Tick or Treat!

No, that’s not a typo. On Halloween evening, Jeff manned the fort at home while Grama Leslie and I took Jay and Rose trick or treating in our neighborhood. We went to a dozen houses or less. Jay had a blast chorusing “TICK OR TREAT!” Sometimes it came out as trick, but I liked it better as tick. Way creepier! Rose quietly held her bucket on her arm like a purse and said “day doo” (thank you) at about every other house, with her trademark grin.

Meanwhile, back at our home, Jeff did some serious age-profiling on trick or treaters. If they looked older than 12, he asked them how old they were, only gave one tiny candy to middle schoolers, and refused candy outright to the high schoolers and audacious adults. Miraculously, we did not get TP-ed or egged later. They probably saw the junky ghost milk jugs on our porch and thought the place was trashed enough.

I managed to put the costumes over their fleece jackets so they stayed toasty warm.

Getting all ready.

Luke and Leia: back in action

 

Examining the loot. I examined it too and extracted the 3 Almond Joys and a Reese’s. Tasty. We let Jay and Rose eat 2 pieces of candy each. Then we let them stay up a little later than usual to work off the sugar rush.

We had a GIANT bowl of candy to hand out, and it was all gone by 7:20pm. So we hung up an OUT OF CANDY, BOO HOO sign and went to the basement to watch It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! like we do every Halloween.

Ok, I didn’t dress up this year but this could count as my costume—all I need is red lipstick and high heels. Can you guess who I am? LUCY! One of my favorite episodes is the one where Lucy and Ethel make bread (I think it’s called Pioneer Women). It is absolutely hilarious! Highly recommended if you need a good hearty laugh.

And we all know what Jeff was this year—the 9 fingered man! Actually he wore a paper moustache and goatee to school on Halloween for fun. I’m so glad he didn’t try to grow any facial hair this year.

And because I still get a kick out of these goofy self-taken group pictures, (and because we took these on Halloween)…

We’re ready for some November!