Halloween Evening

I'm writing this while waiting on trick-or-treaters.  The lights are on, the jack-o-lantern is lit, the big honking bowl of candy bars is ready.

Canada Artist and Harbor Master are ready up in Montreal.  It's the first year Harbor Master has ever given out candy, but CA has talked him into it.

Graphics Magician is downtown with a friend, helping to take his little sister and cousin around trick-or-treating.

Social Hurricane is dressed up in skull face and cape, and is off to a small party with some friends.

Adored Wife and I are here, doing various little odds and ends.  It's the closest thing to an unscheduled evening I've had in a few weeks, and I'm kind of enjoying it.

Don't know where the cat is.  Sleeping somewhere, I suppose.  Little varmint was howling for breakfast at 5:00 AM this morning.

Fairly low-key day at work.  Staff meeting, correspondence and phone calls, some charitable aid work, shopping for the food pantry, some odds and ends of calendaring and scheduling, moving some paperwork around.  SH had the day off and slept in and did some household chores (and some video games), GM was at school, and AW was doing various household projects.

I don't think I've mentioned that she's applying for "jobs you can do from home on your computer."  It's pretty cool and she's made a few bucks already.  I'll have to devote a blog post to that.

Update:  the cat was sleeping on the stool, but all the joyful cries of "trick or treat" woke him up.  We had thirty-nine trick-or-treaters, a respectable number for our neighborhood.  Not too much leftover chocolate.  Things failed to gel in Montreal, and Canada Artist is now stuck with a bunch of Smarties and Tootsie Rolls and lollipops because Harbor Master is new to this and didn't understand about quality goodies.  CA says that next year SHE's buying the candy.

Hope all's well, friends, and God bless.