How was your Trick or Treating turnout?

My house is typically an easy mark because I give out the whole large sized candy bars to Trick or Treaters. Last night was Trick or Treating in my neighborhood and maybe 14 kids actually showed up. Jody was a little bit ticked because she carved the pumpkins and made the house look “creepy”. I was a bit ticked because I paid for the candy and was hunkered down in the bushes wearing a John McCain mask hoping to spring out and scare the parents and few showed up.

How did your Trick or Treating turn out?

Although it's not a very UK thing, we went along with the spirit (ahem ) of it last year, got inundated and ended up giving away anything sweet (including fruit) that we had.

This year, better prepared still, yet a very poor turnout, despite clear skies.

regards

Ian

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Not good.
We were having an abbreviated night anyway, as we had dinner reservations for 730. So I was hoping the majority of little tykes would come around before we had to leave at 7.
As it turned out, we had one group of four, and another of three, and that was that. I don't know how many came around after we left, but it looked pretty quiet.

Our community has kind of discouraged door to door trick or treating, in favor of "safe" sponsored events like the Haunted House in Solvang, and Fright Night out in Los Olivos. So the kiddie count has been decreasing in recent years anyway.

I guess that means more candy for me.

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Grouch.

What if everyone did that when you were a kid?

Not good.

Our community has kind of discouraged door to door trick or treating, in favor of "safe" sponsored events like the Haunted House in Solvang, and Fright Night out in Los Olivos. So the kiddie count has been decreasing in recent years anyway.

"Safe" is always good IMO. There are a significant number of freaks out there just waiting for the right moment.

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Grouch.

What if everyone did that when you were a kid?

This is why God created eggs.

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Grouch.

What if everyone did that when you were a kid?

Yeah well, Gail accuses me of being a Grinch at Christmas too, because I won't cover the outside of our house with lights to rival Las Vegas, the way our neighbor does.

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Grouch.

What if everyone did that when you were a kid?

This is why God created eggs.

We live in a neighborhood of mostly retired Old Farts. Any kids who would come to our door are from outside the neighborhood, and thus are of no import. We have no family or close friends within miles with trick-or-treat-aged kids anyway, and when I was a kid, we usually hit homes of neighbors, relatives and close family friends.

Besides, even when we prepared for the little buggers here, we at most got a handful of stragglers, and ended up consuming the calories ourselves, much to the discomfort of our waistlines. This way, we avoid that.

My neighborhood is mostly college students. They were too busy drinking and puking in the bushes to knock on doors.

My neighborhood is mostly college students. They were too busy drinking and puking in the bushes to knock on doors.

Then they must love your floor to ceiling speakers.

I left those in CA- the ceilings here aren't high enough. So all I have is the refrigerator-size boxes. Four of them.

None. Maybe the fact that we locked the front door and turned the porch light off helped.

Most of the houses in my neighborhood did this, even though we have a lot of kids. I needed to go to the local mall and found a lot of kids their -most of the stores were handing out candy to costumed kids and there was photo-op deal with the great pumpkin. Safer than the streets. (well, I felt safer).

[Jenise]

My house is typically an easy mark because I give out the whole large sized candy bars to Trick or Treaters.

So do I, and as a result some of the big kids who remember come back. But little kids don't get as far as my house, I'm on the outer rim of the neighborhood in a kidless area with larger houses, some of which are second homes--kids can do a lot better elsewhere. When we left for the party up the hill at 7:30, we hadn't had anyone here yet.

We were visiting family in an Atlanta suburb and they live in what I would call a "kid saturated" neighborhood. (Very different for us, but fun at a time like Halloween.) My husband and I stayed at the house doling out candy while our hosts took their little one trick or treating. There was lots of activity! I would say probaby 40 or 50 kids came by. They were all very sweet and well mannered except one little probably four-year-old "darling" who peered into her bag after I dropped two "treats" into it and said (very whinily) "I don't like those." (Our hostess had a nice assortment of Nestles crunch, Baby Ruth, Skittles, etc.) She was trying to look into the bowl I was doling from to see if she could take something "better." What made me so mad is that her mother was with her and did nothing to correct the little brat's behavior.

Sorry to hear about that Carrie. We did not have to endure any whiney kids because there is a dentist on my street that hands out floss and tooth brushes whereas we put out the good junk.

I checked the front of the house today and the pumpkins still remain. What is wrong with kids these days? Those should have been smashed days ago.

