Scraps of my Life

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM “SMALL TOWN” NORTH DAKOTA!!

Halloween in Mott is very different than what I am used to. The local weekly paper that comes out every Monday came out last week with an odd boxed blurb on page 2:

Trick-or-Treating from 4pm to 6:30pm (or after the football game) Dinner to follow for those in costume at the High School Cafeteria

Hmmm…I didn’t quite follow this so I asked a local what the heck it meant.

Here in Mott, the town kind of determines when trick-or-treating will take place.  This way it can been done before it gets too dark or too cold…then the Women’s group feeds anyone who wants to dress up and come over.

This way, Brian was still working, but I could feel safe sending David on his merry way cuz it was light outside and I could sit on the porch giving out candy to the kids who came our way.  Since we are on the North and East edges of the city limits, we mostly got traffic from those kids who live around us.  Another nice thing about the prescribed T-or-T time is that just about EVERYONE is home handing out candy during that period…we are talking 2 1/2 hours here…we gave out candy for a lot longer than that in Vegas and in So Cal.

David is getting to the point where he is losing interest in T-or-Ting…He walked around for about a half hour then came and home and gave out candy.  Next year he only wants to give out candy…he says today…we will see if he still feels that way a year from now.

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