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I believe that if you don't scare at least a few of the kids enough
that they aren't willing to walk up and get candy, you haven't done
a proper Halloween decorating job. It's the spirit of the thing.

We scared a lot of kids.


Here you see the relatively complete production, but the experience
of walking through the yard is much more clear in the pic above.


This is how the yard looked most of the time, but taking pictures
through a fog bank doesn't yield much detail.

Thank you Mason for lending us the fog machine. It was a hit!


A bit earlier, before we had finished decorations. You can see a bit
more of the house and yard as it wasn't quite dark yet.

Notes: * we gave away an $60 of candy (costco prices at that) to an estimated   500 trick-or-treaters. * you should have seen some of our neighbors houses. the neighborhood   is quite the halloween destination. * everyone thought it took "a long time" to carve all the pumpkins. In   reality, we started carving around 4pm. With three of us working   together, it only took about an hour. People stress too much   about their pumpkin faces. * notice the knife in the head of the pumpkin on the left hand banister * also, notice the cyclops pumpkin at the left head of the path * The skulls took a _lot_ of effort. after exhuming several skeletons   from a nearby graveyard, only to find that someone had beaten us to   their skull, and coming to the difficult conclusion that we weren't   likely to find a pile of corpses lying around from which nobody would   miss the heads, we just made them out of paper mache - which literally   took *days* of effort. * you can't see the four large spiders in the web on the porch * that's chris' anatomical skeleton on the porch in front of the   glow-in-the-dark one caught in the spiders' web. * you can't see the strobes flashing behind the torn visquene on the   porch. * we received compliments on just about every element of our decorations,   but the best one we heard had to be "I drove by this afternoon,   and none of this was here!" =) * that's eve and jen on the porch in most pics. pat in one. none of   me =(