2011 Yard Haunt Pics

The complete set of pictures from this year's Halloween yard haunt are up on our website: http://www.hauntedeve.com/Haunted2011.htm
The theme for this year was "The Grim Reaper".

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! It's been a busy couple of days. Saturday we cleaned and carved pumpkins. Set up the display yesterday afternoon and then took photos last night and tweaked a few things today. Getting a better handle on how to go about decorating the new place. Going to be cold tonight, but it's dry for a change. Actually will be able to run the fog machine tonight for a change! Hoping for a lot of trick-or-treaters tonight. Here's a teaser pic of tonight's Halloween display.

Canandaigua Pumpkin Walk 2011

This was our second year attending the Ontario Pathways Pumpkin Walk in Canandaigua. There's something magical about walking along a dark wooded trail lined with hundreds of jack-o'-lanterns. There were so many great carvings. We took pictures of some of our favorites which can be seen on our Haunted Eve website: http://www.hauntedeve.com/Pumpkinwalk2011.htm

Halloween Window

Halloween 2011: Grim Reaper Theme



This year's theme will be all about the Grim Reaper. So expect to see old Grim and his nefarious cloaked cohorts abound for the 2011 yard haunt! We're going to try to work more with the new house's layout and structure this time around. Last year we tried to force the old haunt layout on the new space and weren't thrilled with the results. We've added some new props and will be tweaking some old ones and hope to get some awesome photos this Halloween!

New Prop Ordered!

A new prop for this year's yard haunt.


Animated Gatekeeper from Spirithalloween.com



Halloween 2011 Just Around The Corner

Only 52 days until Halloween and so far we've done zilch regarding preparations this year. Uh-oh! We'll be sitting down and working out what we want to do with this year's haunt regarding props and decorations soon! Got to come up with some fresh ideas and get some stuff ordered! There are a few new items out there that have caught our eye: http://www.grandinroad.com/halloween-haven/
The attempt at growing some giant pumpkins this year wasn't all that impressive. Out of approximately 6 vines, we have one usable pumpkin that is currently slightly bigger than a basketball. Having a lot of landscape work at our new place this summer meant that we didn't have the time to do much more than throw some seeds into our left over tree planting dirt pile and water the vines that grew. Next year we'll put some more effort into growing them.