Stuart,

You have only four refrigerator-sized speakers ? Sounds like it could be Legacy's Focus HD, like mine.

Stuart,

You have only four refrigerator-sized speakers ? Sounds like it could be Legacy's Focus HD, like mine.

Jeff,

I'm green with envy and would love a pair of those. Especially in rosewood. Have you found them to be worth the investment?

Nope, a mix of some homebuilt stuff and some not-stock NHT M3.3s (http://syclotron.com/?page_id=9). The ESLs were homemade, but sit in storage awaiting my purchase of a room with 12' ceilings, so the NHTs are a temporary substitute.

... Have you found them to be worth the investment?

Well, you've popped the lid off of one of my other hobbies. I truly love music; I listen seriously nearly all of the time. These Legacy Focus HD speakers are extremely satisfying and they replaced my JMLabs Focal Electra 915.2, largely for a better balanced sound. At current pricing $6500 per pair, there are a lot of other options for the money, both within the audio world and elsewhere, and so investment worthiness is hard to justify except to oneself.

But if you are sniffing around in the high end audio market, you can be sure that I am very happy and would make this purchase again. The cherry cabinets are lovely and the speakers look great. The pair's character is slightly laid-back in pace, slightly treble forward above 10kHz, highly detailed yet warm. Despite a sensitivity rating of around 93db, the Focus requires partnering with stout amps, ones offering significant stability and high current ability. The impedence drops below 3 ohms in a couple regions of high energy. The Focus HD provides great synergy with my electronics. Sources are two lowly-but-lovely machines: Primare's CD31 player and the VPI Scout turntable. The little QUAD 99 preamp and McCormack Platinum DNA-125 push the Focus along nicely, though the McIntosh MA2275 does well at lower sound levels too. It was a hard purchase decision, I very nearly bought the Acoustic Zen Adagio at only $4K.

Ours is always a poor turnout . I live on a little dead end street and it's really hilly around here. Most everyone on the street are in their late 50's...kiddos all grown up and no trick-or-treaters for yrs. Because of that, a lot of my neighbors don't bother giving out candy and haven't for the last 3 yrs. Trick-or-treaters remember this and don't bother coming all the way done the street just to come to our house.

Our street began to turn-over a bit last yr, so some of my children's little playmates ventured down road (we are at the end of the cul-de-sac). And they used to bus a batch of inner city kids to our street, so at least I wouldn't have bags of candy left over...they didn't do that for some reason this yr. (probably because my neighbors don't give out candy anymore).

So we had 3 kids come this yr...that's it.

... Have you found them to be worth the investment?

Well, you've popped the lid off of one of my other hobbies. I truly love music; I listen seriously nearly all of the time. These Legacy Focus HD speakers are extremely satisfying and they replaced my JMLabs Focal Electra 915.2, largely for a better balanced sound. At current pricing $6500 per pair, there are a lot of other options for the money, both within the audio world and elsewhere, and so investment worthiness is hard to justify except to oneself.

But if you are sniffing around in the high end audio market, you can be sure that I am very happy and would make this purchase again. The cherry cabinets are lovely and the speakers look great. The pair's character is slightly laid-back in pace, slightly treble forward above 10kHz, highly detailed yet warm. Despite a sensitivity rating of around 93db, the Focus requires partnering with stout amps, ones offering significant stability and high current ability. The impedence drops below 3 ohms in a couple regions of high energy. The Focus HD provides great synergy with my electronics. Sources are two lowly-but-lovely machines: Primare's CD31 player and the VPI Scout turntable. The little QUAD 99 preamp and McCormack Platinum DNA-125 push the Focus along nicely, though the McIntosh MA2275 does well at lower sound levels too. It was a hard purchase decision, I very nearly bought the Acoustic Zen Adagio at only $4K.

Wait until your kids are teenagers. You will really hear a lot out of that system!

Zero

I live in the perfect spot for Halloween. Our house is on a little cul-de-sac, and we had only a handful of trick-or-treaters, but two short blocks away is a street of Victorians that is Halloween central. I took a quick walk through it, and people had set up elaborate scenes in their yards, acting out scenes as Bigfoot or The Mad Dentist and such. There was a haphazard but enthusiastic marching band going up and down the street, along with a huge two-level four-person bicycle contraption with flaming torches.

I'm beginning to suspect the neighborhood must be attracting all the local Burning Man alumni.