halloween

Halloween this year was just not the old thing I remember from my childhood. Our home is on a street that has no street lighting so it is pretty dark. Most of the kids in the Neighborhood don't come down our dark street to get goodies as the pickings are easier on the newer parts of our area where the houses are closer together and there is lots of lighting. Last year Marlene sat and waited for the ghosts and goblins to come to our house and get the loot that we had for them. We waited and waited and and a total of 6 children came to our house, 4 of them were our grandchildren. We had no bunches of kids running around in their costumes with their pumpkin lights and happy smiles. It was pretty sad.

So this year we got a lot of candy. We were ready!!! We got a couple of boxes of candy bars under the premise that "If you build it, they will come", remember the movie Field of Dreams. We were ready. Well, I did eat all of the Snicker Bars before the big day. Then Marlene reminded me that the Temple was open on the night of the 31st of October and it was our night to work. So we bagged the whole thing. We turned the porch light on and placed a bowl of penny candy on the stoop. When we got back home that night some of was missing but we had no way of knowing the identity of the kids that made off with our loot. I talked to Stuart, the oldest of our neighbor grand kids, about the candy. He said "Grandpa we didn't go to your house there was no one home". So it looks like it was another failed attempt to share our candy bars. Well I guess it is not a entire loss, I have still a lot of Butter Finger bars left for Me.