Starting this a day early because who doesn’t need something a little “light” to read and think about.
Any plans for Halloween? Passing out candy/treats? What kind? Any events at work? Have a costume? Baking/cooking anything fun?
I work at a children’s hospital - this afternoon we will watch Superheroes rapel down the children’s hospital stopping by windows to greet patients. Halloween parade follows on the peds floor and my co-workers and I are hosting a treat station.
Tomorrow night we will pass out candy. Our beagle/corgi will reluctantly don either his hot dog or turtle costume. I have chocolate bars, twizzlers, and mini Playdoh cans to pass out. Maybe more, can’t remember all I bought!
I light up the house for trick or treat time. ALL the lights on inside. We are on a corner double lot and when the house is lit up it just glows. People always comment on how good it looks!
“…this afternoon we will watch Superheroes rapel down the children’s hospital stopping by windows to greet patients. Halloween parade follows on the peds floor and my co-workers and I are hosting a treat station.”
We’ll be driving up to our old neighborhood to continue a tradition that we started 18 years ago and our neighbor picked up when we moved. The couples from the five houses around our old house sit in a semi-circle around a blazing chiminea in the driveway and pass out candy to the hordes of trick-or-treaters (this neighborhood still has hordes). This way, the kids hit five houses at once, and we adults can catch up on the past year. The “tradition” is that the hosting house also has a keg and passes out free beer to the accompanying parents. We get a lot of repeat visitors, and we are sure to see ALL of our old neighborhood friends.
Tonight H and I are carving pumpkins. On Sunday I made Halloween shaped sugar cookies and we decorated them. Tomorrow we go to our friends house nearby that has a great neighborhood with many houses decorated. None of us have younger kids any longer, but we eat pizza and give out candy then take a walk around to see all the decorations.
Passing out candy in my costume. Hoping to sit on the front porch and intercept trick or treaters before they ring the doorbell so my dog doesn’t go nuts.
First time with a residence that likely will get a lot of Trick or Treaters in about 15 years. I have the ground floor apartment of an old turreted Victorian style house (my front door is the house front door). It would be a GREAT house to decorate, big wrap around porch. But I got rid of all our decorations when I downsized. But I’m looking forward to handing out candy! I did ping the landlord yesterday to ask them to please clear the leaves from the sidewalk before Wed evening.
Over the past week or so I went to a tennis party where we played in costume, and a dog costume contest where we dressed our dog as “Tito’s Vodka” and he won a prize.
Tomorrow night I will hand out candy. We get quite a few trick-or-treaters. I bought two bags of candy at Costco and will probably hand out at least a bag and a half.
I saw the local corgi club walking at the lake with their dogs in costume this weekend. They were sooo cute. My favorite was the one dressed as a loaf of Wonder Bread.
I got candy for the last two years and didn’t have one trick or treater. This year, I’m not buying any candy at all. Lights will be out. Actually, we won’t even be here!
Around here most kids go to parties or town trunk or treat events.
I’ve spent the day wrapping my house in spider webs and hanging ginormous spiders. Each year the spiders have different “victims” wrapped in webbing. One year it was a full-sized stuffed dog who looked just like our golden retriever. This year it’s a flock of mostly, but not all, skeletonized flamingos. Every year we have a realistic looking baby doll hanging in the largest web. In order to hang the largest spider (about 8-10 feet leg tip to leg tip) I have to worm my way out a 2 foot opening in a 3rd story window and hold on by my legs while I use both arms to get the spider hung. Each time I do it I envision the story in the local newspaper about the idiot who died falling out a 3rd story window. :))
We get a ton of trick or treaters, usually in the range of 4-500, but as many as 800 in a couple of years when there were power outages in surrounding towns. This year the weather’s supposed to be nice so I’m planning for 5-600. We hand out full sized bars because it’s the only way to get the kids in and out quickly when the big rush happens.
Ok…anyone here love PayDay candy bars? If so…get a bag of candy corn and a jar of salted dry roasted peanuts yum yum yum. Tastes exactly like a payday candy bar when you have the nuts and the candy corn!
I’m scheduled with a home care client so that she has someone to pass out candy. Easy shift for once.
I threw a party for the Sunday school kids during their lesson time. Wrapped plastic bowling pins in gauze and added eye for mummy bowling. They had pop corn during the lesson. Gave out battery powered light up pumpkin eye glasses.
I’ve organized a pizza and salad lunch party at work, we encourage costumes…they’re mostly an under 30 lot (about 15 of us total) - we will also do a drawing for a gift card for those who submitted “proof” of flu shot. At home it’s quiet, I suspect the neighborhood kids either are somewhere else, or just not trick or treating. A friend has a 2 year old and doing “trunk or treat” at their church this afternoon. What a sweet idea. Have fun everyone!
Our town library has a “trunk or treat” where we decorate our cars and trucks and hand out candy in the parking lot. I’m trying to figure out how much spider webbing I need to buy to wrap my Subaru! Last year, we took the truck and set up a tent in the bed. My husband wore a bear costume and stayed in the tent. I was the camper outside, handing out the candy in front of a fake campfire. (That was sort of lame, actually!)
