halloween is coming

there is a cemetery in my front yard.

this is our 4th annual haunted garage and halloween party, hosted by yours truly. (well, ours truly, now. i love you, my dot.)

the first year we put black tarp up on my garage walls so it would be pitch dark for the haunted house. the thought of putting up and taking down each year was more than i could bear. so we painted the walls the next year. lazy? no. creative!

we also built small wall frames and covered them with cardboard and then black tarp (leftover from first year's walls) that come apart and store in pieces. again, creative.

we have a huge black coffin with red innerds and lots of headstones with (you guessed it: creative) sayings on them that get scattered around my lawn. this year i told my dot we need to put the coffin up on something like bricks so i don't end up with coffin shaped dead grass.

the maze part goes up fairly quickly now. but the theme!.. the theme takes time to develop.

we rely on rody for the groundwork. he usually has the year after next planned before this year is over. and he's the genius behind the scares. he's also the artist.

my dot is our builder. he can build a coffin, for goodness' sake. (when i see the word sake, i think of japanese spirits.)

and kelly? he's kind of our resident drinker. heehee.

this year is well underway. i still need to find one, big prop that is integral to our whole theme. i'm hoping i can get to garage sales this weekend and then that they have what i'm looking for. as you can see i will discuss no details so as not to give anything away.

all this evasiveness makes me feel like an undercover agent.

i could tell you, but then..