Halloween years past

Years past Halloween has been fun for so many reasons...when I was a teenager going trick or treating was so much fun...we would bring our sheets and knell down, ring the door bell and say "boooo tick or treat" we would get the "oh how cute" then the doling of candy and promptly stand up and say in our deep grown up voices 'Trick or Treat" ha ha and fun off...we did this for many years.. well as long as we could get away with it...then we graduated to taking our martini glasses around to our friends and well you get the picture on that one...then kids came along and it was fun to dress them up and take them out...and even more fun to glean our favorites from their bounty after they went to bed...that was in the days when you got chocolate you really thought you had scored! One of my most vivid times was when it was pouring rain...the 2 older girls were 6th and 7th grades and after two houses in the rain decided their hair was getting too messed up and headed home leaving Pattianne and I to enjoy the night...we were freezing as the rain turned to wet snow but the pay out was tremendous...since most of the tricker treaters were taking cover most houses were so glad to get rid of their candy...we almost filled a whole pillow case full...it was glorious. Persistence pays off!

As the grand kids came along it become a time where they would go to gramie's house to take advantage of my neighborhood. We would always have the customary pictures, some food and go out to have fun in the neighborhood. For years I had some bats eye's that lit up and pumpkins that lit up in our front windows...they always knew that it was Halloween when those decorations got put up...I miss those special times!
So happy halloween to all the grand kids that share these memories!

Halloween is a time to have fun even if it is only for a few hours. It is part of the fall which transitions to Thanksgiving and then Christmas...one of those package deals...