In the past few years, the grown-ups in my neighborhood have been getting cranky about my lame costumes, and I'm starting to think it's actually having an effect on the amount of candy I'm bringing in.What're you supposed to be?A cowboy.Double baseball hats But I don't really have time to put together a good costume, because I'm in charge of planning out the best route for me and Rowley to take tomorrow night.This year I've came up with a plan that'll get us at least twice the candy we scored last year.

Halloween About an hour before we were supposed to start trick-or-treating, I still didn't have a costume.At that point I was seriously thinking about going as a cowboy for the second year in a row.But then Mom knocked at my door and handed me a pirate costume, with an eye patch and a hook and everything.Rowley showed up around 6:30 wearing his knight costume, but it didn't look anything like it looked yesterday.Rowley's mom made all these safety improvements to it, and you couldn't even tell what he was supposed to be anymore.