We took off early Saturday morning and drove over to Canton for Trade Day (flea market). Lots of cool stuff, but we managed to get out having bought only one item. It's a old ceiling light fixture with a very heavy glass shade. Most of the fixture is really ratty - but the glass shade is awesome. Don't have a pic up of it yet, 'cuz it isn't much to look at. Plans are for me to use the glass shade for a small bedside lamp for my Mrs. I'll post before/after pics when there's something worth showing.
On the drive over, we saw these:
Those are Belted Galloway Cattle, sometimes called "Oreo Cows". The breed originated in Ireland. Pretty cool looking....
Saturday evening we were home for the Trick or Treaters... all 6 of them. I shit you not,- we only had six kids come by our house all evening. What a drag. We get fewer and fewer kids by every Halloween. Hardly seems worth getting candy, now.
Got to see the Grandbaby, though, when my Daughter and Son-in-law brought the kids by at the beginning of their Halloween "rounds".
Bailey was a Pirate Princess this year... and even a plastic sword in the hands of a 9 month old can be an interesting experience :)
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Our Halloween was a bit subdued as well. While we had more than 6 kids show up, this is the first time since we've lived in this house that we had candy left. I'd guess we were about 1/3 less than last year. I don't understand that.
Lots of princess's, pirates and cartoon characters. Not a single Obama, which surprised me. That kid would have gotten a sucker. I felt that would have been appropriate!
We live in the middle of the block. Some of the houses right around us give out candy, but the bulk of houses at either end of the street go dark on halloween. I think the kids walk by the ends of the street and think the whole block is a no-fly zone. It's too bad.
Wish I had got the pic. This kid came as Obama with a rope around his neck. LMAO
The only kids I had at my house were my grandkids.
When I went to the Zeros subs down the street to pick up a couple of grinders for dinner, I saw quite a few kids on the side streets, but none on mine.
The road has just gotten too busy and the parents don't want their kids walking down it with the maniacs operating their 2,000 lb weapons on it.
I don't blame them.
I do think that house to house trick or treating is on the wane though.
More and more parents are going to church's, malls or other "safer" environments.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that we simply don't really know our neighbors any more. We don't meet at the back fence and shoot the breeze any more, we don't invite each other over for barbecues (I'm speaking in general here, there are, of course, exceptions), we just don't have the sense of community of decades past.
Sensationalistic news reporting of crime doesn't help anything either. Crime is actually at its lowest level in decades, but we're so fearful of each other because the media gives the impression that it's a war zone out there and every time we leave the house we are in danger of having our kids snatched or being shot down in the street.
It's a lot of factors, but I would expect that house to house trick or treating is going to become a thing of the past as more people stop bothering to give out candy because they get so few "customers" that it doesn't seem worth it any more.
Curt - Sad, but very very true.
Not many folks let their kids go house to house anymore. Most of them go to church parties here, or to a sort of "block party" where everybody meets up and hands out candy out of the back of their vehicles but they all know each other.
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