How are you?

I'm good thanks for asking.

Have any great plans for the weekend?

Nah back to work tomorrow. Sunday and working, so no getting my drink on tonight!

 

Helped the brother-in-law begin to reclad his house today which was alright but made better by beer.

Reclad?

Replacing the existing weatherboards on the outside of the house with newer ones.

Ah! Yes, I can see beer helping.

always a good idea

we just burn stuff when there's stuff to burn. which is almost always.

 

beer is the primary currency for any home project assistance. the trick is not to start paying too early.

Halloween is coming up, is anyone dressing up or handing out candy?

and never pay by the hour, that's just dumb

Halloween is coming up, is anyone dressing up or handing out candy?

 

In the Netherlands, we don't really celeberate it.

i am handing out candy as always, and most likely just to two kids, and building a chocolate halloween house with them.

chocolate halloween house? YES PLEEEEEEAAASSSSEEE!!!!!!!!!

yeah but Halloween isn't really celebrated here either, too dangerous for little kids to walk around alone at night

MMM...chocolate!

 

I haven't had time to make a good costume, so this year I think I'll just be ruining old clothes, getting some cheap makeup and being a zombie. Our community has loads of kids so we'll be handing out tons of candy.

the kids are always escorted around here. i live on an isolated dirt road, so i only see the kids i know most years, but sometimes a carful will be driven up. and sometimes the kids i know bring others, so i'm always well stocked. i only give out the good stuff.

 

the chocolate halloween house is super easy to make, and whether you celebrate it or not, it's a fun day project for anyone who likes chocolate.

 

you just build it with the biggest block chocolate bars you can find. i usually use giant hershey bars, they go on sale for the holiday. use melted chocolate chips for mortar. the bars are nice and square so they go together easily into any houselike shape.

 

i build it on a cookie sheet. at the end i either pave the ground with chocolate bars, or some other candy, or a bunch of different kinds of squares of chocolate for cobblestones, stuck on with the melted chocolate, or i spread everything with chocolate frosting and sprinkle it with crushed oreos to make it look like dirt. then you can use tombstone shaped candy to make a little graveyard. decorate the house with any and all kinds of candy, stuck on wih the same melted chocolate.

 

we let it show for a few days until after halloween, and then the kids smash it with hammers, and freeze little bags of shashed house for munching as allowed.

 

gummy worms are an absolute requirement i have learned. everything else is up to personal taste. but the gummy worms must be there.

Edited October 22, 201113 yr by cindy

tis good to hear that you only stock teh good stuff and gummy worms are the stuff

i do what the children, and my own childishness, command. gummy as well as sour gummy and chocolate covered gummy are among the finest of the non-pure chocolate variety.

Love gummy worms! I sometimes stop by the store on the way to work and get some :)

chocolate covered gummy worms? I love America

chocolate covered gummy bears came first, but the discovery of the chocolate gummy combination was perhaps more momentous even than the discovery of the chocolate peanut butter equation. and chocolate gummy worms. well.

 

but these are easily made at home if one can obtain the gummy and any chocolate to melt.

 

just melt the chocolate slowly with a tiny bit of butter or margerine, or if it's cool out, oil. use two forks to dip and remove the worms form the choclate bath - work quickly, and perhaps pre-chill the gummies in the fridge to stave off meltinig.

 

place on a wax paper, plastic, or foil covered plate or cookie sheet to set, in the fridge if necessary.

 

and done.

I would love to see a picture of your Halloween house, Cindy.

i have some real pictures of old ones, but not the kind that would go on the puter...

 

we'll see if the kids take any this year.

Does the ipod have a camera on it?