Trick or Treat

We don't have trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood. The houses are pretty far apart and the terrain is very hilly. In fact, we have no children living on our street.

Our neighbors have three young grandsons who visited on Halloween. So the neighbor called several of us to give us a "heads up" that the boys would be out trick-or-treating. They would come to our house last, since we are across the street.

I remembered our trick-or-treat days in which we covered a lot of territory and got a lot of candy. I realized these children would go only to six or seven houses and wouldn't have a lot of loot. So I purchased three large bags of assorted candy. Imagine the surprised looks on their faces when we dumped an entire bag of candy into each treat bag! It was priceless.

Ellie and Lucy were fascinated by the colorful costumes. They were very good girls and remained at a "sit/stay" while we distributed the treats. You will notice that Lucy (on the right) seems very interested in something around the door. She was looking at my husband who was getting the candy from the dining room table.

I love seeing children in their Halloween costumes, and I thought I would really miss trick-or-treaters. But you know what? I really didn't. There were no kids taller than I, no mothers with infants carrying treat bags for "the baby," and no more hungry looking children whom I wanted to bring inside and feed. No more parents standing in the yard grabbing a smoke, and no more carloads of children from other areas of the city. I'll be content to treat my neighbor's grandsons and call it a night.