Friday, October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween! This was our first Halloween in our new place and I really was not sure how it was going to work out since we don't have a yard and the initial reports was that there were not many trick-or-treaters.
I took the day off, initially, because I wanted time to get ready but as the day drew closer, I took the day off because I also because I was exhausted. We spent much of the first part of the day doing chores like getting the car emission inspection (which took much longer to find than I expected, but significantly shorter to inspect that I ever thought.
By the time we got home, there was only about 2 hours before the first trick-or-treater arrived. I had just enough time to set the house up and carve the pumpkin head. Well, actually, I was about 15 minutes behind. But, not too bad. I kinda' pulled Halloween out of my butt, so to speak. The neighbors seem to like the set up (we got to meet a bunch of whom we had not met) and we talked about having a block-party next year. Most of the trick-or-treating took place between 5:30p and was done around 8:30p.
Oh, just one more thing, I made about seven children cry this year. About the same as last year, however, nobody brought their crying kids back for more suffering. With out anymore adieu, here are the photos (for those of you who are a little computer challenged, you can click on the photos to make them much bigger).
Part of the problem was I did not know if there were going to be a lot of older "kids" causing problems, so I tried to keep stuff out of reach and I thought the pumpkin jumping out of the window would be cool. It looked really good at night! The spiders, which used to be animated, were just hung off of the roof. There's a skeleton illuminated with a flashing light in the window, but no good pictures of it.
A couple of rats sitting in the basement windows. As I type this, I realize that the lights are still on! I better turn it off when I'm done here.
Our coach survived the trip. It took a while to inflate because the exhaust zippers were still open from last year and I could not remember where they were located. :-) Also, I successfully blocked my neighbor's front door. Fortunately, he did not mind. In fact, he lent me a smoke-machine! That was great fun!
You can see a little smoke at my feet. I didn't get any hay to have sticking out of my wrists and ankles, but I got scared a bunch of little kids and some adults, so it was all good! The pumpkins was a little small this year, but not much lighter. Oh well, that's why ibuprofen was invented.
A friend of ours from Ann Arbor sent a picture of the decoration of our old Northwood house. I guess no one told them of their community responsibility. Poor, poor, children of Northwood. Below is the picture:
I took the day off, initially, because I wanted time to get ready but as the day drew closer, I took the day off because I also because I was exhausted. We spent much of the first part of the day doing chores like getting the car emission inspection (which took much longer to find than I expected, but significantly shorter to inspect that I ever thought.
By the time we got home, there was only about 2 hours before the first trick-or-treater arrived. I had just enough time to set the house up and carve the pumpkin head. Well, actually, I was about 15 minutes behind. But, not too bad. I kinda' pulled Halloween out of my butt, so to speak. The neighbors seem to like the set up (we got to meet a bunch of whom we had not met) and we talked about having a block-party next year. Most of the trick-or-treating took place between 5:30p and was done around 8:30p.
Oh, just one more thing, I made about seven children cry this year. About the same as last year, however, nobody brought their crying kids back for more suffering. With out anymore adieu, here are the photos (for those of you who are a little computer challenged, you can click on the photos to make them much bigger).
Part of the problem was I did not know if there were going to be a lot of older "kids" causing problems, so I tried to keep stuff out of reach and I thought the pumpkin jumping out of the window would be cool. It looked really good at night! The spiders, which used to be animated, were just hung off of the roof. There's a skeleton illuminated with a flashing light in the window, but no good pictures of it.
A couple of rats sitting in the basement windows. As I type this, I realize that the lights are still on! I better turn it off when I'm done here.
Our coach survived the trip. It took a while to inflate because the exhaust zippers were still open from last year and I could not remember where they were located. :-) Also, I successfully blocked my neighbor's front door. Fortunately, he did not mind. In fact, he lent me a smoke-machine! That was great fun!
You can see a little smoke at my feet. I didn't get any hay to have sticking out of my wrists and ankles, but I got scared a bunch of little kids and some adults, so it was all good! The pumpkins was a little small this year, but not much lighter. Oh well, that's why ibuprofen was invented.
A friend of ours from Ann Arbor sent a picture of the decoration of our old Northwood house. I guess no one told them of their community responsibility. Poor, poor, children of Northwood. Below is the picture:
