After some early season rainfall made me nervous about weather conditions for Halloween, October 31st arrived in beautiful shape, brilliant sunshine all day and a nice cool evening. My ghosts were my main new item this year, and they proved to be very effective. We had a massive turnout and despite the large supply of candy I had laid on, we almost ran out. There were no vacancies at the Bates Motel, and once again our basset hounds Maggie and Myrtle proved to be immensely popular with the visiting trick-or-treaters.