halloween dicision?

[emily_in_nc]

We now live in a very rural neighborhood of 10+ acre wooded lots, down a long dirt road, with no street lights and no children at all, so no trick-or-treaters. I can't say I miss it. All the doorbell ringing used to drive our poor dogs batty -- they'd bark like crazy until it was all over. Of course, now they're both gone , so I wouldn't mind it so much. But I don't even have an excuse to buy any candy now. I am sure there will be plenty of leftovers folks will bring into work tomorrow, so I'm glad I have my last weekday mtb ride of the season tomorrow after work to burn off the excess calories I am sure to ingest!

Emily

[Brandi]

we ended up putting up some decorations and passing out candy. Except for the one little sh*t who thought it would be funny to stick there hand in the candy basket and run away with a bunch of candy bars, it went really well. A lot of people said they hoped our friend who helps us gets well soon.
And we had an older couple do a reverse trick or treat and give us candy bars! That was sweet. We are done now and just hoping our one cat would please come in now that it is all over with!
Happy halloween everyone even to you grumpy one's!

[Zen]

A Gallup poll found that only 7 percent of Americans do not believe in telepathy, déjà vu, ghosts, past lives or other supernatural phenomena.
Boo.
Happy Halloweenie

[Tuckervill]

This Halloween was bittersweet for me. My youngest son turns 14 in 4 days. For the first time in his life I didn't make his costume (he bought stuff and used stuff from other years). For the first time, I didn't have to gripe about having to carve the pumpkin to his specs, because he did it all while I took a nap. I haven't even seen him since 7 pm because he spent the night out in the studio with friends.

But I'm also sad because, while our town doesn't "regulate" trick-or-treating, the Main Street merchants close the street and everyone showed up down there from 3-5. And because of the change to Daylight Savings Time, it was still daylight when that was over. Project Graduation had a carnival. A local filmmaker showed his new horror film for free at the theater. By the time it was dark, all the kids had gone home. I figured we'd get lots of people walking home, since we live just 3 blocks from Main. But no, we got exactly ONE family. I wish I had given them handfuls of candy.

I did take my dogs downtown and let my new pup get used to lots of new and interesting things. (She's not as scared of skateboards as he was, so that's good.) There was a firefighter dressed as McGruff, and my old dog went nuts over that. It was pretty hilarious.

But the saddest thing is my son didn't trick-or-treat at all, and so I didn't get any SMARTIES!!! :::boo-hoo-boo-hoo:::

Karen