I think you mean Wanderer, Fly! (and I believe he’s spoken for.)
That’s the attitude my kids keep pushing at me! I guess I’m going to have to tone down the curmudgeonliness.
We only ended up with about 15 kids as well. I think it’s just the natural cycle of small kids growing up. The peak era, in the 20 years we’ve lived here, was when my kids were older elementary aged and there were plenty of smaller ones all down the street.
Indeed I am…but, even so, the reaction was a nice ego cookie 
We only ended up with about 15 kids as well. I think it’s just the natural cycle of small kids growing up. The peak era, in the 20 years we’ve lived here, was when my kids were older elementary aged and there were plenty of smaller ones all down the street.
I ran out of candy early this year…usually I buy 5 bags and have a bag left over. Never can tell, I guess. There were a lot less 14-to-18 year olds out, but a lot more 7-to-10 year-olds.
We had exactly 30 TorTers show up at our door. All were very polite, taking only 1 or 2 items from the bowls and saying, “Thank you.”
We had 2 bowls of goodies: 1 with chocolate candies, and 1 with various toys (including some cool miniature containers of Play-Doh we found at Costco). Surprisingly, the toys were just as popular as the candy.
Thanks for the correction Em.
Wanderer, does this mean no lichen outside the home?
Awww… man!!! Now Walden is disappointed… again.
So, a week before All Hallow’s Eve, I started taking some of those
solar garden lights and putting them in glazed canning jars to make
Sun Jars. They charge up in the day and emit an amber glow at
night. I lined our driveway with 6 of them and 2 pumpkins.
Here’s what it looked like.
Here’s a closeup of a couple of Sun Jars:
And these are the Jacks-O-Lantern I made. The first was made of
a white pumpkin. I like how it glows.
We gave away 4 bags o’ candy, and we still have a couple bags
left for ourselves. Halloween is fun!
Ooooh, great Idea!
I like your Jack O Lanterns!
Yeah, Halloween is fun!
M
the jars are pretty cool. 
Those jars with lights are really neat. I might have to look into lights like those—I really had not heard of them. They would be fun. And nice pumpkin carving too.
Dude, stop spending all your time on your lichen collection! Botany is fine but is it really that romantic? Learn to play Misty on the whistle!
Why, are you offering?
How can I be lickin’ lichen, without my collection?
Yeah, come up to my place and I’ll show you my lichen.
Thanks! I stole the idea for the SunJars from designer Tobias Wong.
[u]Some British design company has licensed the idea[/u], but hasn’t gotten
around to selling them yet. I couldn’t wait around forever, so I made
some.
I can’t see those glass jars lasting even one night in my neighbourhood. They’d all be smashed. Those little sun-powered night-lights disappear as fast and as completely as a sock in the laundry. Its a mystery!
djm