tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090907602832466096.post2756707691394464639..comments2024-01-11T03:46:07.465-06:00Comments on Love me, love my Winnipeg: Hallowe'en (sour) Apples!Winnipeg Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295414233123710760noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090907602832466096.post-48918535054670803932012-11-18T09:43:16.673-06:002012-11-18T09:43:16.673-06:00"...and another one is the abandoned one with..."...and another one is the abandoned one with the rear section of the house caving in..."<br /><br />Still? Amazing how the By-law guys "hands are tied". <br /><br />Once upon a time a Building Inspector could look at a building, consider it "structurally unsound" and order it demolished. Health could do the same thing. They'd mow down anything they could, and put the tab on the tax bill of the property. They tore down dozens of viable houses around the turn of the millennium.<br /><br />Where did it all go wrong?RMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15871453117861450287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090907602832466096.post-33261683351958101792012-11-02T11:52:15.213-05:002012-11-02T11:52:15.213-05:00Lots of things are different now from when we (I t...Lots of things are different now from when we (I think we're about the same age) were young. Remember Unicef boxes? I was sad to hear they phased those out a few years ago. I miss that old Halloween "feeling" too.<br /><br />In Glenelm there are lots of the same types of trick or treaters you describe (babies in strollers, teens with no costumes). This year for various reasons we didn't give out candy, and I realize now that I didn't miss it at all. I felt pretty jaded after the last couple years.<br /><br />It's weird. The last year that I went out trick or treating, I was in Grade 8, and I distinctly remember feeling vaguely ashamed because I realized pretty quickly that night that I was now too old to be doing it. I would think that that realization comes naturally to everyone at some point, but I guess not. Sugar is pretty addictive, after all :)<br /><br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12305295933527639523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090907602832466096.post-1771459232781983442012-11-01T20:13:29.483-05:002012-11-01T20:13:29.483-05:00Skinartia, great idea about the Family Centre!
I ...Skinartia, great idea about the Family Centre!<br /><br />I suppose you're right, by the end of my trick or treating days pillowcases were the norm.<br /><br />I guess what really just disappoints me is feeling like I'm not helping to create that memory that I hold so fondly. We never went to the mall or community centre to go trick or treating - we went to the neighbours. People we knew would pretend not to recognize us in our costumes, the rush of warm air every time the door opened at another house - that sort of thing.<br /><br />Winnipeg Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295414233123710760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090907602832466096.post-89108319498900317572012-11-01T10:13:58.781-05:002012-11-01T10:13:58.781-05:00We're about the same age and I always used a p...We're about the same age and I always used a pillowcase while trick or treating. <br /><br />I can understand your disappointment. I'd be really down about that, too, and not participate. What if you would buy less candy and only have the "I'm home" vibe for a lesser period of time? Or what about volunteering at the Indian & Metis Friendship Centre for their Safe Halloween Event next year? You can see lots of cute kids in costumes then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com