OK, so here I go with this daily blogging thing.

Last night was a pretty good Halloween in our neighborhood. The weather was nice, the homeowners were generous with the sugarized products, none of the teens who live on my street were delivered back home by the police (again), and there were only a couple prostitots.

I don't know what it is, but some kids have a need (as I did when I was young) to sort their candy after they get home. As soon as we got in the door, my kids dumped out their bags and started separating the contents into categorized piles: chocolate, caramel, chocolate/peanut butter combinations (my favorite), hard candy, gummy products, Sweet Tart-like items, non-food items, etc. No cans of pop this year, which my kid got very upset about a couple years ago; it's one of those things that on any other day of the year it would have been happily received. I guess the idea of sorting is to weed-out the stuff they don't want. My oldest kid engaged in re-gifting (a practice usually reserved for Christmas) by giving his undesirable items to the trick-or-treaters who were still coming around. At that late hour, it was mostly the older kids.

By the way, how old is too old for trick-or-treating anyway? We discussed this annual topic this morning at the office. My feeling is that if you're old enough to have a driver's license or to shave, it's time to give it up. However, there seems to be one exception to this: if you take the time to come up with a creative costume, you can get away with it. After we got back to our house, I went out to sit on the chair out front (after all, it was a nice evening) to watch the "big kids" come around. There were some pretty good costumes out there, which were countered only by the occasional lazy seventeen-year-old with a pillowcase dressed as a lazy seventeen-year-old with a pillowcase.

I did get out to do a little photography around the neighborhood. I forgot to take along my tripod, so a lot of my pictures didn't turn out, as I had a hard time holding the camera steady long enough for the longer shutter times. However, I did get a few nice ones, such as the one included here, my favorite of the night. You can click on it to see a bigger version of it.