Stumbled across this pretty cool pumpkin covered with ten bags of candy corn, here’s the info:
Presenting the amazing Candy Corn Pumpkin!
The pumpkin pictures shown are from loyal Brach's Candy customers Brenda Young, Janet Colman, and Ginny Thawley from The Eastern Shore of
Here’s the link.
My wife snapped this picture while I was hanging three spiders in our front tree.
She was concerned that they were high enough so nobody would hit them while walking underneath although we shared different points of view.
She was concerned somebody would get poked in the eye with one of the legs.
I was concerned that somebody would break one of the legs with their eye.
We work well together.
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Found these photos from 2009 during a visit to Kmart and Spirit stores trying on masks…why the heck are we taking all these photos?
Easy.
Try on the mask and someone snaps a shot with the cell phone then you can see how you look in the mask…a whole lot better than a mirror which most stores don’t have in the mask section.
Go figure.
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That's me in the werewolf mask looking dapper.
Well it's November and everything is packed away so I took a moment to look back on the props made for the 2010 haunting season..jpg)
Grabbed a bunch of photos my wife has taken with her cell phone....lots of Halloween images from the past 18 months..jpg)
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...at the Spirit store and
In mid October we took a trip to check out some of the Halloween merchandise available for 2010 and found ourselves trying on a variety of masks.
That's me in the first picture with the baseball cap and chomping a stogie...sadly the mask didn’t really make much of a difference.
This was a fun day.
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I will start out by saying that I’m not the most social person in the world.
Shocking I know.
I’m not shy and I am capable of mingling and carrying on conversations with strangers, it’s that I just don’t go out of my way to make friends with everyone I meet.
When our Halloween display is up we get about one hundred adults that stop by and want to talk about the seasonal decorations in front of them.
I’m cool with that.
Every year a few of the folks stick in my memory, these are the folks that deviate from the normal topics and take the conversation to strange new places.
The" Nativity Scene" Lady
This woman was very pleasant but somehow got the idea that I should use my papier mache skills to make a nativity scene for Christmas.
She said it once, she said it twice…she actually said it seven times (yes I counted) and I was cool with it until she said, “You should make a nativity scene instead of this Halloween crap.”
She lost me right there….she left saying she was coming back in two months to see it.
Little does she know that if I ever did make a nativity scene it probably wouldn’t be what she was expecting.
Do little fuzzy lambs have fangs?
The "You Should Have Done This” Guy
Every year this type of guy visits our display.
Every sentence starts with “You Should Have…”
“You should have made all the eyes light up.”
“You should have made a headless horseman.”
“You should have made this jump out.”
It went on and on.
I wanted to look at him and say, “You should shut up.”
The "Scary" Guy
This is the first year I ever thought we were really going to have a problem.
A man walked up to our front porch (which is behind the display) and approached me with what I can only describe as a gruff tone, appearance and demeanor and asked, “So, what is all this about?”
That's no greeting.....
I braced myself for something bad.
My reply was “It’s just our Halloween display.”
He looked at me, sort of smiled then asked, “Can I take pictures?”
“Sure” I replied.
Off he went a happy camper snapping his photos.
As the old saying goes I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover.
