Random crap with Uno.

[Buster's Uncle]

You want mud?

[Unorthodox]

YES.  Much easier to drive stakes into.

[Buster's Uncle]

Not if you've been vaporized by lasers as part of the international spaceflight community...

Much easier for the stakes to pull out, too, and the the foot-traffic damage to the yard is exasterbated.  I find this surprising.

[Unorthodox]

It'll all dry by Halloween night.  So, mud now is good.  The boardwalk is the damage prevention anyway.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's asking the universe for perfect timing, which you know better than to do.

[Unorthodox]

Universe, black magic, whatever works. 

[Unorthodox]

Uno goes cutesy:

Here's the setup prior to a pile of hyper girls descended upon the house. 






Just wanted to point out a bit of nostalgia here.  I made this table cloth when I was a teenager.  More of a wall panel at the time, but it still finds uses.



Just before party time.



Of course, what do you think caught their attention first?  Hallowindow V's skull bounce, of course.

http://youtu.be/OONpicisFdA

Making hats.



Making cookies.



Some of the hats.



And of course spellcasting

http://youtu.be/_G8PwEb7mo4

[Buster's Uncle]

That there's some sucessful Uno cute.  One imagines the girls' parents might freak at the spell thing, but I guess they knew whose house this was at.  Getting one over on Thalia is good - even at her age, she's about seen it all.

I suppose the tablecloth was scribbled-with-wax before-you-dyed-it deal?

[Unorthodox]

No, that's some fluorescent paint, it was part of a "dot room" I built for a professional haunt I did way back when. 

In case you're unfamiliar with the dot room concept:

http://youtu.be/PVH2CWazldY

[Buster's Uncle]

Silly me.  I should have spotted that it was black light stuff.

[Unorthodox]

So, this morning...



Kinda put a damper on doing a whole lot, so we focused on getting what shopping we had left to do for the upcoming party. 

This afternoon, most the snow was gone, though, and we got the place mostly wired, so we're ready to start throwing stuff up tomorrow. 

Also got the gate set.



I think Indy has the right idea, stealing my jacket...

[Buster's Uncle]

That IS a fine-looking mountain in the first pic.

[Unorthodox]

Better than a hill.   

(old camera test)
front door 30 MM:



300 MM



600 MM

[Buster's Uncle]

They look majestic and all, and attractive with a little snow on, but I wouldn't swap the tree-covered living beauties in sight of my house for the whole range.

[Unorthodox]

Well, TALIA put up the graveyard today.  Bossing me around, telling me to cut the stakes down ("We don't want them to see it's just a stick putting them up") and where to put everything. 

~70% completed with the yard.