2/4/2007 - Just now getting back to H-ween!

The holiday season hijacked my life...  I just got all the digicam pics downloaded and edited, so I'll post a few of them here.  I removed a lot of the "how to" pics of the 06 tombstones from the Halloweengallery folder to make room there for new stuff, so don't go looking there!

We had about 140 TOTs this year, up from about 50 in 05.  The weather was PERFECT, and the TOTs fairly polite and well-behaved.  Some of my cobbled-together oscillating fan-driven animations failed, but the chipcorder sound effects worked well.  The fogger & chiller worked like a champ, and our quadrophonic sound system performed well.  The big hit was the dancing ghost circle in the garage.  People just stopped and stared at them, especially teens and adults! 

My plans for this year include a proper cemetery fence for security and ambiance, a couple of new gravestones, additions to the ghost circle's set (2 trees, a water feature, painted backdrop), a bigger and more potent chiller, an overhead projector with a cemetery scene, and a few other things that I'm sure I haven't thought of yet!  I'm about to make my first Halloween 07 purchase: 200 or so feet of 2" black chain for my cemetery fence.  Woohoo!