"Well, we don't want to interact with kids at our front door, so are we going to take a pass this year? We only ever get a few to our house on this cul-de-sac. "My daughter said, "No way Jose'! We'll distance, mask up and use tongs to pass the candy straight from the bags into their bags."
To attract kids to
the corner of our lot, instead of our front door, I said we need to '
advertise!', let 'em know we're worth walking down here. So, we lit up a corner birch tree and a lilac bush with Xmas lights. Made a couple milk carton light things, pointed a jack o lantern down the street.....and by darn we lured so many kids for candy from the neighboring development that I had to empty my personal stash of Reese Cups
The moon was crazy bright last night as well....
Which only added to the effects of some very clever costumes:
a) ghost-guy on stilts (even his arms were long, touching the road in front of himself - like a giant spider coming slowly, silently, at you down the street.
b) and the 4 teens in horrific clown costumes, who just stood in the semi-darkness waiting for my daughter to notice them. The lead one crouching silently with wide spread arms - displaying a dim
"Free Hugs!" sign on his chest. (it's been awhile since I've heard my daughter scream!
Anyway....it was good to do something normal...
Daughter drew it -
I cut it (to save a trip to the E.R.)
Stig
