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Hal­loween is Here Again

I know what you’re think­ing. Well, I know what some of your are think­ing. Then the rest of you are think­ing, “Hey, that’s not a scary pic­ture.” You’re right. I fig­ure the web will be full of creepy, scary pho­tos and images today. Why be a fol­lower? I decided to go a dif­fer­ent direc­tion and share some­thing that’s not scary — unless you’re a teenage boy. In that case, see­ing a beau­ti­ful woman in a pool smil­ing would prob­a­bly scare the crap out of some boys. So, I fig­ure this photo has my bases cov­ered for the Hal­loween hol­i­day. You can decide if you’re scared or not. It’s all mental.

As long as we’re talk­ing about Hal­loween, I thought I’d share the results of the dilemma I posted last week. I ended up buy­ing a plethora of choco­late cov­ered candy. $50 worth of candy. Way too much, because the kids that come to my house are very polite and only pull out one piece when I hold the candy bowl for them. That sort of behav­ior just isn’t tol­er­ated in my house! I tell them to try again and come out with a fist­ful of candy. Some of the kids are absolutely delighted when I tell them “take more!” Oth­ers are a bit con­fused, per­haps because their par­ent have given them the rule and here I am con­tra­dict­ing what they were told. That usu­ally hap­pens with the tod­dlers. Some cute lit­tle princess comes up and pulls out one Snick­ers bite-​sized piece and thinks she’s got a prize. On the other hand, the older boys who come around don’t have to be told twice to haul out more candy. I guess it bal­ances out in the end.

When I bought my candy, the cashier asked me where I lived so she could bring her kids by on Hal­loween. Now that tells me I got the good stuff and plenty of it. If there’s too much (as if excess candy is some­thing that exists), I’ve from Carl Grif­fin that you can share this stuff with troops over­seas. Carl left a mes­sage on the site’s Face­book Page say­ing that a local den­tal group asks for the extra stuff to share. That works fine by me. If you find your­self in the same spot, I hope you’ll con­sider shar­ing it with some mil­i­tary folks who could use a nice treat.