They create a false facade for their garage.
They decorate everywhere.
Everywhere!
The graveyard is huge and fanciful with timely comments on the gravestones. ("Bernie handles all my retirement income.")
they have volunteers stationed around to answer questions and guard the special effects. The volunteer is the one in the hat.
Every October they errect the crypt, which is the center of the audio/visual effects. At night, the fog machine kicks in. The bushes rustle ominously. Red eyes peer at you from the trees and the ground cover, then scuttle away. Groans and wails echo wierdly from distand corners of the property.
The mourner sobs gently but as persistantly as a 15 year old girl who has learned to use tears as a blunt weapon to get what she wants.
And the local highschool dance team comes by to perform "Thriller" for the admiring crowds. And believe me, there are CROWDS!
A local car club composed of hearse owners brings their prizes by to show them off.
The home-owners have a gorgeous glass-sided Victorian horse-drawn hearse. Those Victorians were really INTO death!
Y'all come back now, y'hear?
That looks like fun! We have neighbors who do up their yards but not quite to that effect.
ReplyDeleteFreaky!
ReplyDeleteAmazing - they most really love doing this.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty intense.
ReplyDeleteWow! We don't get that kind of dedication here, it's cool to see it still happens.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few houses in the area that do that sort of thing for Christmas...
Wow-- fun neighbors to have!
ReplyDeleteWow, those people REALLY know how to do up a holiday right. Endlessly amazing...
ReplyDeleteI pass by this house on the way to see my best friends daughter, who lives just down and around the corner from them! I can vouch for the traffic. I have yet to go there though! Maybe this year I will visit and walk from her house to there.
ReplyDeleteThey do go all out! Last year someone stole some of their decorations--how tacky is that!!!