I'm sure someone out there is wondering how a family with children handles Halloween a hundred miles from anywhere. The answer, as with so many other things, is we drive.
A little, anyway.
Our children do go trick-or-treating. In pre-COVID years, all the kids from the school would actually ride on a flatbed trailer and go all together. This is in the same village where our kids go to school, which is ten miles away from our house.
Starting last year, though, the separate groups went on their own, and we are the only ones who make our kids walk.
Yup. We're those parents.
It is, in our defense, a pretty small village. But definitely not as small as the number of inhabitants (less than 100) would indicate.
We visited exactly nine houses this year. Two of those houses were ones we stopped at in the car on the way in to the village, but the other seven were the ones we walked to. It took us a little over an hour to get to those seven houses.
The village is surprisingly spread out, and also more than half of the houses are unoccupied. So it takes a lot of walking to get to the houses that give out candy.
But! Lest you are imagining the kids sadly trudging between houses only to come home with exactly nine fun-size Snickers, please feast your eyes on Jack's haul.
Sounds like fun to me.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in the history of your town. I think you said it grew up there because there was water, but why is it shrinking away now? Just no jobs? But what did people do before?
ReplyDeleteLooks like the kids had lots of fun!
Kit: It was a railroad town. When the rail line was laid here, people who were living in the canyons and ranching--because that's where there's ground water and trees--came to live on the plateau. Our town was where the steam engines filled their water. But when the railroad was gone, there wasn't much reason to be in this particular spot any more and the exodus to cities began.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how trains have shaped our country. Many years ago there used to be a train station in the former hamlet (I don't think it was ever really a town) near me. The train stopped to pick up apples and other produce. The station is now gone and there's not a single apple tree anywhere nearby. The train still runs through a few times a week though. But now it carries gravel.
ReplyDeleteI'm noticing a lot of chips in the picture and applauding. Snack food is so much easier to use up than candy.
ReplyDeleteJP2GiannaT: That is definitely true. I'm always happy to see chips being handed out.
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