All the merchants hand out treats and goodies.
Same here!
Yes; it’s too early, but I hate to get caught setting it up. 
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It’s just after 8pm here in the Boston area. My town sent out a notice that there are no specific trick-or-treat hours tonight and that it’s at parents’ discretion when to take kids around (or let them just go around). I live in a condo development that is mostly retirees (and some commuters). We are also down an embankment from an elementary school. You’d think there’d be some kids, but there’s been none in the 8 years or so we’ve been here.
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Wow. We used to have kids “bussed in” to this neighborhood, but not so many come now.
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When I lived at a condo, the security desk handed out treats.
I have been plowing through the treats the last 3 weeks, having bought 60 funsize PB Cups, ~45 funsize Mars/ M&Ms, Snickers , Twix and 45 Crispy Crunch, Wunderbar, Mr Big and Caramilk.
I added 15 Laura Secord rice crisp milk chocolate, 10 spider creme eggs and 30 Oh Henry’s tonight at 5:48 pm. The first kids showed up at 7:16 pm and the last ones visited just before 8 pm. I think we had 14 kids. Some years we get around 30.
I let each kid take 5 fun size treats, plus one for each parent. We still have lots of candy.
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These are townhouse style condos, so no security or anything like that. Just a labyrinth of roads and buildings!
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After many years of either pretending not to be home or actually not being home we participated this time around. There’s been some recent flux in our nabe in that older folks moved away and sold their houses, and young families have moved in. Some really awesome & inventive costumes, and the kids were absolutely adorable. Fun 
PS: We have about half of the candy we bought left, but there’s always next year 
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Those kinds of developments near here usually get trick or treaters, as far as I know.
I was surprised to see tons of little kids in costume at the mall this evening.
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This kind of reminds of a friend I had from many years ago. He was hurt on the job and rushed to the hospital. Some nurse or administrator was asking him questions. One of them was “next of kin” or “who to contact” – his answer was his wife and he gave the nurse her name, which was a different last name than his. His wife had kept her maiden name when they married.
The nurse seemed confused about the last name conflict and asked “Why she didn’t take his last name??” He answered “I’m in way too much pain to have that fight, again”
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Getting ready for the masses of goblins and ghouls - we’ve had as many as 475 in the past, but it’s tapered a bit in recent years, due to Trunk or Treating at the schools & as well, a downtown trick or treat. We’ve bought 3 Costco sized bags of candy, and will pass it out in the driveway, with a fire in the solo fire pit & a few chairs pulled around. DD1 is here to enjoy it. Chili and cornbread for dinner.
A pic of DD2’s friend’s sister’s cat, who likes to cozy up on a friendly lap! Lol. Happy Halloween!
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We always over-buy, but this year I only saw 10 groups. We’ve been here in our subdivision for about 22 years and it’s interesting the waves of family ages that come and go. When we moved in the entire subdivision (which is about 360 homes) were mostly young families (it was a new subdivision then). We’d get over 100 groups hitting us for Hallowe’en.
Now all our kids are 19+ years, and most of those who’ve remained at this end of the subdivision are similarly situated. The only recent new neighbors (last year) have 13 and 16 year olds, engineers in training as their Dad says (both he and his wife, immigrants from Egypt, are electrical engineers) and two years ago the nice Russian couple moved in 3 houses down to escape NYC, and have a 4 year old. But there are pockets elsewhere in the neighborhood here and there where younger families have moved in as empty nesters have moved out. Just not down on our end, except as mentioned above.
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I miss the trick or treaters . In Santa Cruz I would get up to a hundred kids. I would have tons of candy .
I loved opening up the front door and seeing their eager faces and shouting trick or treat .
With large groups , I would have them get into a single file line . They would love to tell me their costume after I had asked . They would get a handful of Twix ,Hersheys , Snickers ,Milky ways.
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Trick or Treating has not recovered from the pandemic in this neighbothood. Just the 4 grandies to visit. Costco brand nut bar and a rolled rice cracker goodie for each. The other g’parents do the big sugar laden thing.
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Ug. Bad stuff for him and for his family. I hope they get a good settlement (no idea how wrongful death law works in SKOR).
Was it programmed to distinguish between them? (Boxes and human pieces?)
What I mean is, we can’t blame the robot if this was something the programmers of said robot should have foreseen…
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Thanks for posting that. As a keen music lover (not a musician, though) and an electrical engineer, I found that interesting.
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Today .Giving thanks to my father. Who was a first infantry marine in the Guadalcanal campaign . Thank you for your service. And just learned a fox is living underneath my cabin on the front of the property. Im thinking of a name .
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Rupert? (In honor of William Rupertus, commander of the first marines). Or you can always name him after your dad?
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