On 10/24/2020 9:34 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.Â* 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.Â* My wife found a
> way for me to avoid being tempted by the leftovers. She got Smarties.Â* I
> am not likely to eat those. If they had been Skors bars I would probably
> eat them all before Halloween.

My wife brought home a bag of fun-size (left) Twix last time she
grocery shopped ... I wasn't even thinking about Halloween when I opened
it and ate a couple ... We've never had T or T'ers down here in The
Holler , I thought she got 'em for me !
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