Seems like yesterday

These two gobblins were ready to go in 1987. Both of these costumes were homemade. I made the jack-o-lantern from a pattern, and the princess costume was put together from some dance outfit I had left over from the high school jazz team uniform I wore.

It's almost time to get out those pillow cases as back up for when you're little bucket gets full.
My brother and I used to go all over Carter County on Halloween night. My Mom would drive us, but we tried to get home before very late. Some years it was scary. One night the spooks had trapped a Sheriff's deputy in his car by cutting down a tree that fell across the little country road. They waited for him to get to the scene, and cut one and let it drop behind his car. We listened to this on our scanner (yes, we had one back in the 1970s) and when the deputy would get out of his cruiser to try and clear the debris, they would start shooting at him.
Just another Halloween night in redneck country.