Well, this year it happened again: the Great Pumpkin passed us over.
In years past, I understood. We lived down of a long drive at the end of a dead-end street. Not exactly a big area for foot traffic. This year, though, we were on a more-traveled street. I decorated the front of the house, and because New Zealand shops did not supply my needs this year, the decorations were handmade. Dammit, I was sincere.
Of course, it might have helped if my home were not quite so Dark & Forbidding.
Good thing I'm moving on Wednesday!Many people I know got trick or treaters. I have an enormous bowl full of candy.
Hmm.....
Maybe that's not *all* bad, after all.
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we got nary a trick or treater ourselves, even though I walked around the neighborhood earlier in the day trying to recruit by promising lots of candy.
(In answer to Charles' comment;) In all fairness, how do people generally take it when a big, shaggy man wanders around the neighborhood saying (in effect,) "Want some candy, little boy?"
I still say next year we dress up & run & hide around the woods here, scaring the hell out of kids.
Okay, so maybe the days I spent beforehand building awareness by cruising the parks and playgrounds in my primer-gray panel van with FREE CANDY painted on the side in nail polish-- you think that might have backfired?!
;->
we never get t or t-er's here--never have. We're pretty much off the beaten path and they'd have to drive... When our kids were littles, we'd go to friends' houses to collect the stash.
LOL @ Lana
We went out trick or treating and no one had any sweeties :[
Strangley enough Halloween is big here! My boys though still foundly remember their two Halloween's in Houston! Nothing will ever compare to the pillow cases of candy :-)
We had gobs of beggars last year, so I bought a huge bag of candy. Then only 15 kids showed up. Usually, I choose candy I like in case this happens, but this year I was in a hurry and just grabbed the largest bag. :-(
Debra, I understood your situation a lot better once I saw that your hometown has been 'gently resisting change since 1834'. I also almost wet myself laughing!
If y'all haven't checked out Debra's site, it's so worth a look!
Liz, isn't Halloween an import from your land?
Or is that our Midwestern custom of sacrificing strangers to ensure a good harvest? ;-)
Shauna, we have something here that's made from barley! I'm imagining a big bag of that, and it ain't pretty...
We only had one kid, after Steve bought THREE giant bags of candy. It all went to the office with him Monday.
The complex I live in holds a community get together for the families with children to avoid those door to door interruptions. My view out to street level revealed parents going with their little ones in costumes.
Steve, Halloween as a sugar fest for kids may well have been born in the US but here in the Middle East I still find it a strange combination! But then of course there are the jinns (spelling?)
That's a seriously cute little pumpkin.
Puss
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