Just finished up my candy give-away for this year's Halloween. Saw lots of unusual costumes mixed in with the usual ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, princesses, and superheros. One of the most unusual ones had a bent over Frankenstein's monster carrying the child on his back (the kid's legs were the monster's, sort of like you sometimes might see a kid on the back of a horse with the kid's legs being the horses hind legs). I thought it was a great costume!

I handed out about 6 bags of candy of various types, as well as some "ghoulish" toys (all in all I think I spent about $60 on this year's stuff). And I ran out before the kids stopped coming. Considering we're a very small community, we always have literally hundreds of kids coming around, usually in bunches of up to 15 per "gang" because the parents in the outlying areas pool together to bring them into "town" for the treats.

They started arriving at 5:00, and I ran out of treats by 7:15. That was better for me than last year, when I ran out of treats within an hour of starting to give them out. I think next year I'll go for more of the non-edibles...many of the kids seemed more excited by my neighbor's pens than my KitKats and Tootsie Rolls, and the toys were exclaimed over, too. (The neighbor said he gave out 100 pens, but he was giving them out 2 at a shot.)

I dressed as a frontier woman (one of the teachers said I looked like Nellie Olsen of the Little House on the Prairie series, and that's about right.) I had a blonde wig, a long calico skirt with a petticoat under it and a pearl studded long-sleeved, high-necked blouse. About the only part of the costume that wasn't what a female in the mid- to late-1800s wouldn't have had were my shoes, which were flat canvas casuals because I had to be standing all day while I taught.

All in all a pretty good day, even though my sugars are running pretty darn high again. (I found it really hard to stay out of the tootsie rolls.)