Fall has always been my favorite time of year. Even though it meant summer vacation was over, the coming of Fall brought football and Halloween, and those were fun for me to actively participate in during my younger years, and then to watch as my sons found their own delights in those activities. Now, the Fall means thankfully less yard maintenance (this year it was more like heat-survival) and post-season baseball (GO RANGERS!). But I still enjoy Halloween just for the fun of seeing kids out trick-or-treating, some too young to really understand why their parents dressed them in odd costumes and took them to perfect strangers' homes to get candy, and those probably too old to still be doing it, but taking advantage of the opportunity to have some good clean fun and just be a kid for a little while longer.
Sir Ryan of Abileneshire, Knight of the Kid's Table (see photo at right) will be out Halloween night in search of dragons to slay and assorted treats. I have outfitted him with a shield bearing the company logo of my employer, and plan to take him to the homes of our competitors to demand they fork over the candy or suffer mightly blows from his plastic sword.
