If you've ever wondered...

whether lions like Fritos....now you know.

Halloween 2009 - possibly definitely the best one ever.

I know lots of people who simply don't care for Halloween. They find the whole thing silly, excessively commercial (that it is) and pointless. Not so pointless to the little kids though. To them it is a very, very big deal. They are out there, counting their sugary loot, trading favorites, rationing and already planning for next year's Halloween.

We had a so-so turn out of trick-or-treaters with attendance down from last year. Due to a shortage of time, there were no carved, lit pumpkins and little pumpkin candles leading them to the front door, confirming the fact that how inviting and in-the-spirit your house appears has a definite effect.

Through the years we've lived in five neighborhoods, including this one. There was the year when no kids came around because of the Great Halloween Blizzard (three feet of snow in one evening), the year no one came because we lived on ten acres in a rural area, and the year we decided to hand out small boxes of raisins instead of candy and the kids looked at them as if I had just handed them something that came from the rear end of a four legged animal.

What made this the best one ever was spending it with our dear friends and their grandbaby girl, excuse me...ferocious lion, listening to music, watching baseball and passing the Halloween toy, excuse me...grandbaby, around all evening, while handing out candy to the gremlins, ghouls, transformers, princesses, angels, gypsies and numerous superheroes. (I'm just guessing what some of the costumes were because, topping each and every outfit was a parka, as the mercury dipped close to freezing)

I suppose what I'm saying is: I like Halloween, despite all the reasons not to.