Putting the weeds to work for Us

[Unorthodox]

Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too. 


Oooo, or use those uprights to support a facade and place a FCG inside.  (flying crank ghost, pretty standard haunted house/disney mechanism, do not google if you don't like behind the scenes.)

Heck, with the tree you could do an axworthy justice.  (again, don't google if you don't like behind the scenes stuff)

oh, or make fire pits out of those planters and a big temple setup...

A couple pallets and we could make a KILLER witch's hut out of that too....

etc.

 

[Valka]

15 CELSIUS?! That's pathetic 


That's a nice day in SPRING over here!
 

Here, too (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada).

... Fall temperature/season over here can end in October. Winter unofficially starts by October and snow begins falling then, frost usually comes before it in the final portions of October.

We had crazy weather in this part of the world back in 1986. A sudden unexpected blizzard with LOTS of snow shut the city down for 3 days... on May 29. My dad made it to the hardware store to get propane for our camp stove (electricity was out), and he said the clerks were wearing battery-operated miners' helmets so they could see, and writing the purchases down with pen and paper - the tills weren't working. After that it was impossible to go anywhere, so we got out the candles, quilts (the furnace decided to quit, too), had hot meals made on a camp stove, and I shook my head at all the people who were unprepared for such a thing. Personally, I spent most of those 3 days tucked up in bed with my cat, under every blanket I owned. She had all 4 feet tucked under my chin, and we slept the time away. There were still huge snowdrifts around the city a week later.

Later that year I joined the Society for Creative Anachronism (a medieval recreation group) and was bemused at the other people in the Shire who froze out of their Labor Day weekend camping trip because it was snowing (I hadn't gone).

So for me, 1986 was the year I clearly remember when the weather in this part of the country went absolutely screwy and every year we have to wonder what's going on with the Pacific Ocean currents, because what happens near Hawaii can mean the difference between a warm winter and a normal one, or how frequently we get chinooks...

We usually get our first snow in October, although that one rarely stays. The real winter snow usually comes by mid-November, although one year it was nearly Christmas and we were wondering where the snow was...

To show my one track mind, can't help but thinking what a wonderful place for a pumpkin patch.

Complete with a "Welcome, Great Pumpkin" sign and a beagle flying his World War I plane that for some odd reason is in the shape of a dog house? 

Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too.

It'd need wrought-iron fencing instead of wood, but otherwise it'd be perfect. 

[Unorthodox]

Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too.

It'd need wrought-iron fencing instead of wood, but otherwise it'd be perfect. 

Nah, you backlight from the wood fence, wouldn't even notice it, and build a fake wrought iron one out of PVC there at the 'gate'.  The vineage would even work to your advantage here. 

[JarlWolf]

Mhm... part of the reason why my area is so bad Valka is just more of occasional government not tending to the roads. When the Socialist parties are elected here things are actually maintained....(to an extent) but when they aren't and United Russia party scams its way into the polls like they normally do, things get just to the levels of goofy in terms of maintenance...

Edit: Just so you people know, I live in whats called the Red Belt (meaning New Socialist or more often, Communist party majority), just on the fringe of it. Things are fine most of the time, but im on the fringe of it and the ruling party in my country, United Russia (Which is a nationalist agenda party), often tries to take over seats in government as much as they can. I've seen enough "re-casted" votes to make me vomit.

Edit2: Though, all the parties are relative jokes.

[Mylochka]

Could make a pretty marvelous graveyard scene there too. 


Oooo, or use those uprights to support a facade and place a FCG inside.  (flying crank ghost, pretty standard haunted house/disney mechanism, do not google if you don't like behind the scenes.)

Heck, with the tree you could do an axworthy justice.  (again, don't google if you don't like behind the scenes stuff)

oh, or make fire pits out of those planters and a big temple setup...

A couple pallets and we could make a KILLER witch's hut out of that too....

etc.

I used to have Halloween parties for my students at my old house.  It was a tiny little rental property that had a HUGE backyard.  I used to set up the "Doggie Trail of Terror" every year which actually only consisted of a series of stations with candle-illuminated signs describing circumstances designed to send chills down my pupils' spines; such as "Dr. Allison is grading YOUR PAPER right now... and has already run out of ink in his SECOND red pen!!!"  The screams could be quite blood-curdling...

