On 16 Oct 2005 13:05:30 -0700, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>When I lived on Lung Guyland I had that problem but the kids here in
>the boonies are for the most part much more civilized regarding
>Halloween (don't really know about other instances). Here only the
>very young kids go out begging, always with their parents... the older
>kids (young teens) don't seem at all interested. Anyways, my front
>door is a good 200 feet in from the road, don't think anyone is going
>to bother creeping all that way to smash a couple pumpkins. I don't
>get too many rug rats and they don't come around much past dinner time,
>so that's when I put my pumpkins out back by the trees where my cats
>can see them from a window, they spend many hours over many days
>intently observing the squirrels squirreling.

I loved the picture of your pumpkin-eating squirrels. I've never seen
that happen before.

Carol