Best Scary House Evah!

A local family has alot of fun with Halloween. We love this house. They just do it for fun so no admission. We love it. We only go in the daytime because it's a little intense at night with the lights and sounds and such. So I am going to share some pictures.

Scary Clown!

The Vampires

The Gravedigger

Skeleton Chandelier



The Entrance

They have a website with more pictures if you want to check it out:

http://www.deadsendyardhaunt.com/index.htm

More

It seems that I can only post 5 pictures per post so the next few posts are all pictures.

Scary Pumpkin Guys

This is the one that really scares SP - he has a few issues with werewolves

More scary clowns. The guy running the place told me the clowns scare him, but they have had so many requests that they added it this year.

The Creepshow!

A few more

Wraith

Bog People

Pumpkin Head

Medical Anatomically Correct Skeleton (they couldn't tell me which gender it was though.)



Pumpkin Spider

More Scary

The Welcome Party

Jack of the Lantern

The Vampires Again


Kill the Vampires!



And The Reaper

More Evidence

I have the dubious privilege of presenting further evidence of the wretched nature of those honored denizens of hell otherwise known as SPIDER. The following is a converstion that took place between a friend and my neighbor's husband. You see, this friend, my neighbor (who is also a friend but, in the interests of clarity, shall be known as neighbor for the duration of this post) and I have been going to play volleyball on Tuesdays nights. Because I have mad skillz at volleyball. Almost as good as my bow staff skillz!

But I digress - back to the story.

So my friend stops by to pick me up for volleyball and since I'm having trouble finding my socks, she goes to the neighbor's house to see if she wants to ride with us as well. But she had already gone. What follows is the conversation that followed between my friend and the neighbor's husband (to the best of my recollection):

FRIEND: You have a really big spider next to your door. You should kill it.
NEIGHBOR'S HUSBAND: (looks at spider in question) No, you should kill it.
FRIEND: Uhh, no. It's really big. I don't want to kill it.
NEIGHBOR'S HUSBAND: It's huge! I don't want to kill it either.
FRIEND: Umm, I have to go now.

When this conversation was relayed to me, my friend was unsure of the survival status of the spider. Being concerned for the welfare of the neighborhood, I snuck over later to see whether the spider was still living. What I saw there caused me to shrink in horror. The spider was obviously dead. What was also obivous was that my friend had not exaggerated the size of the spider.

The remains of the spider was still on the wall next to the door. I have attached a picture below. In an act of supreme bravery, I got close enough to place a regular size business card (3.5"x2") next to the spider remains in order to put the size of this beast in perspective for you. I hope you all appreciate the sacrifices I make in keeping you informed of these menaces.

Shelob

UPDATED!!!

My husband decided to get ambitious and clean out the cooler that has been sitting on the back porch. Thankfully, this action may have saved our lives, our very existences!

It seems that one of Satan's spawn had taken refuge under the lid. This creature of darkest night, this being of unimaginable vileness, this fiendish abomination had established for itself a base with the undeniable intent of infiltrating my house -MY HOUSE! - with its nefarious offspring.

Imagine my horror, as the man whose preferred method of dealing with these eight-legged beasts is to squish them with his thumb (yes, he ACTUALLY touches them!), screamed with fright! as this monster attempted to protect its illegally occupied territory! Overcoming his natural aversion and terror of such an evil creature, he killed the brute in an incredible act of courage.

I hesitate to post the pictures that I bravely took. I worry that the sheer gruesomeness of these pictures will exceed the PG limit that I have for this blog. However, I also believe strongly that one must know one's enemies and so it is in the interest of public awareness that I publish these pictures.

This is the spider after it had been vanquished. IT'S HUGE! That's a regular-sized paper towel. If I had more courage, I would have gotten closer and had a better picture so that you could see all the little spiky hairs that covered it's body and legs.

This is a picture of the egg-sac. Obviously this thing was not fooling around. I'm pretty sure it's goal was world domination!

P.S. If you happen to know the name of this spider, please tell!

UPDATE: It seems that this particular breed of evil is known as a cat-faced orb weaver. I'm not going to mention names, but the person who mentioned to me that her husband used to play with these spiders as a child should see about counseling for said husband.

More Pictures

Here's a few more:

SP thinks we need to hike to this cave on our next excursion:

Here's my little trailleader. He was a bit put out with NT and me because we were slowing him down. Unfortunately, NT only had on flip-flops so it was a bit difficult for him to climb up the hill.

Adventures

We decided to go on a little outing after SP got out of school last week. So we drove up to the canyon and did a little exploring. Here you can see SP and NT crossing the creek. NT was NOT happy about the cold water but SP was insistent that we cross over and hike the trail he saw on the other side.



Most of these are me playing with my camera, trying to figure out how it works and take a decent picture. I really wanted to get some good pictures on the fall foliage.

Here's a picture of the valley:

Liquid Hot Magma

As we drove SP home from school the other day, he suddenly shouted out, "Mom! Lava! Up on the mountain!" I look up and there is all sorts of reds and yellows up on the mountainside. What you see above is my attempt to take a picture of what we saw.

It seems that fall has come.