Happy Halloween!

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Due to time constraints this year, I  kinda phoned it in went more minimalist with my pumpkin carving. As always, I do it Old School…just me, some pumpkins, a sharp knife and an improvisational technique. Our neighborhood is a trick-or-treat Destination and we usually get somewhere between 350-400 spooky little (and some big) visitors. Should the rain in the forecast (happy dance!!!) hold off until later in the evening, I expect that with it being a Friday night, our trick-or-treater count could well top 400.

Between projects at work and getting ready for Halloween, I feel as though I’ve been going non-stop since we returned from our trip. I’m looking forward to a quiet weekend and getting caught up with myself. Hopefully the Universe will cooperate. 😉

Happy Halloween and bon weekend!  Do you get a lot of trick-or-treaters where you live?

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  1. Yes, we get trick or treaters in our neighborhood. We will probably have around 200. No Jack O’ Lanterns at our house, but I do have three pumpkins on the porch and a witch on the door.

  2. Live in a high-rise does require giving up a few delights – instead of Trick or Treating, our building has a party for all of the children. Adults who aren’t parents of the kids get to lurk in the building lobby to see all of the kids in their costumes!

  3. Well, we are in a rural farming community so I get no trick or treaters, but here is the funny part: I really AM afraid of my 100 + year old house!! Weird things do happen and I dont ever put up scary things or decorate cause it would really freak me out. I usually leave and go to another party. Let my ghosts have it to themselves. Yikes!!

    1. Susan, we have a farm and our guest house (a 19th century log house) was photographed for a magazine last fall. The progressional photographer showed me on a computer a series of photos taken with a camera on a tripod. The photos were taken automatically in rapid succession to capture the best light. She pointed out to me that there was a ghost in one of the photos. I saw it. Somewhat scary. And no, I don’t spend the night over there by myself.

        1. I meant to type Susie in my reply. Yes, it does freak me out a bit. I’ll send you photos of the log house–the ghost was spotted in the first photo you will see–up in the right upper corner of the room, close to the ceiling.

  4. If last years experience (this is only our second year in this house) is an indicator, we’ll be lucky if we see 10 kids. Probably thats an overly optimistic number as the predicted temperature for this evening will be in the 30’s. I have one bag of candy, just in case. There are lots of daytime Halloween events for kids, and even trick or treat at the Mall of America, and most kids seem to go to these instead. I miss it. My daughter whi lives in California used to live in one of those destination neighborhoods, and it was a lot of fun.

  5. No trick or treaters here. We live in a condo with many part-time residents and no way to “leave a light on” to let kids know to stop here.

  6. Have fun tonight, and I hope you bought the kind of treats *you* like the most, in case of leftovers : > We’ll be at the Greenwich Village parade tonight – a mile of craziness! xo

  7. You do such a great job with those jack-o-lanterns! On our little island, we rarely get more than 20 trick-or-treaters. Of course, I’m always worried we might run out, so buy enough for 30 or 40, and then am tempted by mini chocolate bars for days. . . Happy Halloween! hope you get a chance to slow down this weekend — we have that extra hour for the time change, Hoorah!

  8. Love your pumpkins! To be honest I carve some but mostly it’s for ourselves. We don’t get many kiddies coming for treats and the reason is twofold — at this time of year it’s already quite cold here (most years we have a dusting of snow by now and kids wear parkas over their costumes), plus parents have taken to having little parties and forbid their kids from going door-to-door due to razor blades in the candy and other incidents. So different from the Halloween of my youth.

    Susie — your house sounds like the perfect setting for hosting a Halloween party!

  9. Cute pumpkins! Yes the spider on my blog was really large…she has disappeared now and I so hope I don’t meet up with her in my house! I have been going non stop and that is why I did practically nothing for Halloween ….except buy candy!

  10. Your pumpkins are great! I am at the stage where I buy a few and set them out on the stoop but don’t carve them. This year I added some of the “spider web” fabric on the porch.
    We get only about 20 trick-or-treaters. Since we get so few, we now buy regular-sized candy bars (I watch out for the pre-Halloween sales), because we love how excited the kids are when they see them. Like materfamilias, we always buy too many, mostly because my husband always worries that we have not bought enough. I eat some of the leftovers and bring the rest to church, where they are donated to a food pantry.

  11. People must drive their kids into your area. We had that happen in the last house we lived in. Now we live in a 55+ community, but, some of our friends come by for a glass of wine. lol

    1. Paula, yes I think that’s part of it. Our neighborhood is level, well-lit and laid out in a grid so the kids can cover a lot of houses pretty quickly. A lot of the neighbors really go all out decorating, so that’s also a draw I’m sure.

  12. Our neighborhood is also a destination for trick or treaters–we are a family oriented neighborhood that is generous with children who come to trick or treat–no matter if they live in our neighborhood or not.

  13. Love your jacks! We just finished carving ours and it’s pretty funny. We live on the Common of a small NE village and we get about 300 little monsters, depending on weather. It’s always fun in a slightly nerve wracking way. But dinner is a problem!

  14. We’re on a hill so I think they avoid my street, but I seriously love getting the dozen or so that we do.

    My ‘big kids’ (6’+) got so much grief over people acting like college kids were knocking at their door, it kind of ruined trick or treating for them!

  15. As a child growing up in Australia in the 70’s, I wondered about the fuss of Halloween. Now, as it’s becoming more and more popular, I see how excited the kids are as they trick or treat in my street. Last year it may have only been 10 kids…this year 50+.
    It still seems a bit strange though. There’s something not quite right with all these ghoulish visitors knocking on my door in broad daylight with 30 degree C temperatures! I suppose that’s a consequence of northern hemisphere traditions in the Southern Hemisphere

  16. I never get any trick or treaters, but I always buy a bag of “fun” sized candy bars, just in case some intrepid kid makes the journey to the far corner of the driveway, figures out how to open the gate, and climbs the stairs to knock on the door. The leftover candy gets taken to the lunch/break room at work, and is usually gone within minutes.

  17. Traditionally, we do not have Halloween in Germany although it is getting more and more popular.
    I live in the South, which is a catholic region and the date coincides with our 1st Nov All Saints Day and that makes people here even more hesitant to accept this “new thing”. I am sure you understand what I mean and I certainly do accept other nations’ traditions! I work in an international environment and learn and experience a lot of other cultural or national days which is very interesting and fascinating.

    Your traditional pumpkins are really nice – or scary 😉

    Annette | Lady of Style

    1. Lady of Style, That is interesting. I don’t know if many realize that part of the point of Halloween (All Hallow’s Eve) is that it is night before All Saints Day. Historically, Christians had no issue with that. Halloween has a fascinating history which you can find online.

      1. Halloween is very much related to All Saints’ Day and All Souls Day (the Day of the Dead) and all three blend in together in many places, as well as Remembrance or Armistice day on the 11th.

        Like many things, it is becoming overkill now.