Happy Halloween!

[Swing]

I hope you have some fun today. And remember to taste test the candy before giving an out.

 

[Weedygarden]

LOL! I will remember to turn off the lights and to eat my own purchase of Halloween candy! I may watch a Halloween movie, or maybe not.

 

[Snowman]

 

[UserNameTaken]

Happy Halloween! The stew is nearly ready.

 

[Weedygarden]

 

[Haertig]

I am sad this Halloween. This is the first year that I can remember when we did not have one single trick or treater. Not one! I remember years past almost running out of candy when we had like five of those giant Costco bags. Kid after kid - continuous waves coming to our door. We had lights all over the trees, decorations everywhere, a dozen carved pumpkins, spooky music played through the boom boxes we hauled downstairs and put int he windows.

And this year - not a single kid.

I'm thinking that some of this is that our neighborhood is getting older. Younger people - the kind that have kids - just cannot afford to buy a house any more, so they're just not around us. It is a bit devastating to me thinking about this. I felt genuine sadness for our giant fanged rat sitting there on the front porch, arms outstretched in menace, and not a single person coming to visit him. And it's not even a real living rat. But I'm still sad for it. The pumpkins sat there with their little tea candles flickering in the undisturbed darkness.

I nibbled a few of the excess Twix and Reeces Cups we now have sitting around, and they just don't taste good to me anymore. And the Hershey's bars? - the ones that are about 3/4" by 1/2" "fun sized" now - they were tasteless.

Halloween was a complete bust. I am depressed.

 

[Snowman]

All that happened/Changed in 1 Year...?!?

 

[Snowman]

 

[Ozarks hillbilly]