We don’t do much for Halloween any more, having found that, because the sidewalk ends just before our house, few Trick-or-Treaters continue on to our door. Additionally, when the weather is bad, there is a chance of the driveway icing up and making it dangerous for young people to stop by.
It was different when we still had children in the house. Then there was no escaping Halloween observances. There was the time that our teens hid themselves in piles of leaves on the front lawn, waiting for trick-or-treaters to show up and then leaping up as the youngsters walked by.
My sister, Kathi, reminded me how different Halloweens were when we were growing up, two miles south of town, when we depended upon our parents to drive us around to fill our buckets with Halloween candy.
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