Great Pumpkin Report
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3 This year's parade of treat seeking youth was light. We had only 9 bouts of the dogs barking at the door, with a total of 42 kids. The callers started at 4:30 PM and the last one was at 8:30 PM. Some of the costumes were cute, most were bundled up for the cool night air, so only whisps of the costume were visible. Only two kids had extra bags for "others" not present and accounted for. The parents were all quite nice. One mother made a point of complimenting me on my pumpkin, my costume, my John Kerry sign, and house (exterior), and nudged her husband to wave hello at me from the sidewalk; I got the message, clearly a very welcoming and affirming Unitarian from the nearby church.
I wore my usual renaissance garb. Gwen, with her deep Rottie bark, leaping up to peek at them through the window in the door, scared some of the kids. I was dog sitting Ashley for twincitiesbear for the weekend, a big black lab, would bark too. I would (faux) yell at the dogs "Back Fang! Back Cujo! No! Down! Back!" and then give the kids their treats while holding the beasts at bay. Of course, anyone who knows these dogs knows that Gwen is wonder chicken, all bark and no bite; and Ashley is just excitable and was trying to nose in to get pet and maybe score some treats. But the kids didn't know that.
None of them showed up during the excellent season finale of Dead Like Me; so none of them got to experience true fear for disrupting me during an engrossingly good show.
This year's treat was my usual individual wrap fortune cookies. The kids love them, they're like lottery tickets to them. They're better than all the candy bars, and they're clearly commercial and factory produced (a.k.a. safe). They're inexpensive, so I give out handfuls, which impresses the kids even more. I get about 350 of them for $20 (prices went up this year) from Keefer Court, a local manufacturer.
Once I got to tour the facility, which means they took me into the back room and showed me The Big Machine. It was like being a kid and watching Sesame Street all over again. All the ingredients go in one end and finished cookies, befortuned and wrapped come out the other.
Current Tea: Red Rose (Orange Pekoe)
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3 This year's parade of treat seeking youth was light. We had only 9 bouts of the dogs barking at the door, with a total of 42 kids. The callers started at 4:30 PM and the last one was at 8:30 PM. Some of the costumes were cute, most were bundled up for the cool night air, so only whisps of the costume were visible. Only two kids had extra bags for "others" not present and accounted for. The parents were all quite nice. One mother made a point of complimenting me on my pumpkin, my costume, my John Kerry sign, and house (exterior), and nudged her husband to wave hello at me from the sidewalk; I got the message, clearly a very welcoming and affirming Unitarian from the nearby church.
I wore my usual renaissance garb. Gwen, with her deep Rottie bark, leaping up to peek at them through the window in the door, scared some of the kids. I was dog sitting Ashley for twincitiesbear for the weekend, a big black lab, would bark too. I would (faux) yell at the dogs "Back Fang! Back Cujo! No! Down! Back!" and then give the kids their treats while holding the beasts at bay. Of course, anyone who knows these dogs knows that Gwen is wonder chicken, all bark and no bite; and Ashley is just excitable and was trying to nose in to get pet and maybe score some treats. But the kids didn't know that.
None of them showed up during the excellent season finale of Dead Like Me; so none of them got to experience true fear for disrupting me during an engrossingly good show.
This year's treat was my usual individual wrap fortune cookies. The kids love them, they're like lottery tickets to them. They're better than all the candy bars, and they're clearly commercial and factory produced (a.k.a. safe). They're inexpensive, so I give out handfuls, which impresses the kids even more. I get about 350 of them for $20 (prices went up this year) from Keefer Court, a local manufacturer.
Once I got to tour the facility, which means they took me into the back room and showed me The Big Machine. It was like being a kid and watching Sesame Street all over again. All the ingredients go in one end and finished cookies, befortuned and wrapped come out the other.
Current Tea: Red Rose (Orange Pekoe)