Trick or Treat

In the nick of time, we managed to get the pumpkins carved. There is nothing like procrastination to place a little pressure on your pumpkin carving efforts, especially when all of the stores are sold out of their pumpkin carving knives.

NOT a safety knife

Eviscerating pumpkins is not for cowards

With exactly 50 minutes until trick-or-treating time, Daddy was our hero and arrived home with the very last kit in any of the local stores. We carved our pumpkins, lit the candles, then hustled off for the beginning of trick-or-treating hours.


When we lived in California, we had never heard of official "hours" for trick-or-treating. I am pretty sure this is peculiar to the Midwest/Northeast, but I am quite fond of the idea. Our hours were from 5:30pm-8:00pm, and we went on the earlier side of the allotted time. Having specific hours for trick-or-treating allows the police to keep order, knowing that any teenagers out making mischief after a certain time are not trick-or-treating, but simply causing mayhem. It also lets everyone on the home front have a break- in California, people would still be knocking on the door at 10:00pm in search of candy.

The boys were Spiderman and Obi Wan Kenobi for Halloween. I managed to get a good picture of them in their costumes- the only time they could be seen for the rest of the evening.

Trick-or-treating in Western New York generally involves heavy jackets, and sometimes snow boots. We had some sleet, rain, and even some wet snow pellets while we were gathering treats from the neighbors. Fortunately, we finished gathering candy just in time. The deluge of sleety-rain started as we knocked on the door of the very last house.


I have to say, I am glad Halloween 2010 has come to an end. It was fun, it was sugary, and it was hyper. I am looking forward to a nice, sedate Thanksgiving filled with lots and lots of tryptophan!