I live in a town house community where there's lots of kids The number was down this year a bit because it was raining, so I got a lot of little ones accompanied by parents.

I set up an old cast iron bubble machine that I own (left at a nightclub that a friend of mine worked at long ago and passed on to me) out on the front steps and it's hard to get the little ones OFF the stairs to make way for the next ones.

For some years during all of this, I'd traditionally watch Abbott & Costello meet some scary being from the Universal Studios stable, but it seems I finally ran out of those and watched Harold Lloyd in "Haunted Spooks" as well as another of his shorts. I had to use the pause button a lot, of course.....

We also used to collect money for UNICEF while we were out and go turn it into the church at a given time to be counted. Some who didn't go back out and try to fill their pillowcase (no mere plastic punkin for some of us) would stay at the church and help count money and others would claim they did so they could stay out longer. Nobody does the UNICEF thing any more, do they?