Halloween 2010

My evil eye pumpkin did not make it to Halloween.  The warm weather brought on decay.  Unfortunately it didn't make the eye look more evil, just droopy.  Thanks to Crabby, I had more to choose from.

It was time to slice up a couple more squash.  I like to cut the bottoms out instead of the top.  I find it easier to clean them and get to the candle if necessary.  I get my patterns online.

You can see in the top picture I don't use candles much any more.  I put a couple glow sticks in to make an  eerie, green glow.  I did them that day so there was no time to do anything fancy.  Evil grinning faces are great for this holiday.

I added a few other decorations and thought I was ready.  Crabby came over to help out because she doesn't get many kids in her neighborhood these days.  Last year, about 30 showed up so I prepared for that many and had extra candy.  Thank the Great Pumpkin I had extra because 52 kids showed up at my door!  I know I don't have that many breeders in my hood so these must have been bused in.  This beast got to do some scaring (not scarring) when he heard one little girl walking up to the door saying "it's ok, nothing is jumping out."  Who can resist that?  She screamed when I jumped out but didn't run away.  The smell of candy kept her feet planted.  It was a good night.