[Buster's Uncle]

I miss the huge backyard and the parties...

[Geo]

I used to have Halloween parties for my students at my old house.  It was a tiny little rental property that had a HUGE backyard.  I used to set up the "Doggie Trail of Terror" every year which actually only consisted of a series of stations with candle-illuminated signs describing circumstances designed to send chills down my pupils' spines; such as "Dr. Allison is grading YOUR PAPER right now... and has already run out of ink in his SECOND red pen!!!"  The screams could be quite blood-curdling...

 
What were you pupils' age, to be so easily distressed?

[Unorthodox]

One of the best childhood memories I have of Halloween is from one of my teachers.  Simple thing, really, the man was a STORY TELLER.  Something of a lost art, these days, the ability to tell stories.  Anyway, I don't remember the story exactly, but it was quite detailed, about his childhood, and as a good liar, he incorporated many truths into the tale as it went on, culminating in him being chased by a man with a limp he somehow could not outrun.  He began climbing into a window in his house when "He started pulling on my leg, just as I'm pulling yours." 

BOOOO, hisss goes most the class...I was laughing heartily, he'd gotten us all.   

[ariete]

@valka i remember the 2003 blackout in toronto, paradoxically the same year when in summer in italy were registate temperatures exponentials (high humidity expecially in the cities intensified the perception of heat, so if there are 38° C you feel 48° C) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave#Italy

[Valka]

Heat like that would probably kill me, unless I could find a cooler to stay in for the duration.

I'm a cool-weather person. In summer, my comfort zone is about 15C to 20C and any more than that is too much.

It's finally getting around to the time of year when I can be comfortable outside - a cool, invigorating nip in the air in the morning, and a pleasant rest of the day.

[JarlWolf]

Worst heat I've ever experienced was east of Herat, Afghanistan. We were on a patrol and there was reports of enemy gangs doing something on the roads, most likely planting roadside demolitions to kill one of our patrols. Regardless, we were driving and then proceeded to the area, and the sun was scorching hot, the temperature was at least 40 degree's Celsius (It was probably more, probably approaching the 50 mark, note I've experienced hotter... but this was probably the worst for a few reasons you'll find out.). And this was dry skin cracking heat, no moisture at all: we did manage to apprehend a small gang of Mujahideen and promptly detained/dealt with them, but as we were driving back, sweating like buckets, the wind picked up and then we had a huge dust storm driving the way back with 3 bruised up, angry, cuffed Mujahideen cut throats in the vehicle with us. When it's hot, and there is scorching, gritty sand and rock flying about with near zero visibility AND you have 3 men who want to see your head on a sharpened pole in the same vehicle with you.... it was not only scorching outside, it was heated inside 

[Geo]

post seems to be eaten due to irregular internet connection. 

[Dio]

Where I live, it often gets above 35 degrees celsius (95 degrees fahreinheit) during the summer. However, it rarely gets below 16 degrees celsius (~60 degrees fahreinheit) during the winter. It also very dry and we rarely recieve precipitation at any time of the year except winter. Also, it tends to get very windy and dry during the late summer and early fall (September, October and November). During the Summer and Fall, we have a lot of fires in our area. These factors tend to make my area look dirty and muted. Especially if we get ash falling which lowers our air quality even more than normal.

[Buster's Uncle]

I used to have Halloween parties for my students at my old house.  It was a tiny little rental property that had a HUGE backyard.  I used to set up the "Doggie Trail of Terror" every year which actually only consisted of a series of stations with candle-illuminated signs describing circumstances designed to send chills down my pupils' spines; such as "Dr. Allison is grading YOUR PAPER right now... and has already run out of ink in his SECOND red pen!!!"  The screams could be quite blood-curdling...

 
What were you pupils' age, to be so easily distressed?

Mostly grads in their mid 20s.  You don't know Dr. Allison.

[Geo]

Mostly grads in their mid 20s.  You don't know Dr. Allison.

Oh boy!