Halloween 2009
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Here's the same witch on the broomstick that was new last year.  I put her in about the same spot as last year.  I turned her around to face the public sidewalk this year.  There was a good breeze blowing most of the afternoon so I anchored her by wiring one of her hands to a tree limb.

Here's the witches coven.  It's also about the same as last year with the exception of one new witch added this year.

Here's the same ghostly specter from last year.  I raised it a bit higher in the tree this year but I realized later that doing so put the motion sensor at just about its max range and sometimes it didn't detect the kids going by on the haunted sidewalk.  You can see how the breeze is blowing the white mesh.

Here's the garage lights with pumpkin windsocks placed over them.  You can tell how stiff the breeze was by looking at the Halloween flag blowing in it.

Here's a better view of the new "grave breaker."  I put him just inside the graveyard fence at the corner of the haunted sidewalk.

Here's a closer shot of the new Grim Reaper figure.  Along with the garden fence I bought for the graveyard, I also bought a gate section and put the Grim Reaper just inside it.  In addition to his head moving and speaking spooky phrases when someone walks by, his arms are also supposed to move.  Unfortunately, he was blown over 4-5 times over the afternoon and I think the impact with the sidewalk may have damaged the arm mechanism.  After he dries out and I'm ready to put him away, I'll check him and see if it's something I can fix.

The pumpkins I got this year weren't all that spectacular.  I always get them at Cox Farm in Centreville and they said that this year was not a very good year for pumpkins.  They had a small assortment or really big ones but they were all rather oddly shaped and none of them would stand up so I passed them by.  Both of the ones I got are about the same size.  This one is a bit more rounded and the other is a bit taller and thinner.  I used an idea from a magazine and made the eyes out of small squash gourds.  I cut the top half off them, hollowed them out, and pushed them into holes cut in the pumpkin.  The nose is the top half of one of the gourds.

Here's the taller, thinner one.  I made him into my annual pukin' pumpkin.

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