This is the closest that we got to a Halloween decoration, unless you count my gesture of putting a skeletal black and grey flamingo into a flower pot at the front of the house. The flamingo would have been a little more convincing as a decoration if I hadn't mislaid its legs. At least we didn't run into the same problems as the guys up the street, who are flamboyantly into seasonal decorations. They had huge inflatable pumpkins, and inflatable spiders, and other creepy-crawlies. Half of them looked as though they were candidates for this year's (canceled) Albuquerque balloon festival - they certainly (apart from the glowing pumpkin lanterns) looked extraordinarily out of place in these parts. Only ... the same guys have been slowly planting a cactus garden. These inflatables don't seem to have inflated again since a strong wind was blowing them around at the time of the snowstorm: it would seem that colored plastic spider-skins and cactus spikes may not have very happy encounters.
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