"Dog3" <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in message
4...
> I suppose everyone that participates is ready for the little goblins to
> ring the doorbell this evening. Anyone have any other party plans? I'm
> home alone tonight so I'm doing nothing special. I'll have left over
roast
> beef made into sandwiches with horseradish cream. I think I'll make a pot
> of soup and a small salad also. We way overbought candy. We only get a
> handful of trick or treaters and we have tons of candy and I bought a big
> box of individual serving size Cheetos also. I'll take them for lunch
> next week if we don't hand them out. The mini Milkyways will be the last
to
> be given out. Those are mine! They'll only be given out if everything
else
> is gone.
>
> Michael <- stingy with the Milkyway bars
>

We had a huge turnout this year. There were kids from other neighborhoods
that are brought in by bus or van to trick or treat in the "safer" areas, so
we ended up with about 5 pieces left out of 10 bags of candy.
We usually take our daughter and my niece trick or treating around our area,
with one of us staying behind for that part of the evening to hand out
candy. Then we all go to the Great Pumpkin. This is a way cool set up that
our neighbors have been doing for 40 years now. Anyone curious can check it
out he
http://www.gr8pumpkin.com/
It's really a treat for the kids.
We always decorate a bit more, shall we say, enthusiastically, than most
people...Halloween is a big deal around our house. We have zombies, demons,
a giant tarantula complete with victim, a life-size vampire bat/man,
gargoyles, corpses, tombstones, spiderwebs, and of course, a giant
slobbering rat. On Halloween night, my brother in law sets the lighting and
then the fog machines. Tonight it was me who stayed to hand out candy, and
it was cracking me up that the one thing that scared kids the most was the
fog! They'd be fine seeing the monsters and ghoulies, but the second that
fog would roll in they'd get scared. It was funny.
Anywho, after the trick or treaters slow down to a slow trickle, we leave
the rest of the candy out and go get something to eat and check out the
costumes at the Halloween parties about town and in Hillcrest and the
Gaslamp. There's always some very elaborate ones. Tonight my favorite was a
character from the Dark Crystal.
Hope everyone had fun and was safe!

kimberly