Thursday, October 31, 2024

Happy Halloween 2024

The windows mummy is no more this year, but I did get a neat black skeleton with lit eyes to hang on the front door tonight.  I also got a cheap purple spider web that I was hoping to cover from awning to bottom rail but it was way too windy to try and set that up, so it'll be put away for next year.  A flickering flame porch light and a couple squat pumpkins would round out our Halloween look this year.

I had a good day with some Halloween celebrations at work, then getting ready for trick-or-treaters at home.  We'd had great weather the last few days.  I was even able to wear shorts and sandals out and about the last couple days, but today was to be different.

It had been windy recently with a couple nice warm days, but today was more windy, sustained winds 15-20 mph with gusts that can stop you in your tracks.  Thankfully that's easing off a bit tonight, but we've also gotten so much colder with this front coming in.  By morning we'll be near freezing with barely a breeze.  

Despite the weather, we had a few more trick-or-treaters than last year, but still only 14 by my count.  We shut it down before 8 tonight, more than a half hour since the last ones.  Gave out less than half of the candy we had, so now we have that problem, too.  Happy Halloween, everyone.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That skellingotn is much less scaray than the mummy from previous years. Thankfully! Glad you had a good time.

- BW

Anonymous said...

That purple door is fab!

- BW

delcatto said...

Missing the Mummy, that was really cool. The Skeletons eyes are good. I hope you had a good evening and enjoy the sweets!

Scoakat said...

Thank you. I figured the black against the purple would look good. Yes, I thought it would be easier to replace the mummy but couldn't find anything big enough to cover the front window.