Random crap with Uno.

[Mylochka]

My favorite pumpkin picture so far this year...

[Geo]

The left one reminds me of UnO, the right one of Russia. 

[JarlWolf]

She's not cold looking enough. Looks more like a Cuban or Mexican 

[Geo]

She's not cold looking enough. Looks more like a Cuban or Mexican 

U tellin' me she ain't Roeska??? 

[JarlWolf]

The one on the pot had lots of jewelery, darker hair and looked more Latin in general.

U tellin' me she ain't Roeska??? 

See, she looks much more cold/imposing, so it fits the bill! 

[Unorthodox]

Day 1 before and after.

[Dio]

Day 1 before and after.

My thoughts on this are very simple: is coming up very soon.

[Unorthodox]

just a straight paste from H forum, so ignore anything that don't make sense. 

Had obligations this morning, and kids' parties this afternoon/evening, so not much done today.



Blatantly ripping off the cornstalk walls from jdubbya only slight modification on how I'm doing them as opposed to him.  Only about half up right now, but loving the tunnel vision they make right to the barghest.



Talia and Alec getting ready for the parties.  Tons of comments on Alec's makeup job as I blatantly skirt the 'no blood' policies. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Deadly Halloween tableau too realistic for some
Associated Press
By KRISTI EATON October 17, 2013 5:23 PM



Johnnie Mullins poses with his controversial Halloween display featuring headless dummies dressed in his work clothes at his home in Mustang, Okla, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. In the display, one dummy lies under a truck with blood splattered on the driveway, foreground, and another along the blood-stained garage door. Mullins' wife, Jennifer, said she got the idea for the macabre scene from the social media site Pinterest. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)



MUSTANG, Okla. (AP) — One man lies on his stomach on the driveway. Blood is splattered along the garage door that smashed his head and presumably killed him. Another man lies a few feet away, run over by a truck.

The scene in a middle-class Oklahoma neighborhood made of single-story homes and well-manicured lawns seems out of a horror story because, well, it is. The two accident victims are in fact dummies, created as part of a family's vivid Halloween display to shock and frighten.

And it certainly has. At least one woman has called 911 to report that a man's head had been shut into the garage door. Emergency personnel who responded discovered a dummy.

Jennifer Mullins, of Mustang, said she got the idea for the macabre scene from the social media site Pinterest and showed her husband, Johnnie, who was happy to scare up a display while he was on worker's compensation and unable to work. Using Johnnie's work clothes and blankets for stuffing, the couple first placed one life-sized dummy at the garage in early October and the next day, placed one next to the truck. A sign above the dummy in the garage door reads "you're next." The front yard is filled with spider webs, skeletons, crosses and RIP signs.

Mullins knew the ghastly display would raise some eyebrows, but she's surprised by just how much attention it's received, mainly online.



Johnnie Mullins poses with his controversial Halloween display


"People think we went too far, and you know, we're devil worshippers and we must not be Christian folk," the 32-year-old mother of two girls said. "They've said all kinds of stuff. But we're normal. We love Jesus. We celebrate Halloween."

As for the woman who called 911, Mullins called it "ridiculous" and said if it was her, she would have gotten out of her car to check on the person and then seen it was a dummy.

"Plus, I'd probably put two and two together, seeing the decorations in the front yard and then seeing the bodies and then think, 'Oh, it's Halloween,'" Mullins said.

A spokeswoman for the local police department said no crime has been committed because of the false-alarm 911 call.

Some of the Mullins' neighbors said that while the display initially created some spine-chilling moments for them, they aren't opposed to it.



Johnnie Mullins poses with his controversial Halloween display

Chris Wilson, 38, who lives a few houses down, said he was driving by on his motor scooter when he saw what he thought was the body of his neighbor collapsed under the weight of the garage door, blood trickling from his body. He grabbed his phone and ran over to the home, prepared to call for help. But then he realized the body was fake, made up of cloth and blankets.

"He got me," Wilson said with a chuckle.

http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-halloween-tableau-too-realistic-174630602.html

[Unorthodox]

So....Day 3...

YESTERDAY, the forecast for Monday was rain snow, and 10 mph wind.  That's doable easy enough...

NOW, that forecast is for 29mph wind.  Yeah....

So, here is the corn tunnel.   Quite possibly seen for the last time...





Mini lighing test, sorry, no tripod.  It LOOKS nice and dark, but it's quite manageable once you step down into it.  There is absolutely NO way I would have EVER gone into that as a kid.



The rest the day was spend hanging stuff into the trees. 



Still got tons of candles in glass jars to hang, but figured it's best to wait to do those till after the wind.



Oh, and that little minor task of moving those 100+ pumpkins into the garage so I can clean them out during this storm.

[Unorthodox]

Sitting here watching "scariest haunted attractions in america"...and it's a sad sight.  Startle scares on top of more startle scares...sad. 

[Unorthodox]

So, wind for today: predicted on Saturday: 10MPH, Predicted on Sunday: 30MPH. Predicted this morning: 50MPH

Actual recording by the neighbor's weatherbug right now: 65 MPH.

It's actually kinda funny to watch all those bones I tied into the tree FLY around.

I've done this enough, everything has been put into "storm" mode.  I can probably put the front back together in about 10 minutes, but that tunnel's going to take some time. 

[Geo]

Actual recording by the neighbor's weatherbug right now: 65 MPH.

That's a tiny bit harsher then we had today.
Had any rain with it?

[Unorthodox]

Not as much rain as I was expecting...

Neighbor across the street with a big grin:  "Looks like your halloween has been blown away." 
"Oh, I did all that so it wouldn't get damaged." 

[Unorthodox]

The yard is back from the dead (and twice as scary for it, right?)