Halloween
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by Scott Gilbertson
Saturday, 01 November 2014
Me: What do you want to be for Halloween?
O: A bird?
L: A bird.
C: What kind of bird?
O: uh, um, an owl?
L: An owl.
C: An owl? Okay.
Ten hours of sewing later, C has created two owls:
A couple days before Halloween, [Bear Hollow Zoo][1] always puts together a thing called "Boo in the Zoo" for kids. It's mostly older kid stuff, learning about the animals and so on, but the girls love running around the zoo so we went. L is getting new molars, so she mostly chewed her hands, but as luck would have it the animal they had out for the kids when we were there was... an owl.
For Halloween we went over to the Boulevard area where a few of our friends live. We stopped in at a kids party and then walked the neighborhood. L and O quickly discovered that encountering strangers is easier to overcome when they give you candy. Halloween, delivering the life lessons.
Down the street from our friends there's a "ghost" band, the Ghosties, that plays every year. It just wouldn't be Halloween music without a Theremin. Pretty sure there are some well-known Athens musicians under those sheets.
[1]: http://www.athensclarkecounty.com/Facilities/Facility/Details/1