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KDOGG331 said:
Thanks!!



I have never heard of going car to car. Do they all park somewhere? Around here they all still do the going house to house thing I'm pretty sure.
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Yep. Yesterday in Lovell it was at the LDS church parking lot. The one in Bryon was in the lot behind the Rec Center. Cowley’s was last weekend behind the Log Gym and we missed that one. Sometimes they have all kinds of carnival like activities - bouncy houses, games and contests, free hit chocolate and popcorn stands, even big trailers set up as haunted houses or fun houses. Lovell didn’t have any of that stuff, but Byron did. We just didn’t find out about Byron’s until we were already at Lovell’s, but that’s okay - that would probably have been way too much stimulation for Kendra to handle well anyway.

Folks decorate their cars and at the end the spookiest, the most fun, and the people’s choice awards are given out - usually just gift certificates to Red Apple grocery store.
 
Blooie said:
Yowser! Way too close for comfort. Glad you’re not cleaning it up. Bless your neighbor!



They did have fun, but I sure miss the “old” Halloween traditions. Not much fun going from car to car. There’s just something about welcoming porch lights on, pumpkins and decorations to admire, the sounds of feet crunching the leaves as they walk from house to house, and hearing all the squeals and laughter ringing up and down the blocks. <sigh>
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X2. I miss decorating. And seeing the costumes.
 
N F C said:
Trying to wrap up last minute work on getting the Casper house. Phone calls, emails, fees, etc. It's enough to frazzle a person.

We're still supposed to close Nov. 9th so all this preparation stuff should be over soon. Fingers crossed! :fl
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X2 fingers crossed for ya Debby! :fl
 
rjohns39 said:
In really rural areas they do that. Here my street is a mile long with 5 houses 3 of us have 1/4 mile driveways. Kids would get tuckered out pretty quickly.
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Ohhh that makes sense! We're not really rural here and have a lot of neighborhoods so that's probably why. Sometimes the mall does trick or treating events though where a bunch of the stores give out candy.

Blooie said:
Yep. Yesterday in Lovell it was at the LDS church parking lot. The one in Bryon was in the lot behind the Rec Center. Cowley’s was last weekend behind the Log Gym and we missed that one. Sometimes they have all kinds of carnival like activities - bouncy houses, games and contests, free hit chocolate and popcorn stands, even big trailers set up as haunted houses or fun houses. Lovell didn’t have any of that stuff, but Byron did. We just didn’t find out about Byron’s until we were already at Lovell’s, but that’s okay - that would probably have been way too much stimulation for Kendra to handle well anyway.

Folks decorate their cars and at the end the spookiest, the most fun, and the people’s choice awards are given out - usually just gift certificates to Red Apple grocery store.
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That sounds kind of fun!! I can see why you would miss walking around though. I think I would too.

CapricornFarm said:
X2. I miss decorating. And seeing the costumes.
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That's definitely the most fun part. Although we don't really get any trick or treaters because we are set back in the woods and people are probably either too scared or don't know we're back here. Plus we don't really have very many young kids in the neighborhood anymore. Although even when we did the only trick or treaters we used to get were my friends lol we had friends on the street right behind us and we'd all go trick or treating together and all go to each other's houses. But those were the only ones we ever got aha
 
Blooie said:
Yowser! Way too close for comfort. Glad you’re not cleaning it up. Bless your neighbor!



They did have fun, but I sure miss the “old” Halloween traditions. Not much fun going from car to car. There’s just something about welcoming porch lights on, pumpkins and decorations to admire, the sounds of feet crunching the leaves as they walk from house to house, and hearing all the squeals and laughter ringing up and down the blocks. <sigh>
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We still have trick or treators here
 

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