Happy Halloween 2020

Another Halloween, this time marked by the Corona virus, otherwise known as Covid-19.  City officials discouraged trick-or-treating, but Matthew still wanted to go.  Very few people were out trick-or-treating, and not that many houses were offering.  Our expedition was much shorter.  Many of the houses that offered candy just put a bunch in a bowl in front of the stoop for the kids to just take. 

OK, another evil looking costume this year.  If you click the tag at the bottom of this on Halloween and read past year’s posts you will find I do not like evil costumes.  Matthew goes this year as some sort of crazy clown, or is this The Joker from Batman?  I don’t know, and I don’t really care. 

Matthew got a reasonable amount, but it mostly consisted of two houses.   One was from one house that normally gives a lot but wasn’t getting ringers.  So Matthew profited.  The other was from my mother who emptied all the chocolates she had into his bag.  She wasn’t going to answer the door for anyone else, so she figured let him have them all.  Here she is doing just that.

 

She’s been looking a little frail.  And finally, here’s Matthew without the mask.

Matthew Monday: Halloween 2019

Halloween was last week and as I do every year I post pictures of Matthew in his costume.  Two years ago Matthew was an evil character for the first time, a zombie convict.  I didn’t like the fact that he was an evil character.  Last year they—him and my wife, they’re both against me—sort of appeased me by having him go as a ninja.  Not that a ninja is necessarily a good guy, but he doesn’t have to be an evil character.  It’s a bit ambiguous.  This year they couldn’t care less what I wanted.  Matthew went as an evil clown. 

I guess the Joker movie that’s been out has influenced the costume fad.  It’s not my cup of tea, but Matthew says Halloween is supposed to be about evil characters.  Is that true?  It has to be evil?  If you click on the Halloween tag at the bottom of this post, all the Halloween posts through the years will come up and you can see Matthew’s costumes through the years.

Well, here he is without the mask.

Now this year you don’t see him in a picture with my mother as has been my tradition.  This year my mother was in the hospital through Halloween for a severe and stubborn case of bronchitis.  Today she should be coming out.  She will have been there nine days.