Mark Harvey's World: Pumpkins, decorating, trick or treating...fun (October 31st, 2024)

Greetings and salutations,

I'm happy to be "back" blogging during the "31 Days of Halloween". It's a nice chronicle of what has happened during the month. I missed doing it last year. It's nice to have something to look back on.

Today started early getting my kids off to school. The window was small to get lots of things done as my youngest got out of school at noon.

After school pick up we decided to drive into a nearby neighborhood to take some fun photos.

Once home I continued to get things set up and ready for trick or treaters. As I've said for over 18 years now...I live in the WORST Halloween house ever. Surprisingly, we had one ToT show up as we were returning home. I "think" she was the lone ToT here.

We carved pumpkins, listened to music and I got dinner rolling. We wanted to be out of the house before dark as we knew we would be out for a while.

I got my music rolling and all of the lights on and ready for what the night might bring.

We trick or treated in a nearby neighborhood with friends. It's always fun to creep around the streets. I brought my skeleton finger puppet and "threatened" people who I felt needed a little holiday cheer (or creeps). It's funny how a little finger puppet (and my intense manner) really freaked folks out.

I enjoy seeing what people do and how they envision the holiday to look. I enjoyed many of the houses I saw. It was fun to see some of the newer haunt technology in action. I still feel that people need to raise their music/sound effect game.

Back at home the haul that each kid got was small compared to last year. I think the houses are giving out less as ToTing is making a comeback in some neighborhoods.