Hold the eggs this Halloween. Not just the ones no one should be throwing around, but the ones usually on the ground, at Wiscasset's Raven Egg Hunt. There is none this year, I was sorry and surprised to hear. So I asked Parks and Recreation Director Lisa Thompson. As usual, her reply was prompt and sensible.

Thompson explained having multiple events close in time, from Scarecrowfest to the egg hunt to the parade and Nightmare on Federal Street, became too much to do successfully and efficiently with limited programming staff. So the department focused on the others. Might the egg hunt return next year? She replied, she will not rule it out.

Then came the rain, and washed last weekend's Scarecrowfest out.

Here's hoping for a mild Halloween afternoon and night to pack in as much fall and Halloween event fun as possible, a year after the windstorm moved the second annual Nightmare on Federal Street into the Wiscasset Community Center gym. The town made the right call to bring the party indoors as the region continued to recover from the damage. This year, if poor weather cancels the event, it won't be moved inside or to another date. Staff said the first 200 children to stop by WCC will get a candy bag.

So, there's a chance it will be a year without Scarecrowfest, the Raven Egg Hunt or the department's Halloween afternoon and evening fun. And that would be downright scary.

Or would it? If nature blocks the block party, make some fun it cannot foil: The homemade kind. Dress up your kid as planned, have candy or make cookies or art, and play games or watch the immortal classic, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

Show your children, when the weather outside is frightful, Halloween doesn't go away; it just stays home.

Wiscasset has company in a fall with some ill-timed wet weather. Boothbay Region High School missed out on its homecoming parade and bonfire due to last week's rain. Hopefully, the first anniversary of the windstorm brings the Midcoast some Halloween sun and stars, and dry leaves that crunch underfoot.

Waking up Tuesday morning to 62,850 Central Maine Power customers, including 1,924 in Lincoln County and 3,315 in Sagadahoc being without power according to CMP's website, was not encouraging, but the weather patterns have two weeks to improve for the big night.

Looking further ahead, Wiscasset's Early Bird sales are Nov. 10; and Thompson said Parks and Recreation is adding a new Christmastime event, a family gingerbread workshop Dec. 7.

So Wiscasset still has plenty of fun to run out the year. May the weather cooperate.