First wave has come through, mainly with the littlest ones in costume.

I haven't seen any around here, and I just walked a couple blocks back from the library. And we have no candy, alas.

I have candy, and the makings for chili! And zuchini bread, which my grandma used to bake, and I loved it so much that when she gave us frozen loaves to take home, I would start nibbling at corner like a mouse before it thawed.

I do not love the grating. I hope I get the wee food processor I asked my mom for for Xmas.

I am reading "Bag of Bones" by King, and after the kiddies go through, I am going to watch the sequel to The Descent on Netflix.

Kids lasted for less than an hour--mostly around our block. But we managed to score several full sized candy bars! And a friend of ours down the street had a single serving, chilled bottle of white Zin for me.

No kids, so far. I don't expect any.

And a friend of ours down the street had a single serving, chilled bottle of white Zin for me.

Wisconsin is awesome. Sorry if I missed this, but were the kids dressed as?

Sorry if I missed this, but were the kids dressed as?

Iron Man and Supergirl. Owen made sure Liv knew that she was in the DC Universe and he was in the Marvel Universe.

I've had about 25 kids so far. Which I think is more than I had this time last year. It's cold and rainy here, so I think most people are out early.

Oz has been sitting by the front door watching since the first trick or treater arrived. I think he's pretty freaked out. One tiny girl dressed as a cat got so excited when she saw Oz and then cried when her mom stopped her from coming into the house to see him. But that was fine because Oz then tried ot escape, only to run back into the house instead of having to confront Supergirl.

I have eaten so many rockets, I may die.

Devi's behind the loveseat, Loki's upstairs somewhere (it got to be too much for him and Mister Kitty keeps running out, much to the kids' delight.

I am now back in PA after going to DC for the rally. DebetEsse and I stayed with Raq. We were standing a bit in front of 7th Street, so just at the back of the official rally area. There were a TON of people behind us, well beyond the borders of the area reserved for the rally. I was actually able to see OK, because I was lucky enough to be able to stand on a bench and see over the heads of the people in front of me. (Some people behind us were complaining that the bench-standing people were selfish, when people first stood on the bench, but I figured that I wasn't adding anything to the view-blocking, since I was the shortest person on the bench, and also, standing on the bench only made me about two inches taller than the guy standing on the ground next to the bench, anyway.)

We could sometimes hear what was going on -- it seemed like, each time they switched the sound settings because of a change in scene or microphone or anything, it went down to too-soft, and then it took a few minutes for them to get it back up to levels where we could hear. There weren't any speakers set up to get beyond 7th Street.

A bunch of people were in Halloween costumes. There were several Waldos, which is really a great costume choice for a rally. About an hour into the rally, one of the Waldos started crowd-surfing from the back of the crowd toward the front. I don't know how far he got, but from where I could see, it looked like at least a block and a half. As he went by, people started chanting, "Waldo! Waldo!" A little while in front of where I was, he started losing balance and half-falling into the crowd. Everyone groaned and seemed disappointed. A little boy sitting on his father's shoulders shouted out, "Come on, Waldo! You can do it!" And then the crowd got Waldo back up and he continued his journey.