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Halloween is a favorite holiday with us. We enjoy decorating the house and yard for the neighbors' to enjoy. (As you who know us already know, with us, our battle cry has always been "Its not worth DOING unless we OVERDO it!!!" We only started decorating the house after our move from Los Angeles to the Seattle area in 1994. And of course, one of our annual "must do's" is the Halloween Party. If we had known they'd be this much fun, both for our guests and for us to plan and carry out, we would have started the tradition before the move north. I guess its just that it was kind of hard to get excited about the prospect of putting on a hot, heavy costume and mask in L.A., where temperatures in the 80's are still the norm in October. Late October seems more "Halloween-y" up here. There's a definite chill in the air as the wind-whipped leaves pirouette down the street. The local farm stands are stacked with pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn and cornstalks. Scarecrows appear on several porches around us, as do bats in some windows and ghosts in a few trees. The 1995 Halloween Party was the impetus for my creating my first website. It started as somewhere to keep everyone informed about the party and give everyone a few previews of what was to come. In 1999, we began referring to our house, in its Halloween guise, as Crestfallen Manor. In 2000 we added Weedhaven Cemetery to the front yard, along with some other ghoulish delights. Mike even wrote a nifty little poem about it. That and pictures will be added to the site shortly. Plans are underway for our Halloween Haunt 2006. We haven't decided on a theme, although we keep finding these weird seed pods around the house and yard. They have a label from some farm in Santa Mira, CA. But we still can't figure why they keep turning up but perhaps a jungle theme or greenhouse theme. . . And friends were in New Cayama, CA on vacation this year and said they'd never seen so many spiders - and the box they send back was all full of spider webs... The following pages may take a little bit to download due to the images and other surprises, but I think you'll find its well worth the time. So if you'd like to take the tour, come on along. The admission is free and it looks like we've got opening right now. But you better hurry - people are just DYING to get in. So . . . you can continue on to Halloween Central or you can wimp out and run back to the safety of our home page or hit some other Halloween websites you might find fun or interesting or take a look at some photos from Halloweens past - Its time to name your poison! And remember, there are only
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