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Answer to the puzzle…

Answer to yesterday’s puzzle.  It turns the fog from the fog machine into low-lying fog.  You duct tape the flexible duct to the fog machine outlet, run the hose through the trash can, fill the trash can with ice and the chilled fog will stay low.

Last year, we had the fog machine running for a while when The Curmudgeon came out the door all upset.  It seems our fog was getting inside the house.  We’re hoping the low-lying fog solves that problem.  😀

     G is sewing the arms and legs together so I can stuff them and assemble the voodoo doll this weekend.

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The horrifying death of my fog machine

 

     I wasn’t going to buy anything else for Halloween this year since I did buy two rather large props.  However, it seems I will be making another purchase.  My fog machine is dead.  I’ve had it for well over fifteen years.  I was hoping it would limp through this year, no such luck.

     I’d bought some fog juice and fog machine cleaner my last trip to Spirit Halloween.  Last night I decided to get off my duff, drag the machine down from the attic, and clean it.  I’m glad I did.  The machine gave one gasp and died.  I was horrified.

     I can’t go without a fog machine all the kids around here look forward to our yearly display.  Today I was supposed to go with G to Target to get paper Halloween plates and more candy (DH says we don’t have enough.)  Little does G know that we’ll be making a quick side trip, more out of the way, but on the way. 

     Now I have to decide what size to get.  Back when I bought mine, you didn’t have many choices there was only one available. 

Stop me before I buy more!

 

     Many of my Halloween decorations are old and worn out.  Therefore, the last few years I’ve been buying new stuff and slowly throwing away the old, decrepit, and falling apart decorations.  

     I should have myself banned from Spirit Halloween.  G and I went up there today to get HER costume.  I should’ve left my money at home because I found another prop I loved.  Yes, I bought it.  Yes, she got her costume too.

     What I went up for and intending to buy was fog machine cleaner and fog juice.  I did get those.

     However, I am the proverbial kid in a candy store.  I also found something irresistible to any writer—fun pens.  I now have a boxing vampire pen and two pens that look like blood filled syringes. 

     If I go to the store again, I may need an intervention…