On 2020-10-24 9:33 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 10/24/2020 5:36 PM, jmcquown wrote:

>> I'll be hunkered down but also doing the candy thing (see below).Â* On
>> October 1st I hung out the Black Cat in the Moon Flag and strung
>> blinky eyeball lights in the recently trimmed shrubs out front.Â* I
>> turn those on at dusk and off at bedtime.
>>
>> If it doesn't rain on Halloween I plan to set a bowl with a bunch of
>> candy on top of a tallish box at the end of the driveway.Â* I've drawn
>> a Jack-O-Lantern on the box. Â* I bought a huge bag of mixed
>> chocolate candy.Â* Oh, I've also got a bunch of small snack size
>> packages of Corn Nuts to put in the bowl.Â* I have enough stuff to
>> refill the bowl three or four times if folks don't get greedy.
>> Lots of people on my street walk their dogs several times a day.
>> There will be a sign saying "People Treats" (I don't want their dogs
>> getting into the chocolates). I do hope it doesn't rain!
>>
>> Jill
>
> Last year we had three kids come by. This year I bought the full size
> Hershey bars.Â* For just a few kids I can splurge.


Same here. We had no kids at all for more than twenty year. Two years
ago the neighbours' kids came by, and last year we had only the sons of
the owner of the nursery behind us and his four kids.

Our big problem is what to get, something with milk chocolate that kids
like or something with dark chocolate, which I like. My wife found a
way for me to avoid being tempted by the leftovers. She got Smarties. I
am not likely to eat those. If they had been Skors bars I would probably
eat them all before Halloween.