Happy Halloween

This is a pumpkin that George and I carved two years ago. We actually won the village pumpkin carving contest that year with this one!

Because we live way out in the country, we don't ever get that many children visiting on Halloween. Sometimes my friends will come out, dragging their children with them. I'll always make it worth while and load the country-stranded children down with way too much candy. The first year we lived here, I bought bags and bags of candy to pass out. I was certain that we'd get trick-or-treaters. Nobody showed up. As all my two older boys still lived at home, it was easy enough to divide the fun sized candy bars between them. George was just a baby so he didn't get any. Well, maybe one or two.

Now years later, we still don't get any children coming to the door and we are down to one kid still living at home. So, I buy smaller bags of my favourite, mini Bounty bars. I can nibble on those for days and days. If I keep them on a bottom shelf, in the back behind all the cans of beans and the seldom used kitchen appliances, I find that I won't eat them all at once. I'm not hiding them, really! Incidentally, out here in the UK, most of the costumes are horror costumes. You must be a ghost, zombie, witch etc . . . I initially followed US tradition of dress up as anything. It didn't take me long to figure out that most folks thought I was a bit odd. "What is scary about Bo Peep?"

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Happy birthday to my brother-in-law! Jay, I don't know how you can continue to have birthdays like the rest of us mere mortals and still maintain your boyish good looks.