looking good laura! if i hadn't been to your house though, i'd wonder how the street could be so crooked compared to the very level house, or was it the other way that picture really shows the slope of your street.
Yeah, and my part isn't even that slopey.....I mean it is, but some parts are a lot worse.
I wish I had some front grass....it's hard to have curb appeal with just sidewalk. The house is built up on one heck of a tall foundation to meet the the sidewalk....most of the basement is above ground. Under the front porch we have a little storage room where we keep all of the decs.
If I had a front yard I'd have a LOT more decorations......
Yay, Halloween decorations! Loz, looks like I am going to have to enjoy yours. I usually have at least some corn stalks up at this point, but I am too behind now. Yours looks great!
Looks great Loz! I have seen pics of your house before and you have told me that you are right on the street but I don't think I have ever seen pics like this! You are right on the street!!!! Is it a busy road?
I love halloween, The unfortunate thing about living in the boonies, is no trick or treaters. I usually just do a few pumpkins and gourds. Sometimes I carve one. Our old house the neighborhood had young familys, and the first year we were there the kids were all 10 and under, many with there parents. So adorable. I had a blast that year! :wink:
ya know....I never even carved a pumpkin until I was in college???? it was just not something my fam did. we lived 'inner city'...and it got more so year after year. I did a bit of trick or treating but only to very select houses. halloween was never a big deal to me as a kid. I love it now! we carve pumpkins...hoping to do a halloween sleepover or party for the kidos this year instead of trick or treating. I'm not big into decorations though. I'm kinda funny about storing stuff, then dragging it out, dusting/cleaning it off for a month, then storing it back up. (cricket lazy, I guess) ha ha
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ya know....I never even carved a pumpkin until I was in college???? it was just not something my fam did. we lived 'inner city'...and it got more so year after year. I did a bit of trick or treating but only to very select houses. halloween was never a big deal to me as a kid. I love it now! we carve pumpkins...hoping to do a halloween sleepover or party for the kidos this year instead of trick or treating. I'm not big into decorations though. I'm kinda funny about storing stuff, then dragging it out, dusting/cleaning it off for a month, then storing it back up. (cricket lazy, I guess) ha ha
Cricket, thats how I feel about christmas decorating. The older I get the less I do. Its just me and My husband, and the cats. I put up the artificial tree so the cats can knock the balls off it!
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growing up halloween was quite the ything at my house----and in later tears mom would make popcorn balls. All of us kids (3) still go mom's for uor popcorn balls.--(and she has them) When i gotr married we moved to the country and in all the years we lived there (25) we had 1 trick ot treater.--But I would take the kids into town and take them around my MIL's neighborhood.--when they got older, we would go 2 nights--1 they went trick or treating and 1 they helped give out candy. it is hard to say which night they enjoyed more.
We moved into townm in dec of 2004--so now we get a few kids come---this was once an empty road and peopel are not used to there being houses here.
but yes I have always decorated for all holidays---and I enjoy it very much. At this new house, to my decorations, I have added a small garden flag out front---and I am loving it.
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growing up halloween was quite the ything at my house----and in later tears mom would make popcorn balls. All of us kids (3) still go mom's for uor popcorn balls.--(and she has them) When i gotr married we moved to the country and in all the years we lived there (25) we had 1 trick ot treater.--But I would take the kids into town and take them around my MIL's neighborhood.--when they got older, we would go 2 nights--1 they went trick or treating and 1 they helped give out candy. it is hard to say which night they enjoyed more.
We moved into townm in dec of 2004--so now we get a few kids come---this was once an empty road and peopel are not used to there being houses here.
but yes I have always decorated for all holidays---and I enjoy it very much. At this new house, to my decorations, I have added a small garden flag out front---and I am loving it.
Frog?? You carol?? No way! Now I must see a piccie of it! :wink:
Loz, so your house is up against a sidewalk? I thought it was an optical illusion. So you do all your planting in the back?
I saw a really cool pumpkin. Someone had taken a punch apple corer, punched out pieces of apples and gourds, then punched out pieces of a pumpkin and replaced the pumpkin spaces with the other punched out pieces. It looked like the pumpkin was polka dotted.
I used to when the kids were home--now a days I just put out a pumpkin and ghost in the living room and a lighted pumpkin and a small halloween garden flag, outside. I would have a fall wreath on the door, but it seems to have disapeared. But this year all I have up/out is the beautiful brown/gold pumpkin.
Ah I cannot wait for next year.................
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pumpkin is my favorite pie but I've never made it from a real pumpkin.
to make it from a 'real' pumpkin is not that much work. you can just, cut it in half or 4ths, but it inside down on a lipped cookie sheet and bake it in the oven. When it is soft, remove it form the oven, scoop out the cooked 'meat', from the skin-(which you discard?) and measure it in like kind for a recipe and there you are.
I am right, Barb ?
I was a small child the last time we did that. My grandmother brought a big goose-necked squash. We cooked 'her' up and made pies.
It was Thanksgiving Day. I think they boiled the squash instead of roasting, and as I remember the pie was not as 'solid' as a pie make from 'fake' pumpkin.
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I like it too, sheri ; you notice I said I had not done it since I was a small child, right?? (truth be told I did not do it then--I was just there--mom & grandma did all the work.
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I am starting to do alittle decorating for Halloween. I "got told" last year by a pre schooler that if there isn't any decs at a house they should not go to the door. I quit doing real pumpkins when I got my first cat. She's a knocker over anything kinda kid. so I decided to sit out front on my step in costume, with treats for the kids and dogs to,lol. I live about 2 blocks from a grade school. We get hammered with kids every year. I love to watch n see the teeny guys coming. Parents now walk their kids and they get all dressed up to, even the dogs have costumes,lol. I do like to dec the inside for Christmas. But for now. Pumpkins n scarecrows are the thing....Come Christmas, I'll ut up the cat/Christmas tree and find more to add to my decs... I call it that because it is not uncommon for one of them to be looking out the middle of it at me when I walk by. Have a great Halloween everyone!
I was NOT going to decorate at all this year. I just did NOT have the Halloween spirit , being that Amy is away at school now, and Brian is too old, and we are not close with any of the kids on the street. Plus the fact that we only had one handful of kids last year!!!
But... I went out to several stores earlier today - I wore some brigh orange hanging pumpkin earrings with a matching pin. :wink: In all the stores I went to, only 3 salespeople/cashiers had a costume on, and only 1 person remarked about my pumpkins. When that person did, I said I couldn't believe how no one is in the spirit this year. She replied that even the BIGTIME parade in Greenwich Village in NYC - which is world famous - is going to be much smaller this year because 2 of the biggest sponsors pulled out!!! Well that is very unfortunate, because Amy goes to school right down the street from where they do the parade and she is there right now as I type. I can't wait to hear what she has to say about it - first time for her in person.
So... it was a gorgeous day out today - about 60 degrees and sunny! While I was having my lunch out on the deck in the sun, after I returned home - very odd for the end of October - I decided that I HAD to put up at least a few of my decorations because the few kids who do actually come around should have some spirit in their lives, don't you think???
Here are my dollar store spiders on a sheppard's hook, and a plastic pumpkin that now has flashing lights in it.
One side of the front steps
Other side of the front steps
Flag in pot of Diane's spoon osteospermums on front porch near doors
We've had about 20 kids come around so far. More than last year, but not like the old days. And out of those 20, only 2 said thank you - what's up with that???
Oh, well... it will be on to Thanksgiving after tonight...
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