Mirkwood Porch
Oct. 30th, 2004 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jere7myNow that I have my very own porch, which is the presumed point of entry for trick-or-treaters, I decided to put the fear of God into the little blighters. Or, if not God, arachnids. I wrapped the whole thing in yards and yards of artificial cobwebs, and festooned the webs with tiny plastic spiders (n.b.: clusters are scarier than scattered individuals) and a pair of giant rubber spiders (one of which has an egg sac). To add to the spookiness, I replaced our porch light with a black light, turned on a strobe light in the kitchen to make the window and door flicker eerily, and hung a string of light-up skulls. The final touch was a particularly malevolent and fangèd jack-o-lantern.
During the night, the winds came.
45 mph gusts were quite enough to shred my webs to tatters, and tatter them to shreds. When I woke up today, the porch was pathetic, not enough to scare even the sniffliest of tykes. *sigh* Less devastating, the black light was...subtle, as K. put it.
Now I am armed with more webbing and a red light, which I will put up tonight after the winds die down, c. midnight. I'd've liked to have the decorations up this evening, since one day of Hallowe'en decor is a little silly, but at least it should be scary for the T.O.T.s (trick-or-treaters). And I'll be there in my long black cloak to hand out candy. Ooga booga.
During the night, the winds came.
45 mph gusts were quite enough to shred my webs to tatters, and tatter them to shreds. When I woke up today, the porch was pathetic, not enough to scare even the sniffliest of tykes. *sigh* Less devastating, the black light was...subtle, as K. put it.
Now I am armed with more webbing and a red light, which I will put up tonight after the winds die down, c. midnight. I'd've liked to have the decorations up this evening, since one day of Hallowe'en decor is a little silly, but at least it should be scary for the T.O.T.s (trick-or-treaters). And I'll be there in my long black cloak to hand out candy. Ooga booga.
