Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Lets see your fall decorations!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
After 11 years of holding my Group's Halloween party--I am OD'd on decorations.....and preparations.....

It has now been about 3 years that i stopped having this extravaganza. I have a HUGE box of all kinds of decorations in my basement--and at least 3-under-bed boxes full of the straw scare-crows....witches...dolls...etc.

I really, really have some nice decorations in that big box! Every year i would add to them from the "After Halloween" ales. Used to put weird candelabras on all the tables---and hung bats from the ceiling--and had one of those flying bats just outside my front door--and that door-mat hidden under my rug that when you step on it--it shrieks!...cob-webs everywhere---black, cut out bats flying all over my walls---besides gauzy "clouds" and swords and whatever---all over the place....

I picked 5 judges (NOT in costume) and they chose the winners from 5 different categories...had great prizes.....
On the average--I always had about 30-35 people in attendance. ALL silly adults!
I, myself, always was in costume too.....
It was all pot-luck (well organized by Moi--of course) so no one ever went hungry.

GONE! All that is gone!!!!! NO more! The Group has not had a H-Party since! No one can match what I used to do.
They wouldn't have to--but no one has picked it up.

This is all I am doing this year!!! If I get 4 or 5 trick-or-treaters each year--that is about it! We now have an older neighborhood. People also do not take their kids out on the street all that much any more.

BOOOOOO----Gita