Boo-Ho-Ho!

This entry is a little out of order. Halloween was two weeks ago, of course, and we had a good one.

We've been decorating the house a little bit more each year. Nothing too major, but we enjoy hanging fake cobwebs from the front porch and putting scary stickers on the windows. Last year we made ghost heads using Styrofoam wig stands with cheesecloth draped over them. This year we updated them with shoulders, which looks better. We also made a big cutout zombie and taped him to an upstairs window to make a scary shadow. Little by little, we're scaring away the local kids.

It's not working. This year we counted 130 kids, which is more than last year. In fact, we ran out of candy. With about an hour to go, I had to dash to the gas station mini-mart to get more. Not the most economical way to stock up on candy, I can tell you. I got a bunch of jellybeans and gummi bears and whatnot, and Kathy put then into little Dixie cups and wrapped them in cellophane. It all worked out okay, but for the first time ever we had no leftover candy for ourselves. :-(

This year we put red and green bulbs in some of the outdoor lights (Kathy's idea), and it looked pretty good. Er, I mean, bad. Some of the local downtown businesses were passing out candy, too. One of the shopkeepers later told us that a lot of the kids that visited her said, "Have you seen that white house at the end of the block? It's really scary!" So I guess our little scheme is working. Bwaaa-haa-haa!!!