'Out Of Gas'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
S. and I got ditched! Sara's friends arrived and begged her to go with them, so she did. At least there's someone here to answer the door now.
She's a fifties girl, complete with pink poodle skirt and black sweater and black scarf, and she looks adorable.
I have the candy out and I have put the candle in the pumpkin. I'm ready.
I heard on the news that this year is going to be one of the smallest cohorts for children.
Just had four kids from an immigrant family. I only mention that because they don't seem to have gotten the whole "trick or treat" rhythm down. First one said "Thank you" in the same tone most kids say Trick or Treat. 2nd actually said Trick or Treat. 3rd brother said to me, "On Halloween, you get too much junk food." And finally the youngest, who looked about four, lurched toward me as if drunk, saying "CANDY!!!!" Hysterical. All of them did say thank you.
We got kids as early as 6:05. Mostly the little ones so far, though.
It's 8, and I've only had 3 groups of kids in the past hour. Hardly any teens this year.
My town announced that official trick-or-treating is from 6 to 8. I got the first people right around 6. I'll see if they actually stop at 8. I'm probably going to run out of candy around then, though.
I find people go out really early here. There are always already people out when I get home from work, just after 5. But they also seem to stop much earlier. Back in the day, we didn't go out until it was dark and stayed out until 9. Here 8 seems to be the cut off, but on my street it really slows down when it gets dark, around 7.
ya know, the veils between the living and dead worlds being so thin as to allow wandering.
Which, considering I'm the gothy girl of spooky doom (and, according to SOME people, a primary source wrt necromancy, which I think is hilarious, because I have brought back the dead (yet)), and Pete is Mr. Pragmatic, there really isn't a better day for us to have gotten married on.
ION, I have the cheese apple quick bread in the oven, and I am fully gothed up to hand out candy. Enormous veiled hat and all. And then after the trick or treaters are done, we're going out, to do ... something. I don't know what.
What does one do at a wine tasting when one doesn't drink wine?
I am freezing my ass off. Have resorted to tea for warmth. May start hobo fire in trash can next. Or maybe just go in and get gloves.