Halloween

Halloween by far is my favorite time of the year. This is a problem living in the Bible Belt. Anyone who's favorite holiday ISN'T Christmas is a heathen, a heretic and a pariah. (Guess I was wrong when I told my 10th grade English teacher that I would never use that word.) And not only that, but if you call it a holiday whew...you would have thought you put down Walmart or something.

As anyone that grew up in the same small city that I did can attest (and yes I know you are my only follower right now..but hell who knows, maybe others will follow soon?? probably not) but anyway..anyone can attest to the fact that Medford, OR is not exactly the Halloween capital of the world. While we did go trick or treating, I do not remember any of the cool stuff available during the halloween month as I have found in the 6 short years I have lived in Tennessee. For example, there is a farm that harvests corn. I say that half jokingly because that's not how the farm operates at all. Around the first part of September these "farmers" carve a pattern into their cornfield, this year they chose to celebrate the 100 years of boy scouting in the US and have that as their maze. Lasting from about the end of September until November 1st, you can come out and venture through the maze, play on the playground etc during the day. And at night, they turn the maze and the barn into haunted places. I never was one for haunted anything not even being a fan of scary movies. But something about this is just awesome.

And I have found what I want to do to become a millionaire. I am going to buy about 100 acres of land, plant some corn and every October host these haunted places. The way I figure it, they see at least 50,000 people a year at these places, each paying an average of 25 bucks a peace. I am not a math genius, but that is well over a million bucks right there. That doesn't even take into account the concessions nor the actual crop that I will eventually sell. Even after I get done paying the expenses and salary of my employees, I am still going to be rich pretty quick. So who's in with me?? :)