The deck in the light (good flash!) and how it appears in the dark.
You can’t see the bloody eyeball lights, or floating ghosts and flashing eyed skeletons here. Too bad.
This spider was swinging right by the door, high enough not to scare the little kids, but he would swing right into the peripheral vision of the older ones – good for a jump or two!
Plus the pumpkins. We each get one, hence the 3 pumpkins, yet it always seems to fall to me to carve them. Hubby and son pick their patterns, and simply hand them to me. We will be working on that in future years. If it looks like 4 pumpkins – this year I chose a conjoined twin pumpkin and did the “scary mummy face on one side/wacky fun face with glowing eyes on the other. Fun stuff.
Young son was an alien, complete with electronic voice changer – worked like a charm!
Because we have a young child, and live fairly close to the school, we get a fair number of kids – Hubby, aka Statsman, keeps track of how many kids come during each half hour time frame. (He had better never call me anal again!). We treated over 80 kids this year, give or take a few when the crowds were big enough to lose track on the count. With very few exceptions, every little girl under the age of 10 was a princess or fairy or some combination of the two. And the boys? Superheroes. Superman, Batman, the Thing from the Fantastic Four, Spiderman, you name it. Made me feel safe, knowing my house was surrounded by all this super power.
The best house on the street? About 10 doors down – new owners, young couple with lots of friends. Graveyard in front lawn, with corpses rising out of piles of leaves, Gargoyles grabbing at you as you walked up the driveway, the witch on the porch handing out candy. Fabulous. But just when you think you’re safe, as the kids come back down the driveway (giving the first gargoyle a wide berth), the guy hidden in the hedges pops out. Scared the crap outta me, I tell you! I was standing not 5 feet from him, waiting for the kids, and never saw him. Full marks for the scare factor when you get the parents jumping out of their skins!
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You'd love the house I saw last week; they were transforming their front yard into a dungeon. Looked like they were using a similar framework, with faux-stone 'walls'. The pumpkins are great and so is DS's outfit.
We've had so few in the last years (about 8 groups last year) that we didn't even decorate or give out candy this year.
I just flashed back to grade school, and how fun/scary it was at the house catty-corner from the school: they had dry ice in a cauldron on the porch, along with much more decoration than anyone else in my area. Now, the places like yours and the down-the-street neighbors are beyond our imaginations back then.
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