It turned out really well, but by the time Halloween evening got here the sun started to collapse. Still, it looked pretty cool.
Owl in tree. I hate this tree but it works well for Halloween displays.
Of course, this looked much better in person with the right lighting. I had fun putting it together.
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Dang it! Sometimes I write posts on this blog and they never show up! Does that ever happen to you?
Anyway, cool decorations, Doni. Too bad not so many people got to see them. What I'd written about was that one Halloween that you guys decorated Michele & Gary's in Rohnert Park. That was so cool. I loved the headstones. And you were a zombie, I think. Amelia was a sheep. She was only one year old. She used that same costume when she was 18!!!
And I totally side with your next-door neighbor kid. I hate those pop things!
OK, let's see if this posts...
The year I came for your Halloween party you did Kevin's house and I wore a monk's robe and made my face a skeleton with greasepaint. And the next day your friends and family said, "Hey Dean! I haven't seen you in years!" And I got to say, "You just saw me last night." They didn't even know me. Heh heh. That was fun.
That owl looks real. Do you have pumpkin-carving tools? I mean to get some and I always wait until the last minute and everybody's out.
-dean
Nancy- I've had trouble leaving comments sometimes. I don't know what's up with that. It always seems to happen when I've written something brilliant and several paragraphs long.
That's funny Amelia re-used that costume. I remember her Brak costume. It was awesome.
Dean- I bought some little chisels a few years ago but they were total cheapies and couldn't deal with soft pumpkin flesh. I do have a Dremel tool. I've seen people use those on pumpkins. I wonder what kind of bit they use?
I don't usually do elaborate pumpkins. I used to spend more time on them. We had 4 pumpkins this year. they were $5 apiece! Up in Sonoma county you could go to an actual pumpkin farm and get them right out of the field. Cheaper that way. We'd have 10 pumpkins! Nothing like that around here.
I remember buying pumpkins at the grocery store for 9 cents a pound. Then those cheesy "pumpkin patch" places opened (take the kids for the annual Halloween tradition and pay five times more), and they wanted $X per pumpkin--suddenly they weren't actual food anymore. It took about 10 years for the grocery stores to get wise, and now you can't buy them by the pound anywhere. I do like all the weird new gourds, though.
-dean
ampsi--increase in price of a commodity because of sudden arbitrary "cachet"
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