Picking Up After the Storm

On Halloween at Corbin Park, one does not sit idly behind the front door waiting for a Trick or Treater to come ambling up and ring the bell. One stands on the front porch and drops candy bar after candy bar into the little satchel of the constant throng of little darlings.

Our neighbors sit on the front porch as well and they have a clicker to count the throngs of little darlings and their number is the number I use for the official count of little darlings.

And so, according to the Horobiowski Meter, the official count for Halloween 2013 is 1,437. Not all of them were little darlings. In fact, I handed out many a candy bar to big fat 35 year old groty-monsters.

What's the deal with being a full grown adult and out collecting candy. Obviously, I don't know the back stories and I frankly don't have time to grill every Trick or Treater. But I know that some of those guys and gals, dressed up in full costume (to their credit) were not getting candy for some kid.

It was a GREAT night! The weather was just right. We had a sunny, warm afternoon for the set up which makes everything much more enjoyable. The work goes faster and the beer tastes better.

I need a synonym for "Trick or Treaters". I can't keep saying "the Trick or Treaters arrived at 5". "The Trick or Treaters were like the multitude upon the desert". "The Trick or Treaters were really old".

Anyway, things got underway with the really little kids at 5ish and we went until about 8:30. By then, the crowd is dying down and we are all getting very tired. So tired that the last groups that come up to the house get hands full of Twizzlers so we can run out of candy.

Many thanks to Ron, Kelly, Randy, Karen, Mark, Ellen, Rob, Olga and Natalie, our friends that came by to help out and enjoy the party. We could never pull this off and enjoy it like we do without their help.

We got a chance to break away and walk around the neighborhood and see what the other neighbors are doing. There are still a lot of houses that are dark. In fact, of the 80 plus houses around the park, I would say no more than 25 were participating in Halloween.

I've always thought that is such a weird dichotomy where we have 20-ish houses giving out candy and a thousand people show up.

I will say that the houses that participate really make it worth the price of admission. Down the street from us was "The Walk of Doom" and of course, the Walter Clan across the park from us put together a virtual amusement park across three houses.

The Full Size Candy bars don't hurt either!