Happy Freakin' Halloween, y'all.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:56 am

Time for the weenie roast and hayride!

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:00 am

Is that Royce with the big pink .... mace?

djm

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:49 pm

djm wrote:Is that Royce with the big pink .... mace?

djm

it aint lichen, that's fer sure

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:37 pm

Ok, ok...to ratchet the fright level down a few notches:

You can come trick or treat at my house!

2 girls at college, one watching scary movies at a friend's house, the kid in the other room absorbed by Guild Wars--with special H'ween features, and el esposo out of town, it's feeling a little lonely! (the dog who likes to lunge ferociously at the door will be let out of Olivia's bedroom later.) Weird. A very few years ago my kids would have been scrambling to get their costumes together.
I'm going to have to lose the hat, I'm afraid, as it's freaking out my cat.

Skeleton earrings too small to see. Dang.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:42 pm

In twenty minutes they'll be here! We've not got such lovely preparations made as emmline, but we do have two little pumpkins on the porch and the light on and a big bowl of candy----good candy, Reese's peanut butter cups, Kit Kats, mmmm. My kitties know something is up and can't settle down. Happy Halloween!

bradhurley · Post by **bradhurley** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:44 pm

I bought a bunch of goodies earlier today to give out in case we got some trick-or-treaters, but my 17-year-old stepdaughter and her boyfriend grabbed them and ate everything as soon as they came home this afternoon. Now I've got 12 kids ringing the doorbell (we've never had trick-or-treaters in the 4 years I've lived here!) and I have NOTHING to give them!!!

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:46 pm

We had a pumpkin on the front porch... until some malicious git smashed it all over the road in front of the house.

But, we'll be handing out candy (and small toys), anyway. Happy Halloween!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:49 pm

Cynth wrote:In twenty minutes they'll be here! We've not got such lovely preparations made as emmline, but we do have two little pumpkins on the porch and the light on and a big bowl of candy----good candy, Reese's peanut butter cups, Kit Kats, mmmm. My kitties know something is up and can't settle down. Happy Halloween!

I'm pretty low key compared to some folks around here. So far the TorT head count has been low. Brad--wish I could send you extra M&Ms.
You better turn off your lights and look not-home, which is what I'll do before 9 when the adult-sized-kids-who-should-really-know-better start turning up.

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:49 pm

bradhurley wrote:I bought a bunch of goodies earlier today to give out in case we got some trick-or-treaters, but my 17-year-old stepdaughter and her boyfriend grabbed them and ate everything as soon as they came home this afternoon. Now I've got 12 kids ringing the doorbell (we've never had trick-or-treaters in the 4 years I've lived here!) and I have NOTHING to give them!!!

Man, I hate it when that happens! Gonna turn out all the lights and huddle silently, or brazen it out by giving them canned goods, or granola bars?

I just lit the candle in the jack-o-lantern...too rural here to get any trick-or-treat posses, but it's the principle of the thing.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:54 pm

Two! Count'em. Two kids. I bought enough for fifty. I took all the leftovers to a friend's house (who went ballistic as they had enough left over for an army themselves). At least its all out of my reach.

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:24 pm

We had a pretty good turn-out here. There were sure a lot of swords and sickles and wands which were not under very good control when the wielders were picking out their candy. There was a really cute bumblebee named Grace and a very timid little Mickey Mouse and a fellow that had an amazing mask that blood suddenly spurted through when he did something special. I really hollered when I saw that one

and apparently I made his day. We have quite a lot of candy left over. The blue-wrapped Almond Joy's seemed the least popular. I'm going to sneak down now and get my little stash of leftovers together since my husband is taking it all to work tomorrow morning to get it out of the house. And yeah, any peanut butter cups that are still there are mine!!!

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:12 am

We only had 15 kids. And it wasn't raining or snowing or windy - just cold with temperatures in the 20 degree F range.

Good thing I bought candy that we all like.

We'll have dessert for quite a while.

Whistlin'Dixie · Post by **Whistlin'Dixie** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:50 am

emmline wrote:when the adult-sized-kids-who-should-really-know-better start turning up.

Awww...... Everybody likes Candy!!! I love Halloween!

The adult size kids around here come early, when all the little ones come!

We had a good turn-out on our street. the costumes this year were especially imaginative and excellent. We have a neighbor who puts on a haunted garage, so there's a pretty good draw of older trick-or-treaters, some taller than moi!!!!! (5'10")

I always buy bags of candy especially for our family!

And this is the first year since our kids were old enough to trick-or-treat that none of them went out.....

M