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[mbjj]

Fairfield is awash with rats. We trap several every week. I will happily give them a bad rap. A guy we talked to at a local nursery said many people report that the rats are eating their veggie gardens. We found that with our greenhouse this year. They dug their way in and ate stuff. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Did that rooming house on Rockland ever set up their chicken egg operation?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 October 2021 - 03:20 PM.

[todd]

Did that rooming house on Rockland ever set up their chicken egg operation?

https://youtu.be/aZuWvwrEl_I

[Nparker]

I am hearing more fireworks tonight than I ever remember from past years. 

[todd]

I am hearing more fireworks tonight than I ever remember from past years. 

Still nothing like the old days when they were legal. probably more people figuring out you can just buy them online.

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[Victoria Watcher]

TC has a map to the three houses that have a Halloween display this year.

 

https://www.timescol...isplays-4676642

[max.bravo]

Where's the best neighbourhood for trick or treating these days? 

 

My kids want to run between houses and maximize their haul this year. My immediate neighbourhood is pretty rural-ish, so we usually go to Sidney. But the kids are demanding more this year.

Edited by max.bravo, 28 October 2022 - 12:04 PM.

[lanforod]

We get enough kids, so go elsewhere. Perhaps Royal bay, seems like high volume, short distance between SFH.

[Victoria Watcher]

Where's the best neighbourhood for trick or treating these days?

My kids want to run between houses and maximize their haul this year. My immediate neighbourhood is pretty rural-ish, so we usually go to Sidney. But the kids are demanding more this year.

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Blanshard Court used to be pretty good. 90 doors, close.

Townhouses near Columbine Way.

I bet Westhills is decent.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 October 2022 - 12:26 PM.

[lanforod]

kinda lousy walking territory for Westhills though. Hilly!

[Victoria Watcher]

There is a subdivision or two near the hospital and behind 6 Mile that have close houses.

[max.bravo]

Westhills is the frontrunner. Guaranteed concentration of families in that neighbourhood, and if Christmas decorations are any indication of Halloween spirit, I'm guessing the houses will be well stocked for trick or treaters. Parking might be a pain though.

 

Can I park in your driveway Lanforod?

Edited by max.bravo, 28 October 2022 - 01:22 PM.

[JohnsonStBridge]

Oak Bay Avenue businesses host trick or treating in the afternoon, once dark you can move on to the surrounding neighbourhood. 

[lanforod]

Westhills is the frontrunner. Guaranteed concentration of families in that neighbourhood, and if Christmas decorations are any indication of Halloween spirit, I'm guessing the houses will be well stocked for trick or treaters. Parking might be a pain though.

 

Can I park in your driveway Lanforod?

 

Nice try, but I'm not anywhere near there

[max.bravo]

Interesting article I just read that makes a strong case for Halloween's origins as not being a pagan/harvest festival. That old story might be more myth than substance. 

 

https://historyforat...alloween-pagan/

 

 

IS HALLOWEEN PAGAN?

 

The idea that all the traditional holidays and festivals of the year are “pagan” in origin and were simply “stolen by the Church” is one that has permeated popular culture and is repeated without question in newspaper, magazine and online articles. It is perhaps not surprising that harried journalists and underpaid online content writers are uncritical about these claims, but it is more strange that prominent atheists are as well, given they are meant to be sceptics who check their facts and “question everything”. Unfortunately, many anti-theistic polemicists cannot resist a chance to get in a jab at any aspect of Christianity being “really pagan”, so every October we see supposed rationalists parroting pseudo history about the “pagan origins of Halloween”, with no sign of any fact-checking, let alone engagement with scholarship. In fact, the claim that Halloween is “pagan” is largely a nineteenth century myth.