• This is the time of the year holidays get into full steam. It begins with Halloween when people put on a scary face and ends with New Year's day when people put on a new face. I could never figure out if the Halloween face was the New Year's Day face just that much older.
• I do not have much time for Halloween. Since the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage has put me on a strict diet that does not include candy, what is the purpose of going out on Halloween night begging for candy?
• It seems rather interesting that our holiday season starts out with people going around door-to-door begging for candy and ends New Year's Day making resolutions not to eat any more candy this year.
• I love all of the ingredients making up our holiday season whether it is Halloween candy or Thanksgiving turkey or New Year's Day pork and sauerkraut. These traditions that center on eating is right up my alley. If the alley is dark enough, my wife will not catch me in the act.
• One ingredient I really do not appreciate during the holiday season are all the grouches and complainers and sourpuss people that insist on trying to take the fun out of my holiday time.
• On the one hand, you have those who pretend they do not believe in God and yet during this time of the year they get all bent out of shape by the mere mention of

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