"With Covid running wild we can't have the Grandkids over for Trick or Treating," Margery said as she looked at her sister.
Dolores frowned. "I hate this pandemic crap."
They were in the living room and I was in the kitchen. I looked across the island between us and said, "Why not do it virtually?"
"Uh, what?" Margery, my wife asked.
"Like one of those conference call things," Dolores, her sister replied.
"It won't be a problem to set up," I said as I poured myself another cup of coffee.
"We can wear costumes," Dolores said with a big grin. "I've always wanted to dress up as a witch.
Margery frowned and said, "I wanted to be a witch."
"Why can't you both be witches?" I asked to stop any arguing.
Both women looked at me, before Dolores said, "He's right you know."
Margery sighed and shrugged. "Two witches it is. Now where do we get a caldron and those old style brooms?"
"The same place you get your costumes probably," I ventured.
Dolores gave me a hard look. "He's right again."
Margery grinned at her sister. "He usually is but I wouldn't tell him that for anything."
Dolores frowned. "He's sitting right there. He's not hard of hearing."
Margery laughed. "After thirty plus years of marriage, he doesn't listen to me anymore."
"Yes, Dear," I said with a big grin and a wink.
Dolores stood up and walked over to the counter across from me. She gave me a wink as she picked up her phone. Turning toward her sister, she said, "We need something that is kid friendly but sexy enough for John."
Margery looked from her sister to me and back again. "No bras and no panties will keep his interest until we're through with the kids."
"It would hold your interest also," I said with a chuckle. "Neither of you would venture out of this house without either of those.
Dolores groaned softly. "He should wear those cutoff blue jean shorts that lets the head of his dick show when he sits down just right."
Margery groaned also and shivered. "He'll have to stay behind the camera but...."
"But what?" Dolores asked with a confused look.
Margery laughed softly and said, "Neither of us will be looking at the camera."
"Not to mention all the lip licking," I added just to add fuel to a growing fire.
Both women groaned and nodded and then Margery got a leering look on her face. "Since he's behind the camera, he could just forget the shorts."
Dolores looked at her sister and then shivered hard. "With him like that, there would not be much of a video conference thingy."
"True, very true," Her sister said with a wink at me.
"Where is a good costume shop?" I asked to get things back on track.
"Uh.... I'll have to look," Dolores said as she turned her attention to her phone.
"How about candy for the kids?" I asked.
Margery shrugged and then said, "Maybe we could have some shipped to them."
Dolores looked up from her phone at her sister and said, "Why don't you look on line and see if there are plastic pumpkins with candy. You know, like Easter baskets."
"Now that we have all that taken care of, I'll make breakfast," I said with a grin.
*****
By the end of the day, the candy had been ordered and the ladies had made a trip to the Costume Shop.
I was grilling chicken on the pit off the back porch when they returned from shopping. As they came up onto the back porch, I asked, "Do I get a preview?"
"Not on your life," Dolores said with a grin.
"Just before we start the video conference call," my wife said with a grin much like her sisters.
"That's over three weeks," I said with a sad look.
"Poor baby," they both replied and then laughed at the same time.
As Margery started in the back door, she paused and winked at me. "Don't worry dear, the wait will be well worth it."
She started inside and then stopped again. "Oh yeah, the brooms, caldron, and some other stuff is in the back seat of my car. Would you be a dear and bring it in later?"
"No problem," I replied to her back as she went inside.
*****
The day before Halloween, the ladies had checked with the kids to make sure the candy had arrived. It had. They were also told that all the grandkids were excited and all of them would be in costume for the broadcast.
*****
We spent most of Halloween day setting the stage for our conference call. The ladies had painted an old bed sheet for a backdrop. It was a night scene with black trees and a big white moon in the upper corner. I had hung some tissue paper ghosts from the ceiling that blew this way and that with the air from the A/C vents. The brooms were leaning against an old hat tree.
The caldron was front and center with a little water in it, ready for the dry ice. I had glued a battery operated green LED to the inside near the bottom. I was hoping for green smoke from the caldron. I was also hoping the A/C vents would keep the CO2 from killing us.
Dolores had scrapped the paint on the front of the caldron into the message, "Witch's Soup."
A pea-sized piece of dry ice made just the right amount of smoke when I tested it. It also showed a spectacular shade of green.
I turned the big screen TV so I could see it from behind the caldron and set up my good video camera above it. After a little focusing and adjusting, I was all set to video chat from my laptop. I had it sitting on a table off to the side. I could see what was going on from our camera and all the kid's households would be displayed on the big screen for the sisters to see.
Also, I set it up so I could record the ladies.