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KB and I quickly carved a couple of pumpkins, made some more spider webs with twine on the front porch, put out some of the red lights from Chinese new year and moved the lanterns and their hooks to the front yard.

House actually looked pretty good for as fast as we threw it together.

Initially, we didn't have costumes but KB put on those big ears and a cowboy hat. I was rolling. I put on a red hat and made a clown out of myself. (really hard to do)

Our schtick for the night was we would present a desert tray with a few of each candy (Butter fingers, Reeses, Take Fives, toes, eyeballs, regular fingers and lips.) KB held the tray and I ran through the selection. Made the kids wait, and choose carefully.

At one point we brought a tomato into the fray. AMAZINGLY, kids wanted it. Two actually took 'em. One 7 year old kid said "oooh, tomatoes are a healthy, tasty treat" (yes, we asked the parents who were curbside if the kids could take them)

One little girl, just walked away, shaking her head, saying “To-Mato”. She must have thought we were ridiculous. I think she’ll remember us.

Later, an attractive mom and her kids stopped by with a puppy in tow. We did the candy hand out and then the mom says to me “Do you want to PET IT” (really annunciating the T’s.)

That was a little weird. But, I DID pet it.

One kid was apparently too tired to make the 20 foot walk from the sidewalk to our house. So…we moved the show to him. (he made his grandma pull him around in the wagon. What a life of riley this kid had)

At About 8:00, KB decided that we shouldn’t give out any more ‘food’ items like tomatos, just the candy. I guess the razor blade in the apple thing worried her. And I guess we don’t want to be known as THAT house.

I moved on to Easter Eggs, though (we had 12 blown ones from spring still in the house) Those went over OK with the young kids,, but by time I brought them out it was time for the teenagers. And they were just too cool for Eggs. Just too cool for any of it. And they were a tough crowd, because all they wanted was the grab and go. The little kids enjoyed the show that me and KB put on. Not the teenagers. Lots of eye rolling. But I made em wait. And I thought for sure we’d get egged or TP’d.

Neither happened and we got most of the candy out of the house. Except for the 2 EXTRA bags of Take Fives.

KB apparently likes those.
:)

Oh yeah...and the smoke bombs really stunk up the block.