Comments on: Yes we carve!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:06:45 +0000

I found this:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081101/POLITICS01/811010422/&imw=Y

By: Suzi

Suzi — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:14:34 +0000

when I was growing up in FW, Devil’s Hollow was the scary road where the claw-hand guy was supposed to getcha. Seems like a good time for some old-fashioned Hoosier poetry –

The Little Orphan Annie by James Whitcomb Riley

Little Orphan Annie’s come to my house to stay.
To wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away.
To shoo the chickens from the porch and dust the hearth and sweep,
and make the fire and bake the bread to earn her board and keep.
While all us other children, when the supper things is done,
we sit around the kitchen fire and has the mostest fun,
a listening to the witch tales that Annie tells about
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!

Once there was a little boy who wouldn’t say his prayers,
and when he went to bed at night away up stairs,
his mammy heard him holler and his daddy heard him bawl,
and when they turned the covers down,
he wasn’t there at all!
They searched him in the attic room
and cubby hole and press
and even up the chimney flu and every wheres, I guess,
but all they ever found of him was just his pants and round-abouts
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!

Once there was a little girl who always laughed and grinned
and made fun of everyone, of all her blood and kin,
and once when there was company and old folks was there,
she mocked them and she shocked them and said, she didn’t care.
And just as she turned on her heels and to go and run and hide,
there was two great big black things a standing by her side.
They snatched her through the ceiling fore she knew what shes about,
and the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!

When the night is dark and scary,
and the moon is full and creatures are a flying and the wind goes Whoooooooooo,
you better mind your parents and your teachers fond and dear,
and cherish them that loves ya, and dry the orphans tears
and help the poor and needy ones that cluster all about,
or the goblins will get ya if ya don’t watch out!!!

By: nancy

nancy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:50:13 +0000

How about that woman in GP Farms that refused candy to kids whose parents are voting for Obama?

Did I miss a news bulletin?

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:42:37 +0000

We live at the last street in the neighborhood on a cul-de-sac with houses only on one side of the street in Orange, CA. Every year, my wife buys lots of candy and every year no one shows up. I wouldn’t come here if I were trick/treating.

Last night, I waited for a while and finally one small girl showed up. About a half-hour later a group of about 7 kids came by and that was it. I turned off the light and two more older girls came to the house. Today, I found one piece of candy on the lawn.

How about that woman in GP Farms that refused candy to kids whose parents are voting for Obama? She could end up with more left over candy than we did. Next year, I’m giving out healthy things like those individually wrapped prunes. Sorry, DRIED PLUMS.

By: MichaelG

MichaelG — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:35:00 +0000

Here in the Sacramento ‘hood it has been cool (mid 60′s) and rainy for the last two days. It did stop last evening for a dry T or T time. I had exactly one child stop here. He was a little black kid about 6 or so sans costume. Pop was out on the sidewalk. He politely thanked me for the candy and then told me that I had a nice house. My guess is that all the local kids went to up scale neighborhoods. You know, like all the kids who migrated to Nancy’s place? The area they vacated? That’s where I live. I’ll just bring all the left over candy to work.

By: nancy

nancy — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:34:39 +0000

I ran out of candy at 7:20 p.m. Like Jeff, I sat outside in a lawn chair with a glass of wine and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins on the iPod speakers. I noticed fewer overgrown teenagers glomming candy. Lots of tourists, but every one was in a costume and all were polite. One story: At one point I went in to restock. A kid was approaching with his mother, and I called out, “Take your pick, one to a customer. I’m going in to get some more.” I was inside for a minute or two, and when I came out the kid was still standing there; his mother wouldn’t let him go to the next house until he had told me thank-you.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:08:22 +0000

alex…it appears you have proper lineage credentials to be a future ghost. Thanks for the information…I had not heard of James Vandolah.
Now I am off to the car wash to scrub the blood off my car door, then I have to do something about the scratches that damn one-armed man made in the cemetery last night when he hooked his hand into my door frame and I drove off with it. Anybody need a hook-hand…free to a needy recipient?

By: Jeff Borden

Jeff Borden — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:28:33 +0000

We drew 165 trick-or-treaters last night in our North Side of Chicago neighborhood. This was an all-time record, but in fairness, it was one of the loveliest Halloween’s ever for weather. My wife and I sat on the front steps –drinking, of course– for most of the night as the temperatures were in the mid-60s. Various and sundry neighbors stopped by before or after making the rounds with their munchkins, so the result was:

* all candy gone
* nine of 12 beers (12 oz. variety)
* both bottles of Coney Island Freaktoberest ale (24 oz.)
* significant but unrecordable quantity of frozen vodka

We noticed a deep drop in oversized, overaged kids, too. Maybe a dozen total who were way too big to be out copping candy but all the kids were polite. My favorite costume twosome: a young couple had their black lab dressed as Superman and their little girl as Supergirl. Cute beyond words.

Remember to “fall back” from daylight savings time tonight.

By: basset

basset — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:24:52 +0000

476… was that in Fort Wayne?

here in suburban Nashville we got one… before we set a bowl of candy on the porch and left about quarter to seven.

friend who lives in the yuppie, renovated-old-house part of town says churches from poor neighborhoods run buses full of costumed kids to her street…

By: John c

John c — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:46:08 +0000

“Every year we get over 400 trick or treaters . . . does anyone out in Nancy Nall land get more?”
I’ve always been curious how many trick or treaters we get, as we, like Nancy, are in High Trick or Treat Toursim country. This year I got a brainstorm. And just before the first ring of the doorbell I rifled through my Little League coaching bag and pulled out the trusty pitch-counter.
The verdict: 476!

And the person doing the clicking (I was out with the kids) said: “If anything, that’s a little low.”