Should I be Dreaming of a White Halloween?

This is what I woke up to this morning. I took the photos (above) on my way to work downtown. Just a few days ago the same spot looked like this:

I blogged about it here.

There are still leaves on the trees!

I usually get quite a few trick-or-treaters at my house so I will be feeding sugar to the kids this Saturday—hopefully their costumes will be warm because I sure as hell don't want to be giving candy to kids who are just wearing coats.

But I also don't want to give any candy to kids dressed like Michael Jackson, Kate Gosslin (sp?—I don't watch the show) or the balloon boy either.

Once when I was a kid, but too old to go trick-or-treating, I decided at the last moment that free candy was too good a deal to pass up and decided to go trick-or-treating in spite of the fact the I was significantly taller than the other "children". I improvised a costume by cutting a neck hole and two arm holes in a large green trash bag. I wore it with pride and actually received some extra candy from people who thought that I was just too poor to afford a real costume.

I learned a couple of great lessons that year:

Nothing in life is actually free, and getting most of the good stuff like candy requires that you to do something humiliating like wearing a trash bag.

And, although not always, pity can often get you some extra junk.

Live and learn...

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