Getting Ready For Halloween

Well, Halloween is coming, and since Katrina is a bit too old to go Trick-or-Treating this year, we decided to decorate the yard and then put together a haunted house for the kiddies. This posting is for the yard decorations, we'll put up pictures when we put the haunted house together on the 31st.

Here is the mini-graveyard put together. The headstones on the ends have red flashing 'eyes' in the skulls.

Since Katrina is taking Advanced Anatomy in school she felt she was qualified to put the skeleton together. I guess she is kind of getting her mind into the part.

Well, I must say, the skeletal layout looks a little strange. What ever happened to the, "Ankle Bone Is Connected To The Knee Bone" dealy?

Meanwhile, the pirate in the crow-cage, looks on from the carport.

We also decided to put up this floating ghost which runs back and forth along a wire. We have to remember to duck whenever the thing goes by.

For the last large tombstone, Katrina decided to ham it up a bit. Alas, poor Youric, I didn't know him at all...

Here is the final setup for the larger headstones. Each headstone has its own creepy-beasty coming out of the ground.

The smaller headstones in the mini-graveyard look pretty good.

And for good measure, we put up a spiderweb and a couple of spiders. If you look past the web, you can see our doorbell spook that yells at you and his tongue shoots out to touch your hand when you push the doorbell button. We also bought a fog machine, a candy bowl with a hand that is light activated and says, "Would You Like some Candy?" and then the hand grabs you when you reach for candy. Then there is the lightning disk that's sound activated, the hour-long spooky sounds CD and a whole bunch of other stuff we're going to set out for the fun-fest.