Mom And Her Fun Lovin' Ways

Mom's fun loving ways was such a big part of her life. She would go to so much trouble to "pull off" a funny incident on someone. I know that Tom still remembers how she would put a sheet over herself and slip outdoors where the grandchildren were playing after dark. She would run at them making a scary sound and scare the stuffing out of them--I know that all of the grandchildren remember her doing it.
One of my favorites is one Halloween she had obtained a pair of overalls from someone (maybe Ralph--the one she doused with water) I know that he wore them when he wasn't cowboyed up. Anyway--she dresses in the overalls, old shirt and puts straw around the neck of her shirt and somehow attached some to the base of the pants. Her face was painted and she put a hat on her head with straw stuck underneath and hanging down---now we are talking about a sure'nough scarecrow here!!
She sit in a chair right next to the front door-let her head fall to the side- she had pulled the hat low enough to cover her eyes so no one could tell that it was her...Now she awaited the trick or treaters to come visiting--when they came and would knock on her door, she would let them do it several times before she reached out and grabbed their arm while saying in a loud voice "SHE'S NOT HOME". The children would scream and she would laugh. A friend of theirs brought his son and after the little boy knocked several times, the Dad tells him to knock harder that he knows she is there he could hear the t.v. About the the time he knocked Mom jumped to her feet and yelled "she's not home" --it startled the 2 of them so bad, the little boy took off running to the car and the Dad fell off of the porch.
Oh, what fun she had and loved to tell it, remembering what the children and parents would say---everything from "is she deaf' to "I hope she made her popcorn balls for us ".
I have told my grandson, Cade this story many times and he loves it..
Oh yes, can you guess which house all of the children LOVED to trick or treat every year?? You just never knew what on earth she may have thought up----all for fun and to make someone laugh. What a woman!!!