Halloween Pursuit

Ahh, how Gertrud loves Halloween! Kiddies, candies, cute outfits and lots of visits. What more could she ask for. Those are all the things she loves. I remember last year she didn't get a lot of trick or treaters at her door, so she took matters into her own hands and went around the neighborhood and knocked at the doors of neighbors who had children and brought the candy to them instead. I thought it was pretty wild that she was hunting down the children who had missed her house, but also pretty cute. Since she had only moved to her new home recently and doesn't understand the ways of attracting kids to your house with lighting and pumpkins and other halloween decorations, only a few children had appeared at her door. I don't know how things went this year yet, but she is pretty ill and I don't think she'll be going around the neighborhood herself this year. I think this year, she may have to just sacrifice herself and Heinz and eat all the candy bars themselves. Not that she or Heinz will complain about that, since they are very sugar addicted. I suppose Heinz will start scouring the grocery stores tomorrow for the reduced candies. It is his long standing tradition to buy up all the drastically reduced chocolate and other candies he likes right after any major holidays. One year he bought a whole shopping cart load right after Christmas and put it into the freezer to keep it fresh. Well, it sure didn't help his diabetes and he was hyper active with sugar highs for weeks to come. He would sit in the evenings writing his letters till the early morning hours sometimes. Gertrud would often find him slumped over his letters having fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion chocolate still by his side.