Haunt Side Hustle

The east side of our garage is basically "out of sight, out of mind" and is not typically part of the Halloween night yard haunt, but we're trying to remedy that. We're not big fans of our fake plastic jack-o'-lantern that we purchased many years ago. We are currently waiting for some battery powered lighted accessories for our skeletons to arrive any day now so that we can retire that plastic jack-o'-lantern for good.

RMSC After Dark Halloween 2026

We attended the Rochester Museum & Science Center's After Dark "Mad Science" Halloween event this past Saturday. It was a lot of fun!

Local Area Haunts 2026 Part 4

Halloween 2026 Pumpkins

We purchased our pumpkins for carving jack-o'-lanterns for our 2026 Halloween haunt today. $100 total for 14 pumpkins, all from one local roadside farm stand. We paid $15/each for 3 really big pumpkins (they're really heavy) and $5/each for the 11 medium-large pumpkins. Taking the current price of fuel and overall inflation into consideration, this was a bargain! We've been holding off on buying pumpkins until mid to late October for the past several years because we typically lose a few to rot when we used to buy them at the beginning of October. We inspected all of these to make sure there were no apparent soft spots or bruises. Anyone who has ever cut into a pumpkin that's starting to turn knows what is found inside can be rather noxious! The goal is to have at least 12 jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween night.

 

Local Area Haunts 2026 Part 3

Yard Haunt Props Are Ascending From Our Basement

With Halloween only a few weeks away, we've started moving our heavier wood built props out of our basement and into our garage. This summer we finally got around to getting a 10' x 14' shed with 7' walls and tall Cape Cod style peaked roof in our back yard. Other than mannequins, masks, costumes, and our more fragile props, all the heavier wood built props will be stored in the shed from here on out. No more moving bulky heavy Halloween props up and down our "treacherous staircase". The shed will also house a lot of yard tools and items that took up floor space in our garage, it's not just for Halloween prop storage. We got our custom designed shed from Backyard Outfitters, but here's a shed article regarding "Spooky Storage".

Powers Farm Market, Pittsford NY