Close to Home by John McPherson for October 30, 2020

Hey you two that’s not the moon. It’s The Great Pumpkin rising from the pumpkin patch on the other side of the hill.

That’s the man in the moon?

Someone call Linus.

That WOULD be worth seeing.

Shouldn’t it be blue this year?

Full moon – and a blue moon – on Halloween this year. That has to be a rare event. I hope it will be the last thumbs-down sign we get from God or Mother Nature this year.

If you’re out and about, watch for werewolves.

The way this year is going this very well could happen. 2020, the year the whole world wants to forget.

Pumpkin Moon?!!!

KIDS! If it’s the guy across the street again, just call the cops yourselves.

Is that what Halloween blue moon looks like?

I hope that, some day, when we get Google glasses or some other sort of virtual eye wear, we can program in sights such as that.

The Great Pumpkin!! It is real! Linus would be so happy. :)

It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Linus WAS right all along…..

I’m being followed by its shadow.

Like I always say, there’s a price to be paid for being a kid! But sometimes karma goes all ape$#!+ on adults though….aaaaaand comes back around.

My Grandma told me a story about ol’ Grampa and karma once. She said that he screwed up big one day when they were in church on a Sunday. It was quiet ‘cause the pastor was reading and she said he leaned over to her, giggled and whispered: “oops, I just let go a silent one… whaddya think I should do?” She said: “well, you could start by turning your hearing aid up, because it was anything but silent!”

She said ol’ Grampa was embarrassed, and said: “Oh my God, was it really that loud?” She said: “Well, you’re sitting on a church pew made from solid wood and that sorta amplifies sound, so I’d have to say it was only comparable to… oh, I don’t know, a MACHINE GUN!!!”

Heh-heh-heh……. Karma.

Hey Bleeb, don’t look this way, check out that moon.

Someday the moon may be carved up like this as we run out of minerals here on earth. There go the tides!

Bleeb did some decorating for Halloween!

It’s the Great Pumpkin! He’s finally coming.

Mom and Dad have other things on there mind, as Bleeb awaits in the bushes. “You kids go trick or treat for a while, take your time, and don’t forget the rich people’s houses on the other side of town.” “They always hand out good stuff, right Mom.”

“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon”

- W. Shakespeare

“Moonlight can drive man to madness and lovers to swoon, but this night, for one last and glorious moment, it shines bright as a grim harbinger of dawn.”

- L. Niven/B. Wright

……parked beside the ocean on our (blue) moonlight drive…..

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