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Oh that's so sad
Poor things

 

At 5am yesterday the local McDonalds opened up to sell $5 Chiefs Super Bowl flags to benefit Ronald McDonald house.

By 5:30am they'd already sold 800 of them and had a long line.

This went on all over the city.

 

Today is the first day we’re not running the AC here in Dallas!

 

My Nextdoor app is exploding (relatively speaking) over a controversy about yard signs. It would appear that many people are filled with rage at the sight of their neighbors' political lawn signs, so they sneak over when they think no one is home and steal them. But--ha-HA! Everyone has Nest cameras now! So folks are repositioning their cameras so that they no longer point at things like entrance points to the house, and instead point at their lawn signs. I know this because they're all posting about it on the internet.

I have not yet robbed anyone's house, but sometimes I think it would be funny. (I'd leave their lawn signs, though.)

 

I can neither confirm nor deny that I have robbed someone's house. The absence of lawn signs makes that particular issue irrelevant.

 

EARTHQUAKE 2! Another Earthquake has rocked Leighton Buzzard , this time a 2.1. I'll keep you updated on any casualties.

 

Our city typically comes with the "Trick or Treat" ordinance for this upcoming Halloween right about now. So far? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Our neighborhood is assuming that going door to door trick or treating will be banned plus we really do not want the kids doing that therefore my wife and our neighbor's wife (they are good friends) have deemed themselves the unofficial Halloween planning committee (both my neighbor's husband and I have told them that if either one of them lets their ego get the best of them and turns into Angela Martin from "The Office" they are getting stripped of their duties therefore expect Halloween to be planned by the equivalent of Jim and Dwight) and are trying to gauge what everyone wants to do. The original idea was to just do a "Truck or Treat" but I am in the camp that if we can make it work, a Halloween parade for the kids where they walk around the neighborhood and people throw them candy would be a lot more fun and feel more like Halloween because at least will be in our neighborhood with their costumes getting candy instead of a parking lot. Will see what comes off it though everyone is in agreement will do something, just not knocking on doors.

 

I think I read that some places in the US have already banned trick or treating due to the virus.
What about a Halloween version of an Easter Egg hunt? Is there a central area where you could hide candy bars (or something like that) for the kids to find? They could still do that in costume.

 

Yes @LAJ_FETT as LA County and some other parts have "banned" Trick or Treating already. Here they have not but I assume they will. And we thought about something like that but keep in mind this is Chicago at the end of October and the weather is unpredictable as you can possibly imagine. Give you an example: A few years ago it was absolutely perfect for it. Low 60's and plenty of sun. Last year? It snowed FIVE INCHES on Halloween. We have a picture of our daughter playing in the snow on that day which became part of our Christmas card since she was dressed up as Elza last year. So we really cannot plan on doing something like Trick or Treat because of the crazy weather plus the fields even if it is nice will be massive mud piles and the kids will be made if their costumes get ruined. Your idea would work IMHO well in other parts of the country where it's warmer/less wet on Halloween.

 

Oh well. It was just a thought.

 

Good thought IMHO for sure! For our friends in warmer climates I think that can be really cool. Just again Chicago Halloween's unlike you have ever seen as again it can be anything and everything. One year it can be 70 and sunny. The next? It can be like 1994 when it is freezing rain SIDEWAYS and they had to cancel all trick or treat events:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-10-31-0610310099-story.html

 

Backyard deck collapsed in the Sandbridge area of Virginia Beach. Two people taken to the hospital but are expected to make a full recovery.

 

I'd venture a guess that she wasn't exactly sober while doing that.

 

well that's another video for You've Been Framed.

 

I actually saw that story on BBC. Hooray for your local news going international?

In my local news, the famous pan fried chicken restaurant in the area is opening an express version in my home town in October. I am ecstatic to try it.

 

Slightly missed that one by ten days... xD

I didn't attend this year. A friend of mine did, and said "it's not as good as mine, you'll see what I mean in October"

Local news today is the ban of a number of fairs, and the restriction of event size to 1,000.

This is horrid news for our Stade Toulousain, one of the few Rugby teams at the pinnacle of that sport in Europe. Because of the costs to hold matches with a smaller public in attendance make it a losing proposition no matter what, if they're going to carry on without filing for bankruptcy, it'll mean home games with no public, and they can only afford three of those before running into serious trouble. The loss of revenue so far this season is already in excess of a million Euros, after they had to refund 32,000 seats that had been sold well in advance for yesterday's European quarterfinal.

 

Our town came out with guidelines for Trick or Treating. They are not "encouraging" it but came up with guidelines for it. Our neighborhood decided on a parade for the kids and either people will put bowls out at the end of their driveway or simply throw from the kids as they walk by. There is also having a few drive thru trick or treat events. I think were going to one that will be at the park district which will be on the 24th as it is going to be smaller then the one on the 31st plus it fits better in our schedule especially again our neighborhood is going to have a parade that afternoon which is when the big drive thru trick or treat event.

We are really trying to go out this year for the holidays. I like Halloween but don't love it yet I am trying to really overdo it this year both for our kids sake and really are own. I told my wife whatever weight I lost during the pandemic might be coming back on. Her response? "Don't worry I will just get your fat butt up with me in the morning to do a workout on top of your regular ones". My wife is working out twice a day now. Once in the morning before she gets ready for work and once before dinner. She is nuts!

 

Hurricane Teddy brushed past us. There was some wind and rain, but nothing worse than a normal summer thunderstorm.