Day After Reformation

This was the year of the Monster Storm, really just a big, fast cold front on Hallowe'en that brought 70-mph winds and an inch or so of rain and caused many of Indiana's towns to move their official trick-or-treating to the next night, November 1st.

We stayed in that night and enjoyed the warmth.

Wouldn't you want to trick-or-treat in a house that looks like this? I would! But although we had two big bowls full of candy, had swept the piles of wet and yellow maple leaves off the porch, and made sure the lights on that porch worked...not a single trick-or-treater. No little kids, happy and tousled and a little scared of our house (which had been empty for several years), shouting for treats and letting in the cold wind.

Son#2 went where every other kid in town did: to the neighborhood that has people driving into it not only from our town but also from Muncie. I didn't see any flapping witch robes anywhere else!

Next year I'm advertising.

    pumpkin carved by Stephan Koch