SPOOK-Easy is today’s twist on SpokEasy! Yes, it’s Hallowe’en again!

I used to love going trick-or-treating on Hallowe’en  when I was a kid. It was fun seeing the different kinds of candy than landed in our treat bags. There was some kind of peanut butter-flavored taffy, and squares of taffy called, if you can believe it, Banana Bikes. And sometimes fun-size candy bars! Those were considered something special.

We lived in a small, somewhat isolated neighborhood, with only two streets. As we kids got older, we would cover more and more territory until we were hitting all the houses on both streets. A couple of years after that, we outgrew trick-or-treat.

I remember some of the costumes I had over the years. When I was eight, I wanted to be a penguin, of all things!

The neighbors down at the end of the block always had a “witches’ cauldron”; a lump of dry ice in a bucket of water. They would also hang lengths of thread from the ceiling of the porch over the front door, so they’d feel like spider webs brushing against our faces.

As always, ride safe, and go SPOOK-Easy! Be sure those spooks don’t get into your spokes!