Hallowe'en 2022

You're a very generous halloweener! I always liked getting glow sticks when I was a kid that's really cool.

I just moved to a new apartment complex this year so I'm not sure if anyone will come to my door, but I'll keep some candies around just in case.

Whoa! I thought the houses that give out full size candy bars were cool. You are on another level!

I love my kids
I love my grandkids
I like non-related kids, but not when they are little 'monsters' (not meaning costumes) or hang around for a long time.
Kids at Hallowe'en are generally happy, and are here then gone quickly.

This is just an example of why I 'over treat' kids at Hallowe'en....

Took the grandkids to a baseball game. We're sitting in our seats, eating, most of the time. Back row, just below the concourse (makes it easier to get more food!). Grandkids stayed with us pretty much through the first 4 innings. Then they both went down to the rail just beyond the end of the home-team dugout. Not many people at this end of the park due to sunlight RIGHT IN your eyes during most of the game (I didn't pick the seats, little brother did, but then he had to cancel, so we used his tickets for the kids). So, not many people there, but there was a group of 16-22 YO kids that came over and down to try to get balls from the players. They were getting balls, and this is what made the grandkids go down and stand at the bottom of the aisle of our section. Grandson is 12, granddaughter is 9 1/2.

This little boy (5 or 6 YO), at the right-end of the next section to the right had gotten a ball from the players early in the game. When my granddaughter got to the bottom of the aisle, he quit watching the players and just watched my granddaughter. After a bit, as the grandkids were standing there, he came over and gave the ball he got to my granddaughter. I didn't see his parents say anything to him, he just got up and brought her the ball, then went and sat back down. As the warmups ended, a player tossed a ball to my grandson. He then went over to that little boy and gave him the ball he just got, then my grandkids came back up to sit with us.

funniest kid we've ever had show up was a shy little kid (we were not in costumes) and we had a bench out there with a 'turkey fryer' pot full of chocolates and another big pot almost as big with the sugar candies. He was very shy, so we told him to help himself. He walked up and looked in one pot, then looked in the other pot, and back and forth a couple time, then he finally settled on the chocolates and he reached in and grabbed ONE piece out of it and put it in his bucket and started to turn away. I told him to take a handful.... then this hand that would have dwarfed bigfoot's hand shot out of his sleeve and grabbed the biggest handful! Funniest damn thing I've seen!

We have wanted to do full-size bars for a few years but haven't committed. We only had 2 trick or treaters last year so it is hard to justify buying a bunch of candy.

We are the last house on a dead-end road

we have 'other outlets' for left-overs. Grandkids usually get a bunch, and the wifey works at a day care at a school so the stuff doesn't get thrown out.

Yeah, I am a fat kid and there are no children in my neighborhood. So I dress up like Eric Cartman and eat all the candy myself.

I am going with my friend who has a son. We're dressing up & walking him around on Saturday. Will definitely be taking my cut of the tootsie-rolls and starbursts

Alton Brown made 'tootsie-rolls' on one of his shows....

had 45 little goblins and ghouls last night. Fortunately my daughter decided to come out and 'help' since she didn't have the kids last night, I told her to bring 'something', so she brought all the little bags of goodies she made up for my granddaughter to take to school and forgot to take, otherwise we would have had to close shop early.