Yesterday afternoon I put up our Halloween decoration. Yep, just the one. And I didn’t put it “up”, I plugged it in. It’s a Tigger thing, one of those blow up dealies that people put on their front lawns. Except this is only about four feet high. Tigger popping out of a pumpkin.
And I washed the black plastic kettle for the candy.
Chopped green peppers and onions, sauteed them in one pan while I browned hamburger in the other. Halloween night is the night for spaghetti. Once the meat was browned, I added a jar of spaghetti sauce (I’ve gotten lazy) and cooked it up for a while, then put it in a crockpot along with the softened peppers and onions. Set it on low, then later lowered it to warm.
And I did something I rarely do. I cooked up the noodles and added those to the sauce. Usually, I only do this for the leftovers, but tonight, I figured one pot to clean one be plenty.
When Brian got home, dinner was served, so there wouldn’t be any having to get up from the table to hand out candy (I do have some dishwashing to do).
We got about thirty-five kids, the last bunch a little after eight. And by that time, Gilly and KittyMeeze were ready to eat, so after they left, I unplugged the decoration, took down the baby gate at the door and we were done.
Brian moved the truck from the steps (steps are old telephone poles that have rotted and they are absolutely not safe to walk on), put it back in the driveway.
At first, the decoration was in the entryway, but as the night progressed, I mentioned it might be better out front where people can see it. Our house is down a slope and it’s awfully dark out there. Maybe if they could see the Tigger, they’d know there was candy here. So, Brian moved it for me and I think that helped to about double the amount of trick or treaters we had from how many we had last year. Last year, I heard a kid tell his parent that he didn’t want to come down to this house, it was too dark and scary.
We do have leftovers. Let’s see if I can be good this year and let Brian have the lion’s share of candy.
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