It’s Halloween today and even though we missed our towns Trick or Treating night (Sunday night), we were still able to have two of our favorite Trick or Treaters stop in tonight. They were my niece and nephew. One of the things that our local towns do, is that all the kids that go to our public & Catholic school pick a night that they will have the kids go out Trick or Treating in their towns. And even though my niece and nephew were able to go out in their town and a stop at a few other places Sunday night, they still went out tonight to some of the homes that they didn’t hit earlier. I was happy that they came over, not only to get a chance to see their costumes, but also to give them their bags of candy.
We were also able to Skype with Kyle this week and he was asking if I could find a certain picture of him dressed up for Halloween when he was a kid. Of course, I could find all the other years that he was dressed up, but do you think I could find him dressed up as an ear of corn? No. But just looking at the pictures sure brought me down memory lane and it was fun to have an excuse to dig them out and look at them again. When we were talking with Kyle, we asked him if he was going to go out Trick or Treating in New York? He said absolutely not on the streets. He said that on Halloween in the city, it’s the night that gangs initiate new members into their groups. OK, that doesn’t sound too cool does it? It’s almost terrifying to be honest. It’s funny how different small communities do things. I’m thinking when the kids were little we would spend the whole night driving around to the neighbors. Now farm kids really make a haul. There isn’t too many kids in the neighborhoods anymore, so everyone pretty much expects and knows who will be stopping by. And none of this one or two pieces of candy stuff either. With only around 10 kids stopping in, they might get a bag full of goodies that won’t even fit in whatever they have to carry the candy. But I think the adults might like it even more than the kids sometimes. I also remember when the kids got a little older, they begged if I would drop them off in town and they could hang out with the town kids. I’m sure it was a cool thing to do, but it sure made a long night by the time we went to all our farm neighbors after it. Because they were counting on us to stop in. But now it’s late and Halloween is over for another year. I guess it’s time to get ready for Thanksgiving and St. Nicholas day!