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I've got about an hour left of Halloween.  Karly decided she was too old to trick-or-treat but she rode with us.  Seth decided to go as a cat.  Karly and Cheri stayed in the car the whole time while Seth and I walked around the various trunk-or-treat locations.  We didn't hit every place but I did more than my usual share of walking.  Weather was a little chilly but not too bad.

After the Trunk-or-treating, we took the kids to visit their grandmother in a nearby nursing home.  With only 5 people at the front passing out treats, the kids got more there than they did anywhere else.  I'm sure Seth had a good time, and I know I did.  I passed out more smiles than anybody passed out candy.  I genuinely appreciated the work everyone went to, decorating their cars, providing the candy, dressing up in costume and braving the chilly weather which, depending on the costume, was more chilly for some than for others.

Tomorrow the few decorations I put out come down.  I'll put up my Halloween coffee mugs and get out the Santa Claus mugs.  My only Thanksgiving decoration is this enormous pumpkin.  No Christmas decorations till December.

Should be much cooler tomorrow.  46 and 30.  I have to play the last Halloween party of the season tomorrow night, about 45 minutes away.  I'm always a little sad when Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas are over.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's a little bit nostalgia for when I was a kid, but these days I think it's more because I get to do so much for the kids, and I just love doing that, especially working as hard as Santa Claus to get Christmas ready.  Wrapping all the presents gets a little tedious, but I've become rather an expert at it.  John

I am surprised Karly opted out of the trick or treating. I thought candy bypassed age every time. ;)

I have heard of trunk or treat, but never saw one. You go from car to car and say "trunk or treat"?

I think we can use Halloween to teach children to barter. Imagine you give your kids some candy when they start and then you send them out Trick or Trading. The good ones come back with Hershey bars, Mounds, KitKats. The bad ones have a bag full of candy corn at the end. (laugh) But we get a generation of adults who know the art of the deal!

Halloween day my little tree in the yard was full of leaves. Sunday, bare. Instant autumn.

 

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Usually in parking lots or open fields. the cars form a perimeter around the outside, decorate their trunks, and while the kids don't usually say "trick-or-treat" anymore, they always say "Thank you", and often offer a "Happy Halloween".  A couple of people insisted that I take some candy too, which of course, I gave to the kids when we got back.

A few neighborhoods go all out.  One of them has roasted hot dogs and feature 4, 30 foot tall skeletons and assorted decorations, but parking in these neighborhoods is at a premium.  Downtown also has store-to-store treating in the afternoons but again, there's that parking problem.

I was a little surprised that Karly opted out of trick-or-treating" too.  She might still be young enough for next year, but that would be about it.  She's at a difficult age.  So am I.  John

David, trunk-or-treat is really big here in Chicago. My nephew, who is a pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church on the north west side of Chicago had a trunk-or-treat in the church parking lot. Here he is with his family and their trunk-or-treat car. Peggy

 

Peggy, Laila and Angel Minchie

 

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Peggy, Laila and Angel Minchie

 

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Cool. I assume if it is a car you just leave the trunk open and stand there while kids in costumes run around. How long ago did that start?

 

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