects...just not this one, I have waited for the actual day for things to feel "Halloween-ie". In the past, living in the northeast, things did feel Halloween-ie, for at least a month beforehand for most people (and longer than that for me as, like I said, back-to-school always gets me hungry for autumn and for Halloween).

I don't know why I'm posting this...I guess it's just a revelation I had...I want to enjoy the whole season this year! Okay, so it's not a dramatic season like in the northeast. But we do have some trees that change color. The heat definitely does lift and the stores are pouring out with Halloween and autumn stuff. I will enjoy the whole season this year...because after five years of missing out on it (or feeling like I was)...I never want to miss out again.

Okay. Discuss. Tawk amongst yourselves.

Its all 4 seasons for the people like us!

I grew up in so cal and it had a far better halloween feel than here in nor california, i'd kinda like to experiance the real 4 seasons deal like in the northeast or mid-atlantic

My favorite too, the coolness, the colors and of course Halloween. Oh and Turkey day too! Yeah here in socal it's not as dramatic as the noea but I can't complain.

The 4 seasons are over rated. Snow gets tiring real fast, especially when you have to shovel it. I will never forget when I was stationed overseas, it snowed, and all of the guys from areas that never had or seen snow ran outside to play in it. Those of us use to it just shook our heads. The grass is always greener... I guess.

I agree, there is nothing quite like Fall for me. Not to hot, not to cold, perfect sweatshirt and Jeans weather. I even kinda like getting up for work in dark, some days .. or should I say Mondays .. are a bit rough but its still something that I enjoy from time to time.

I start to chart my TV watching around Football and Halloween Specials. People start to get all the holiday stuff out on their lawns and you are bound to have at least 50 Halloween/Ghost/Monster/Vlad The Impaler shows on The History Channel, which are always and interesting watch.

We get hit with those three holidays one after another after another, in October - November - and December .. so all and all its just a good time of year.

I am for sure going to try to make this October Stretch as long as possible this year.

I agree that fall is the nicest of the seasons for me, I think. The colors of the trees, I find it romantic somehow. That is why we are bringing my sister in law with her new husband from Brazil for the first time to Canada in October this year.

I must admit, when I go to Brazil in winter from Canada, it's always a mind **** for me. I forget it's Christmas there. No snow, 40 degrees, my mind can't accept Christmas without snow.

it's funny but true, the first time a saw snow fall i was more exited than my kids. I can imagine getting sick of shoveling snow but imagine having two seasons ( blazing hot and cold with pea-soup fog) with that said the halloween season is by far the best!

Is what the old Encyclopedia Britannica used to say about this place, Mount Carroll, Ill. (32 below)
First time teaching school teachers hired here would shutter and curse as they read this, "All my little paycheck will be going to the heating man!"
Yes it probably did.
The fall changes do affect many people. I have seen a few Octobers that the weather was too warm and summer like and almost nobody came to my haunted house till the last week of October.
If November stays mild or at least predictable weather-wise I can see very good November weekends, mostly many haunt workers from other haunted houses!
I have been open almost every night here for the last 22 years.
(I must be commited to Halloween, if it wasn't for Halloween, I would just be "commited"!)
A few weeks ago a family was here from Austrailia and my Wife was asking their little girl about Santa Claus and Christmas when it is so warm, ex cetra. I guess they have Santa plus a surfing Kangaroo? Santa gets carried on the back of a ute, a 4 wheel drive truck.
After a mere 22 years I finally figured out how to Not have to shovel the snow in my backyard maze, I cut a Dutch door/window into the wall of my exit tunnel so everyone can see the items in the backyard I talk about during the tour.
Shoveling a maze is Real Stupid, since after a short while you run out of places to put the snow!
Once when I didn't get my maze shoveling done before customers arrived I had to do that "Shinning" thing and walk backwards leaving a false trail in the maze so they wouldn't find my hiding place from which I scared them.
At my advanced age I have discovered a real health advantage to not being in the winter climate. Once when in Florida for a week or two, when I came back here almost everyone in this little town was sick, I never got sick that winter! I missed it!

I think we here in socal get alot more involvement and in the halloween spirit as more people decorate and take part in almost every city due to our minimal rains and bad weather. Dont get me wrong as many states and other towns have great spirit as well! But we here have many theme parks, stores and shops that cater to Halloween throughout the year. That is why I love California but hate the political nightmares that come with it...

Glad to see more californians coming out the woods! Hello Neighbors!