Halloween in the boonies.

[judecorp]

I wanted to take Punk down to one of the other towns in the area (Longmeadow) because I'd heard that there's a street that goes Halloween Crazy and I wanted to check it out. But I had also bought a bunch of candy and really wanted to hand out candy. Oh, the dilemma!

In the end, I left a big bowl of candy on our front steps next to our jack-o'-bamas with a sign that said, "Happy Halloween! Please help yourselves!" and left our front light on.

We came back at 8pm and the pumpkins were untouched and most of the candy was gone.

And this is why I love living in the boonies. :)

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[amyura.livejournal.com]

We tried that last year, because we take the kids to my mom's neighborhood and Brian got home after we had to go last year. When he got home, he heard two kids giggling and running away, and all the candy was gone. The pumpkins were totally okay, at least.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

We don't have trick-or-treaters in our complex so Laurel went with her best friend's family to the neighborhood around our elementary school. A few years ago we went trick or treating in a different neighborhood and ran into a few houses with cute "we're out trick or treating, please have some candy from the bowl" signs.

My parents live in one of the prime neighborhoods in their town for trick-or-treating and found the trick to saving their pumpkins is to bring them in around 9 PM. Before 8 in their neighborhood is mostly younger kids and well-supervised groups. (They haven't had problems with pumpkins in several years after Mom worked at the high school and the kids knew she knew them, but when I was in middle school we had a couple incidents where our pumpkins got kicked in on our doorstep.)

[rizzo41.livejournal.com]

Obamalanterns wouldn't have lasted two seconds on my front doorstep. I think Sarah Palin lives around here somewhere.

[eight.livejournal.com]

I was there in Longmeadow tonight too! It totally recaptured the Halloween joy for me. : )

[skatured.livejournal.com]

Are you really in the boonies? I thought you sort of lived in a suburb.

[aminahfiddler.livejournal.com]

We had so much fun last night. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.

Our neighbor has an 18mo. He was so excited he kept running up to the groups and saying hello. Then after his dad gave out the candy he'd try to leave with the group. His wife was out for the evening so it was dad's night. I think all of the neighbors got up and ran after him at one point. It was safe so it was fun.

We also had one neighbor that wanted to go out with her grandson so instead of staying home, she walked around with a bowl of candy and handed it out as she walked around.

We gave out playdough and candy. The kids were more excited about the playdough. I think next year we're not going to get candy at all. We also don't have a lot of older kids so we were done by 8:30. We kept the lights on for a bit after that but nobody rang the bell.