Oct. 1-10, 2010

I should have seen this coming. A Halloween countdown went up on Oct. 1 and decorations have steadily increased daily since then. Even today it's still not all that elaborate, but I suspect that will change once Columbus Day gets out of the way. Make sure you zoom in and read the individual tombstones. Some are fairly standard: Count Dracula, Wolf Man, Frankenstein...and then there's "Billy Bone", a monster I must admit I'm not familiar with. Incidentally, the dates on the tombstones seem to be arbitrary. I was kind of hoping it would be a clever nod to the publication dates of these books. Not even close. Also, who's Billy Bone? I googled the name. He's an English soccer player who spent most of his career in SE Asia. Not very spooky.

Look for more frequent updates on the Halloween display, but probably not on the level of Easter.

Sept. 24-30, 2010

Not much has changed over the past week. Halloween is still coming, and there have been a couple decorations added periodically during the week, but nothing to warrant a lot of excitement or attention. Columbus Day is still coming. This picture is from 9/30.

Sept. 22-23, 2010

Autumn Begins! Also, notice half the yard is occupied by American flags. I can only assume this is for an impending Columbus Day display. This picture was taken on the morning of the 23rd. It was taken pretty early, and the lack of any lettering on the American flag side made me suspect that things were not finished for the day. So I took a picture when I got home from work that night...

It's tough to see, but we've now made the transition to "Halloween Coming". Even harder to see is that the "Columbus Day Coming" signs have gone up in the American flag portion of the yard. Excellent.

Sept. 13-21, 2010

Autumn Coming! There's nothing particularly notable about this display, but I still feel the urge to point out how the yellow shamrock on the left is lighter than the one on the right. This is because of an incident over the summer which saw one of his yellow shamrocks destroyed, and a piece of it ending up on my lawn. Anyway, this is "Autumn Coming". I'll save the exciting stuff for the next post.