A Halloween Decoration Scared Me Today

[NJCher]

I was driving to school and it made me scream. I was really scared!

I've always laughed at Halloween decorations and never have I once been scared. This is the first time.

So I'm driving along and I see this pile of dirt on someone's lawn. I'm not thinking Halloween. I'm thinking "gardening," as this homeowner is putting in some bushes or a tree.

I have a one-track mind and it pretty much runs along the line of "gardening gardening gardening gardening."

Next I see this woman rise up out of the pile of dirt, and I'm thinking, "That is one bad-looking gardener." As in "unhealthy." Her face was all gray and wrinkled and she had messed up hair. Very atypical for the type of owner I would imagine for such a house, which was a large Tudor on a spacious lawn.

She was skinny and her clothes were hanging off her. I looked for her garden trowel but instead of a trowel, gray filmy stuff came from off the ends of her fingers and dripped down to the ground.

That's when I screamed.

Then I realized it was a Halloween decoration that some Halloween aficionado had rigged up. The "woman" was rising up out of the "grave" (pile of dirt) and the gray stuff was cobwebs. I don't know how they did such a good job of getting the woman to automatically rise up out of the "grave," but they did. As I continued on my way to school, in my rear view mirror I saw her descend again into the grave. It was all automatic, run off electricity, I would guess.

There was another graveside character, but I was so focused on the "gardener" that I didn't watch him much. I think it was a skeleton in a top hat. He managed to walk across a part of the lawn. I think he was carrying a martini glass.

Halloween decorations are really getting good these days!

I felt like a perfect fool!


Cher

[BanzaiBonnie]

1. So Halloween has ALWAYS been my favorite holiday

I went to the Goodwill today snooping around for cool, weird stuff to use for props and I found a cool little glass box with a mirrored bottom. The top is hinged. The edges are all connected by metal. A bit gothic looking maybe.




So, have you seen the Martha Stewart cookies that look like fingers with an almond for the fingernail: ladyfingers.



I'm going to put them in the little box and offer them to our trick-or-treaters. Ladyfingers anyone?

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. And thanks for sharing that NJ Cher

It sounds really cool.

[murielm99]

3. That is great!

There was one here that got my attention. It is a mobile Halloween decoration. Someone has a mock corpse's foot sticking out of the back door of their SUV. I did a double take when I saw it.

The foot is bare, and the leg is wearing dark pants.

[Sanity Claws]

4. Haha

Those decorations sound great.

I almost feel like driving out to NJ just to see them.
BTW, I think the skeleton with the martini glass belongs in Connecticut, not NJ.

[davsand]

5. We have a living Halloween Decoration.

Chaucer D. Cat is a great big black kitty that just loves everybody. If we are sitting outside (he's an indoor kitty only) he'll sit in the window and watch us while he pouts at being restrained from joining us.

Anyhow, every Halloween, it is our practice to sit out in the driveway with the candy for the kids and a few flashlights so we can show off our annual "Puking Punkin". Chaucer will sit up in the window all evening. I have white blinds and more often than not he'll sit between the blinds and the window. Being a black cat, it makes him look like he's back lit--like some kind of decoration. Looks kinda cool, really... well...until he MOVES, that is. They see my "decoration" stand up and move--or better yet jump down out of the window--and those kids take off running!

Happens EVERY year.



Laura

[MorningGlow]

6. OMG I can just picture that!

Totally understandable!

I love it when people go all out for Halloween! :D

I keep getting fooled by this decoration my mom bought me last year. It's a black cat, standing, its back arched. It doesn't look anything like a real cat (the "fur" is sparkly fer goodness sake), but because we have two real black kittehs, every time I catch that out of the corner of my eye, I think it's one of our furfaces. It's gonna be a long few weeks!

[NJCher]

7. Halloween Decoration Pics

I am laughing over the moving black cat decoration. I have two; maybe I can do something similar this year.

I know that three years ago at Halloween, when I was looking for a little black cat to adopt, I had a difficult time here. The animal shelters won't let black cats be adopted anytime around Halloween. I did get my two, but I had to go through an extensive interview process and a background check. So if you're going to have a "moving" decoration in NJ, plan in advance. :)

I wanted to post a couple photos of outstanding Halloween decorations that I took last year. This one was taken at the top of a mountain in Morris County. The house was up there pretty much all by itself. Beautiful contemporary house and they put this clever display out, which looks like it took some creativity and time:



I have to upload the other one.


Cher

[NJCher]

8. Another Halloween Decoration

Cher

[NJCher]

9. even something fairly simple like this

Cher