Today is Halloween. I can't remember if Mom and Dad had candy for the kids last year. I think they were gone, maybe. But in the past, they had candy for the trick-or-treaters. Although it was usually just tootsie rolls or dum-dum suckers, they DID do something. I guess they liked seeing the kids. I used to tease Mom about the fact they would only give them "one" tootsie roll each (and these there the tiny ones!), and she'd say, "Those kids go all over town. They get enough candy!" She was right. I Street usually got hit hard. People would come in from the county and drop their kids off in carloads. When we were kids, Dad would get a pumpkin and carve it. He even did this for me when I was in college (and maybe even when I lived there after college. ) His Jack-O-Lantern's always looked the same. They had triangle eyes and nose; a few teeth. He'd take a black crayon and draw it on first, then cut it precisely in his engineer way. He'd draw lines down the pumpkin to make sure the eyes and everything were exactly straight and centered. Then he'd put a can cut in half in there for the candle. It would sit on this black wrought iron table we had on the front porch. One time Mom bought a red devil costume for me. This is what I had wanted. I can't remember any other store bought costumes. We usually just threw things we had together to make a costume. That's all I remember.