Trick or treat, smell my feet;

Give me something good to eat!

 

Thus ran our favorite ditty from childhood.  Not one of the goblins at my door last night uttered this rudeness....and every single one of them said "thank you"!  Ah, these polite mid-westerners.   And for a change, they were all in costume.   Usually I get at least one bunch of teens just dressed as themselves or, as they tell me if questioned, dressed like their best friend.  haha

 

My favorite was a little girl, probably four or five years old, wearing a bridal gown.  I said, "You're beautiful."  She replied, "I'm a wedding."   If wedding = joy, then yes she was.    In all, about sixty showed up; I had enough candy, and have just thrown out the leftovers.   No temptation in this house, thank you very much.

 

In other matters,  YANKEES!!!!    The first game was a heart-breaker;  2nd, a relief; but now, with number three successfully put away,  there is hope.  And what a game that was last night.   I am not big on watching sports, especially on t.v., but my heart has always belonged to the Yankees.   Back at the old Coeymans School, we were released from our classes to sit in the gym and watch the Yankees during the series.   There's just no team like them.  There wasn't in the 1950s, and there isn't now.

 

Yesterday Cheryl and her mom; Joyce and I went to see "Amelia."  Hilary Swank does a good job portraying the aviator, and in general, I liked the movie.   I hadn't known much about Earhart's personal life and am not sure how accurate the movie was, but it was interesting nontheless.  The 3-D Scrooge remake begins November 6 (?); well, early November anyway.   I am eager to see it, to my surprise.   How many variations of this story have we already seen??   But that 3-D preview in LA has whetted my appetite, so I'll be running out to the theater for this one.

 

In other non-news, I finally made it to the grocery store for a full shop.   Having nibbled my way through the week, not to mention having eaten way too many meals out,  I decided it was time to regain control of my intake.  I did laundry on Saturday, in keeping with my new policy of using electricity as little as possible during peak hours, which are weekdays 7:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.   It is less per kilowatt to use it before or after those hours and all weekend.   Since my washer and dryer are fifteen years old, you know how energy efficient they are...NOT.  I do this partly to keep my bill as low as possible; partly to be a good steward of resources.