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It’s a Long, Hard Road…

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Here is one more picture of the yard. I am almost finished editing all of the pictures. They will be up tomorrow or friday hopefully. Good old MonTiki, one of my first props I ever made, a 6 ft tall sexy hunk of Dow Blue foam.

I was just looking at my google calendar for November. It’s mostly empty now. A few bills here, a couple holidays there, and eye exam follow up. It was a big relief.

Just for fun, here are the last three months. I have removed all the personal events so this is just prop making things I needed to do. Dark orange is for weeknight tasks, bright orange is for working in the garage at Patty’s house. Welcome to my nightmare! By the way, I had started way back in april but it was a casual thing. Those were easy days!

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Editing is Hard Work

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

I have been editing pictures for two days and I am almost done with the “Fancy” ones.

Here is one I like; a view of the yard from the street featuring FireBringer.

Next year I am going shot everything in sections and stitch it together into a giant high-res panorama. I would have done that this year, but I am not so sharp at 2:30am and I forgot.

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Nov. 1st

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Yes I know, I know, we said 2009 was the final year for Haunted Tiki Island, but all we needed was some sleep and a look at the pictures from the night before and we were all like yeah, yeah yeah!! Let’s do one more year!

However, by 11 am on November 1st we had all talked it out and decided we were just being nostalgic and we really were excited to do our haunted carnival theme for next year that we all agreed on two years ago.

So we spent yesterday cleaning it all up and throwing out stuff we aren’t going to use or can’t store.

Good bye paper mache bugs.

Good bye Lava Creep.

Good bye Volcano.

Sorry Cauldron Creep, we left you out overnight and the wind wrecked you.

Sorry Praying Mantis, but we need to put this prop away.

Sorry Moth, these webcaster webs actually work.

(Luckily this web has no spiders so he was still alive and got free and flew away when I pulled then webs down.)

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Halloween 2009!!!

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Halloween 2009 was a great night!!! We had 500-600 hundred people come thru. Luckily we had enough candy and treats on hand to get thru the ravenous hordes of Trick R Treaters. Quick thanks to Tricia’s Portland family who sent us a box full of halloween pencils, glow in the dark fangs, and spider rings to give out. That really helped spread out the fun.

As always thanks to Patty and Joe for letting us mess up their house again this year. Thanks to my fellow haunt builders and scare-actors. Thanks to all the Trick R Treaters who came by and had so many nice things to say. Thanks to Hauntforum.com for helping me to learn all this crazy stuff.

I am pouring thru hundreds of pictures and a lot of video. I will start posting those here in the next week so stay tuned. Haunted Tiki Island the yard haunt might be done, but Haunted Tiki Island the blog still has quite a bit more to see.

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