A Halloween Night Mini Display

I had to have SOMETHING in the yard on Halloween night! After Sunday's trick-or-treat, we took most of the display down in anticipation of Wednesday's heavy rain and wind. So yesterday, I went out and set up a small display, if for no other reason than to appease the Candy Corn gods. And maybe for one more night of Halloween enjoyment for myself, too...

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The Wreck Of Highbury Cemetery

I had been riding a wave of good luck and fortune throughout this Halloween season... and unfortunately that luck just ran out.

Our neighborhood trick-or-treat was Sunday night, but I wanted to keep the display up and running through Halloween night to keep the spooky orange-and-black vibes going. My plan was to run the full show on Halloween night, just as a worthy sendoff to another incredible season (even if nobody else would see it, I could bask in the glow of my hard work one more time this year). I decided to go to work on Halloween, blasphemous I know. And that's when I got the call...

The winds had REALLY picked up and had started to devastate the display. I cut out at lunch and headed home to assess the damage. By the time I got home, it was too late. Tombstones were blown from their mounts, my 12 ft. skeleton had almost completely blown over due to a break in the metal frame base, and worst of all, my entire arch entryway had blown over, snapping the arched sign in half and heavily damaging one of the pillars. Gah, my heart sunk.

With the help of Mrs. Highbury, we quickly pulled in the damaged pieces and then pulled in anything else that could have been the next victim of the whipping winds. Suffice to say that Halloween did not end the way I had hoped, but in a rare glimmer of optimism, I took stock of everything and quickly realized that all of the pieces could be repaired and will be used again in next year's display. I'll definitely have my work cut out, but it will fuel the determination for 2025.

So Halloween ends on a sour note, but overall it was another jam-packed amazing season. I'll keep riding this high for another couple of weeks, and I still have quite a bit to share. So let's keep this thing going for a bit. Check back tomorrow for more post-Halloween Halloween fun.

Only 364 more days to go. Are you ready?

  

A Quick Weather Update

As I've come to expect, the forecast for Halloween night continues to change every hour. We're still looking good for the big night here at the Cemetery, but that forecast for rain on the 1st has me a bit nervous. I'm REALLY hoping it doesn't creep up any closer...

Please, O Great Candy Corn Gods. Grant us all a night that is bountiful in dryness and chill...

  

The Freeze - "Halloween Night"

So I spent the day working on a new Halloween display prop for a big upcoming announcement (wink, wink), and I was listening to my old Highbury's Halloween Punkcast Series (which happen to still be available here!), when The Freeze's song, Halloween Night, came on. I stopped to listen to it, remembering what an awesome track it still is today, some 35 years later. Total timeless punk rock!