halloween "decorating"

[orleans]

Last edited Sun Oct 22, 2023, 12:00 AM - Edit history (1)

i loved decorating for halloween. i'd start fixing the yard on the first of october. there was a lot to it and it took about a week to get it completed with all the little finishing touches. and if i found something cool in a store i'd add it to the displays. i some of those blow molds of pumpkins and witches, big bubbling cauldrons, fog machines, sound effects, black picket fencing, spot lights and strings of halloween lights along the fences and entangled in bushes, and a wonderful cemetery with towering shepherd hooks marking the entrance. the yard was spooky and enchanting. i never put out anything that was considered gore.

some parents told me their kids loved walking to school and looking for something new in the yard or cemetery that i added.

i was the cool halloween house in the neighborhood. people would drive to my house to trick or treat and see the displays. the neighbor kids had dinner in the cemetery (their parents would come over, bring pot luck dishes in my dining room, the kids would go outside and eat in the cemetery and the adults would hang out for awhile in the house)

i miss those days a lot. i had to sell my house (after having grown up there and having been there for a million years). i sold or gave away nearly all those decorations; kept a few but don't put them out. i'm in a condo so i could only put them on the patio and it's enclosed by bushes so no one would see them anyway. and there hasn't been a single trick or treater here since i moved in.

talk about an end to an era. it was a fucking abrupt end.

anyway, i was just going to post this meme b/c i thought it was funny. i really had no intention of launching into all this.

[Scrivener7]

1. At least enjoy the fact that you gave a lot of joy and thrill to a lot of people for all those years.

PS: When I felt I was not getting enough Halloween joy, I instituted an annual pumpkin carving party for my nieces and nephews. We eat junk food and carve.

I started when they were really little. Now they range in age from 18 to 40 and they still get anxious and call me if I haven't scheduled it by Oct 1 to make sure they won't miss it. It's one of my favorite things.

[a kennedy]

2. 😂 🤣 😂

[Niagara]

3. Thank you for sharing your Halloween decorating story with us.

I love decorating for Halloween. It's totally my jam.



🎃 Happy Halloween, orleans! 👻

[orleans]

4. thanks for taking the time to read it

happy halloween to you too, niagara!