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Whew! Trick or Treat hordes!!!

      We had so many Trick or Treaters show up that I had little time to take pictures and keeping my cauldron filled with candy was quite a trick.

Six pumpkins and a bottle of wine later…

     Okay, only three of them were big enough to carve.   Pictures will be posted tomorrow night.  I didn’t do any fancy carved ones.  I went lowbrow and easy.

The pups are ready for Halloween…

     Okay, if the dog Halloween hats had not been only $1.47 and were at their regular price of $5.99, I wouldn’t have bought them. 

I need a keeper

 

     I shouldn’t go shopping at this time of year.  At least I shouldn’t go without a keeper.  No, G isn’t my keeper she’s my enabler. 

     We went out shopping for three pumpkins yesterday.  We brought home four…and three teensy pumpkins, a neat garland, a fake pumpkin with light inside that changes color, a dancing, singing broom, a sign, and a battery powered color changing light for a pumpkin (I now think I should’ve bought two more of them.)

     I couldn’t help myself, all the stuff was half price!

Week of preperations for Halloween

 

     The beef BBQ/sloppy Joe dinner is made and ready to reheat in the crock pot Friday.

       Today G and I are going to pick up a couple of pumpkins to do some silly carvings–not the usual fancy stuff this year.  I’ll do the carving Thursday night.

     Wednesday I’ll do some last minute cleaning and get the house ready for Friday night.  DH has picked out the Halloween movie to play–I don’t ask I wait and see.

     I am undecided as to my costume this year.  It might be what I wore last year,  or I might do a Zombie costume.  It depends on the weather, the Zombie outfit will be much warmer…after all it’s easy to layer clothes in that costume.

     Until tomorrow…Boo Y’all.

Friday night the trick or treat invasion begins

     If you’re in the neighborhood on Friday night, come look us up.  We’ll be the ones with the music blasting, strobe lights strobing, fog rolling, props a hopping, handing out tons of candy, trick or treat house.

     As usual, after the trick or treaters have finished, we will have our  monster mash.  No party is complete without various Vampyre, Zombie Zin, and Howling Wolves vintages.

     For the second year in a row will also be celebrating neighbor Dominique’s birthday with one of G’s special halloween birthday cakes.

When things go bump in the night…

     In this house it most likely isn’t a ghostie or a goblin, it’s probably DH dropping something upstairs.  If not him, it’s a silly Bull Terrier rolling around in his or her crate.

     Then again, it could be the neighbors we share a wall with, the one son does tend to jump those last few stairs–he’s done that since he was a small child and we’re used to it.

     I say it most likely isn’t a ghostie because our last one left us a while back.  DH’s grandfather stayed with us for a few years when we were first married.  He died a couple of months before we married….  I’m sure he stayed just long enough to make certain we were doing okay.  Once satisfied, he left. 

     I sort of miss the door to his old bedroom opening and closing on its own and things moving from one room to another.

Driving DH crazy, one day at a time

     I managed to drive DH crazy most of the evening last evening.  My props arrived in the afternoon and I couldn’t resist playing with them…a lot.

     Of course, he played with them too, but he’d never admit to it.

Getting spooky

     Only a few of the props that we have set up.  My batteries died before I could get the rest of the pictures taken.  I’ll take more when the new prop arrives.

16 days to Halloween

 

     We are somewhat ready for the hordes.  Candy is stockpiled along with small toys.  I need to drag props down from the attic.  However, I’ve been on the lazy side and am thinking of bringing down only my better props this year and leaving the simple stuff in the attic.

     What can I say?  The idea of dragging it all back to the attic this years is the kicker.  I’m thinking this is a good year to KISS it.  (For those who don’t know what that means–Keep It Simple Stupid.)

     Vampyre, Zombie Zin, Royal Bitch and Wolf’s Howl wines are waiting to be opened.  I’m ready to party.

We’ve gone batty around here

     At least, we’re starting to.  I finally got around to dragging the first several Halloween decorations down from the attic.  The front porch is beginning to seem more Halloween festive with the orange and purple lights in black garland.

      The spooky placemats are on the table and the spider goblets are ready for the several Vampyre Wines and Zombie Zin I bought yesterday.

     I have to take my Japanese tea set upstairs and bring down the spider candlelabra to replace the tea set on the center of the table.

      Gargoyles, spiders, skeletons, and ghoulish things are beginning to wander into the house decor.  The dogs have stopped barking at the haunted mirror after two days.

     Yes, we’re getting batty…

DH doesn’t do animatronic repairs

     Where’s a animatronic repair person when you need one?  I’d forgotten that my barrel zombie wasn’t working.  Now I have to figure out if I can get it working in time for my trick or treaters this year.

     Maybe I’ll dress DH up and put HIM in the barrel.

     Or perhaps someone wants to volunteer for the job?

     I need to clear the plants out of my planters on the porch before the end of next month so we can stand there to hand out candy–the plants have taken over the porch.