All-hallow-even

Halloween in the ‘Wood was a great time. Brian, Rob, and Lynn came over and we handed out treats to all the kiddies and adults (!) who came by. To set the scene, we had dragged the firepit into the driveway and had a tub of beer and wine behind us, we had a great fire going, scary sounds CDs playing, Magnus hanging out with us, and we ordered pizza for dinner. So, it was pretty much a great time even before adding in the Trick-or-Treat aspect.

 

Now, I would like to point out that there is absolutely no way to predict how many trick-or-treaters will come. I had guessed there would be 50-60 since this is an area near a school where kids walk all the time. I mean, other people said they had 5, or 10, or 20 kids, and I was thinking I’d have “a bunch,” so, I got 48 Star Crunches and 48 Oatmeal Crème Pies plus a small bag of Nestle Crunch Minis in case, by some odd chance, I had more than 96 kids. Sidebar: is it a coincidence that “Trick-or-Treat,” when acronymized, becomes “TOT”? I think not. At any rate, ToT in the ‘Wood was from 6:00 to 8:30, and by 7:15, we were at the bottom of the barrel of Little Debbies. I could not believe it. Brian made a mad dash to the store to replenish our supplies while I raided the pantry and found some bags of cheese nips, some packs of cheese-n-crackers, and a bunch of little boxes of raisins (which Lynn refused to hand out – hee!). Rob stayed cool as a cucumber the whole time this was going on, while the rest of us were in full-on panic mode. I mean, when you’re sitting in the driveway with a full fire going, it’s pretty hard to cover up the fact that you’re out of candy. Brian came back with 4 more boxes of Little Debbies and about 5 bags of candy. I think we ended up giving away close to 4 of the back-up bags, and then toward the end of ToT time, we had an entire bag of candy left, so Lynn started handing out giant handfuls of candy and she even called some kids to come up the drive and take the last of it.

 

Once ToT was officially over, we burned the pizza boxes, which made a ROARING fire and also got us accused of trying to burn down the neighbors’ tree. Hee!