Happy Halloween and Samhain to you too, my dear Mme Venus and I'm crossing my fingers that the rain will stop!

Have a great weekend!
*hugs*

Thank you! The rain's been on hold for a few hours... *fingers are crossed too*

I'm glad that it's raining here because it will deter the hooligans. Although we haven't had too many mishaps since the kids born in 1986 got out of high school. Seriously, I don't know what was wrong with that year.

Also, I signed up for the PBFE! I'm excited to start writing again. :D

We always get the trick-or-treating teenagers (which I don't understand-- my parents never let us trick-or-treat after a certain age). Not so much with the hooligans otherwise, thank goodness.

Hey, you signed up! That's a good sign. :D

A feel a wee bit pukey. A hink a hud a wee bit too many sweeties...and cake.

A hink a hud a wee bit too many sweeties...and cake.

Can't blame you a bit. What a way to go! ;)

Trick-or-treat! :D

Now, why does THIS not surprise me?

Hope you like Tootsie Rolls-- I've got a lot of them. :0

I love tootsie rolls! Ooh especially those orange flavored ones.

Thank you!

*koff* Sadly, I like the orange-flavored ones too. Perhaps that should be liked at this point. :0

We have lots of the chocolate ones, though. I personally don't understand the point at all of the vanilla, lemon or lime ones. But the orange? Oh yes!

Thank you for the pimping! *bounces* I really hope we'll get a good variety of different likes and dislikes for this round, because that's what makes an exchange click, yes?

I really hope we'll get a good variety of different likes and dislikes for this round, because that's what makes an exchange click, yes?
I hope there are enough participants and enough variety for that-- often the best results come from writing the unexpected. Good number of people signing up so far, so that's encouraging since it was only opened up yesterday!

Early days yet, and yep, we've got a few sign ups already. Hurrah!

Do you have lots of candy in your house at the moment? Please note, I remembered to say candy, not lollies. *g*

We have TONS right now. Christopher got a whole plastic pumpkin full before he was asleep on his feet. Lauren went with some friends (*cries*) and they all covered a LOT of territory. Her total haul was 250 pieces, which even SHE thinks is too much.

And the Tootsie Roll mix I bought this year... well, we didn't get as many trick-or-treaters as we expected. Some streets farther down the neighborhood put up barricades and go whole hog on the thing, and we drove down after visiting our neighbors. There was an incredible PotC house, with animated pirate characters, canons in the dormer windows, fog machines, PotC music-- just fantastic. Made it worth going all the way down there for the grownups, that's for sure!

Halloween is pretty much a non-event in Australia, apart from a few things done at school (for the little ones) and drunken parties for the not-so-little ones (but Aussies use any excuse to have those), which is sad. I'd like to experience an American style Halloween one day - I mean, I've been seeing them on televisions for the last forty-two years, man, lol!

So, tootsie rolls. I'm still unclear as to what these are, to be honest.

It wasn't until the last ten years or so that I realized Americans and Canadians are really the only ones that celebrate Halloween-- I thought people in the U.K. did too, at least, but I think it's mostly just over here. It's too bad-- I've always loved Halloween (second-favorite holiday next to Christmas), and it's such a bright spot in the Fall. Though you'd have to have yours in April to get the true sense of it.

Tootsie Rolls have been around in the U.S. since before I was little. They could probably be best described as chocolate taffy-- very chocolatey taffy. Surprisingly good! Normally I buy things with no chocolate whatsoever, so that they stand a chance of making it to Halloween to begin with. ;)