Northeast Gardening: Halloween What are your plans?, 1 by pixie62560

pixie62560 wrote:
Do you dress up? Decorate? Go to or throw a halloween party?? Or....
Do you lock the doors and shut off all the lights?? LOL

I try to dress up every year and decorate some, not as much as I used to when I was young. Also, had to give away most of my really scary decorations as the grandkids didn't appreciate them as much as I do. Have to go with "cutezy decorations" now...you know, Dora the Explorer, Whinnie the Pooh in a Bee costume, ect..... Seeing pooh in the Bee costume got me to thinking i'd be a Bee this year. Maybe I can sting a few politicians ;) I found one costume that was cheap, my grandkids love and DD can borrow to cover her ever expanding belly. (She's showing already). However when I punched in Bumble Bee Costume in yahoo search engine...I got an eye-full! Costumes were very skimmpy and it was like no bee you see out here in the country....although Brian opted I wear anyone one of them..I chose the traditioanl one. :))
http://search.costumesupercenter.com/search?p=Q&lbc=costumes...

Every year my daughter throws a Pumpkin Carving Party for family and friends. It started out w/the oldest daughter Nicki doing it but now the next to the oldest, Tiffany does it as she has more room.
I am in charge of growing (or buying on bad years) the pumpkins for all my grandchildren and making a dessert for the kids. There are usually at least 12-15 kids at this event....5 of them are my grandchildren :) Every kid brings a parent, no exceptions unless they are old enough to carve and gut out a pumpkin on their own. The reason I say that is because the first year i grew 120lb. pumkin and it took an hour just to gut it out!! Then it took 5 of those pumpkin stencils to go across it...we don't use giant pumpkins like that for carving anymore! LOL

Here's 2 of the pumpkins from last year's P.C.P.