early

I'm not talking about early voting here, I'm talking about early trick-or-treating.  Seriously - we are done.  Already tricked and definitely over-treated.  Our town is religious about this event occurring the Thursday before Halloween, so this year, even though Halloween falls on a perfectly respectable Wednesday, we trick-or-treated a full week early. Blah.  But there we went...

a ghoulish girl, an inch worm and a neighbor!

I ducked out partway through to get our pizza dinner, but the best story of the night was that they arrived at a house whose front yard was full of beautiful lettuce, and the owner claimed to have run out of candy and was offering a big bowl of lettuce leaves.  The girls swear that it was the best lettuce they've ever had...

My favorite part of trick-or-treating is doing it with friends who are in for the whole pumpkin enchilada - zombies, fire demons, invisible men, all of them.  And then, of course, there is the creepy air force man with the gas mask who sits out every year, silent and daring.  We got his last piece of candy.