[Stingy Jack]

Just decorated the house for Halloween yesterday. I was worried that we were starting a little too early, but when we saw people driving by and ogling our handiwork, I was glad we started. People, I think, aren't saying: "Look that those idiots! They're already decorated for Halloween", but are saying "Look! They've decorated! Let's put ours up, too!" instead. But, I'll have to drive around and see if we've actually started off the decorating for the community this year.

Anyway, we have green slime lights, and orange and purple lights across the eaves and around the columns in the front of our house. We have a graveyard, with a guy coming up out of the ground (he lights up, too ... a ghostly blue color that fades in and out) and his tombstone (which lights up as well). We have a row of Jack-o-Lantern spike-lights going across the right front of the house and "Warning: This House is Haunted!" security tape x-ed across the two main windows. We have an assortment of ghoulish monsters hanging from the eaves, that jelly-like fake blood I wrote about earlier dripping from the top of my office window, and "blinking eye" lights in the main front windows. We have a door panel for our glass door (which is a traditional Halloween-looking thing with black cats, witches and skeletons), and a big, inflatable black cat sitting behind a jack-o-lantern (one of those nylon things that self-inflates). We also have a variety of window decorations (light up pumpkins, spiders, and owls) and those "Haunted Wind Chimes" you can get at Wal-Mart (which are really fun).

Phew!

Maybe I should just post a picture of the decor when I get the film developed.

Hey! We should make that a contest. "Post your Halloween Decorations" and we all vote on who's is the best! Sound good?