The House at the Top of the Dark Hill

How much rejection do you feel when you can't even give CANDY away to strangers! Halloween 2006 has come and gone...Katharine and I welcomed all the little devils and ghosts...and all we got were a group of PITY trick or treaters in the form of our neighbors who brought their kids over simply because they felt sorry for us the year prior. The oldest kid didn't even want to come over...he had to...his dad made him. He scored BIG too...while his siblings received containers of Play-Dough, he got an eight pack of full size Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. I ate the Almond Joys and Katharine had the 3 Musketeers. That was it. Apparently, we're going to have to go back to having a Halloween Party next year just to get some attention on the holiday of witches and spirits.

I know why people don't come to us...it's that blasted hill we live on. Our hill has a 60 degree incline and the street light...the ONE street light...is off half the time. So it's a DARK, STEEP, CREEPY hill with only 4 houses...hardly worth the climb when only two of us have our lights on. That's what keeps them away...the exercise, which would be good for them with all that candy. I'll bet more people would come if I filled the yard with pumpkins and put an arrow at the bottom of the hill "Wait for the Great Pumpkin with Us" with an arrow pointing to my yard. Maybe next year. Did you watch that Charlie Brown special this year? Katharine bought it and we still haven't seen it.