The Think Tank

We finished up the majority of decorating for Halloween tonight.  There are still a few things to do, and a few things that broke and need replacing (seems like about everything), but with a lot of rain in the forecast I wanted to get a video shot to show folks what things look like this year.

I built/rebuilt several things this year:  A new obelisk tombstone (I’ve wanted an obelisk in the yard for many years), a tall statue with a clock that I named Kronos, and I completely rebuilt the shed/crypt at the back of the yard, complete with a new engraved top stone and some fancy columns patterned after some pretty creepy ones in a French church.

We also added some drainage stuff to the side yard to prevent the flooding issues we had last year, as well as new lights in the back, because why not?  It’s not like we’ve got anything else going on.  All told I’ve been working on this pretty much every day since August 3.  It took a whole lot longer than I anticipated (as usual), but now that it’s done I’m pretty excited.

There are still a few things left to finish, but for those of you who can’t make it by the house this year, this video should give you a good idea of what we did.

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We put up some cool new lights in the backyard, just in time for the Halloween season!   They’ll be very helpful for casting just enough light in the Ghoul Scouts for Halloween night, as well as being superb for parties, just throwing darts or cooking on the grill.  Plus they look cool!

Here is a time lapse video from Halloween night.  We had about 300-400 kids, and as the video says, we had help from a number of people which really made the night go a lot smoother.  Poor Shannon ran herself silly guiding groups back and forth all night.

All in all it was a great time and a lot of kids had a lot of fun.  I think that makes the night a resounding success.

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It’s All Hallow’s Eve eve and Crestfallen Manor is ready to roll for the big night.  I’ve been planning on shooting a video walk-through all season, and tonight I finally got to it.  For all of you who are not able to join us tomorrow night, hopefully this video will give you a taste of what is happening.

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I went out to Sylvans today to start getting my new PSE Xpression ready for the outdoor season. While I was there I bumped into Chris Kaman and Myers Leonard! For any of you who may not know, they are both centers for the Portland Trail Blazers. 

Both of them were really nice. I tried not to bother them while they were shooting, but we did talk about archery stuff for a while. Kaman has been shooting since he was a teenager, and This was Leonard’s second day.  

After they were done, they were nice enough to pose for a photo so I could make people jealous.