It's 8, and I've only had 3 groups of kids in the past hour. Hardly any teens this year.
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Sue - Oct 31, 2011 1:58:36 pm PDT #4046 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Hil R. - Oct 31, 2011 2:00:39 pm PDT #4047 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.
Sue - Oct 31, 2011 2:11:26 pm PDT #4048 of 30001
hip deep in pie
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.
Atropa - Oct 31, 2011 2:12:05 pm PDT #4049 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Polter-Cow - Oct 31, 2011 2:15:26 pm PDT #4050 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What does one do at a wine tasting when one doesn't drink wine?
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2011 2:16:33 pm PDT #4051 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2011 2:17:17 pm PDT #4052 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
What does one do at a wine tasting when one doesn't drink wine?
Eat cheese and, as the evening progresses, laugh at the drunks.
Anne W. - Oct 31, 2011 2:17:24 pm PDT #4053 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
What does one do at a wine tasting when one doesn't drink wine?
Sip water, nibble crackers, talk?
Ginger - Oct 31, 2011 2:18:13 pm PDT #4054 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Apparently I am a Very Bad Pagan for getting married on Samhain.
As Calli said, Samhain is a time of new beginnings and feasting. It sounds like a wedding to me. Also, your dead ancestors could come.
I love and admire a number of pagans, but I'd be hard put to be too dogmatic about modern paganism, which does include a lot of making shit up. We simply don't much record of Celtic religions that weren't filtered through Christian sensibilities. We know there were bonfires, and that home fires were relit from them.
le nubian - Oct 31, 2011 2:20:18 pm PDT #4055 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so, apparently the kids in my neighborhood decided to come out in force after my bitching. almost all of my (4 bags) of candy is gone!