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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 3, 2024 9:13:21 GMT -5
I almost forgot to tell y'all about this:
Okay, this is a store mannequin figure that I found a costume for. I call her the "Woman in Black". This year I had her planted a little away from the graveyard scene under what I call the pine grove (a circle of five trees).
Anyways, as I was carrying her back to the shed yesterday, I had to stop and tried to awkwardly open the gate while holding on to her with one arm. Well, her head fell off and when it hit the ground hoards of carpenter ants came pouring out from the neck area. It was like a horror movie.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2024 10:14:08 GMT -5
My sister brought over a big bag of candies my niece had purchased intending to give out for Halloween. The tootsie rolls I can probably finish off myself by next Halloween, but the rest aren't my kind of candies. They have Oct 2025 expiration dates on them. If I left them in my fridge all year until next Halloween, would it be cool to give out? Or should we just call it a loss and toss them? Or you can leave them on park benches and so forth. I would just use them in the candy bowl at work...BUT YOU HAD TO GO AND RETIRE, KOBB |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2024 10:14:38 GMT -5
I almost forgot to tell y'all about this:
Okay, this is a store mannequin figure that I found a costume for. I call her the "Woman in Black". This year I had her planted a little away from the graveyard scene under what I call the pine grove (a circle of five trees).
Anyways, as I was carrying her back to the shed yesterday, I had to stop and tried to awkwardly open the gate while holding on to her with one arm. Well, her head fell off and when it hit the ground hoards of carpenter ants came pouring out from the neck area. It was like a horror movie.
Way cool! |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2024 10:25:59 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 3, 2024 18:03:38 GMT -5
I almost forgot to tell y'all about this:
Okay, this is a store mannequin figure that I found a costume for. I call her the "Woman in Black". This year I had her planted a little away from the graveyard scene under what I call the pine grove (a circle of five trees).
Anyways, as I was carrying her back to the shed yesterday, I had to stop and tried to awkwardly open the gate while holding on to her with one arm. Well, her head fell off and when it hit the ground hoards of carpenter ants came pouring out from the neck area. It was like a horror movie.
Way cool! Did you read the comments below the picture? Less "way cool", more "nightmare fodder". |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 3, 2024 18:19:23 GMT -5
I was compelled (by my inner weirdo) to leave this Halloween prop in the window high up in the shed's loft. I'm confident no one's ever going to try to break in.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2024 18:32:39 GMT -5
Did you read the comments below the picture? Less "way cool", more "nightmare fodder". Of course I did. That's what I was responding to. I hope you ran to the hardware store for some ant juice. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 3, 2024 18:55:33 GMT -5
Did you read the comments below the picture? Less "way cool", more "nightmare fodder". Of course I did. That's what I was responding to. I hope you ran to the hardware store for some ant juice. I think what happened is: A couple of months ago I dusted a colony of carpenter ants I discovered inside the doorway of my year old shed with some poison. I suspect the survivors of their colony stayed inside the shed but headed (literally in this case) to higher ground. She was leaning against the shed wall that whole time in the weeks following my attempt to eliminate their colony, until I brought her outside for Halloweentime. If I am correct in that assumption, it’s amazing I didn’t get bitten when I hauled her out to the yard in Early October. I also can’t account for how they might be surviving if they had been living in the head/body of the mannequin for all that time. So maybe these carpenter ants came from her two+ weeks standing under the pines, beckoning to neighbors and passerby.
Here's a look at her this year at her post under the pines:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 5, 2024 14:44:03 GMT -5
Of course I did. That's what I was responding to. I hope you ran to the hardware store for some ant juice. I think what happened is: A couple of months ago I dusted a colony of carpenter ants I discovered inside the doorway of my year old shed with some poison. I suspect the survivors of their colony stayed inside the shed but headed (literally in this case) to higher ground. She was leaning against the shed wall that whole time in the weeks following my attempt to eliminate their colony, until I brought her outside for Halloweentime. If I am correct in that assumption, it’s amazing I didn’t get bitten when I hauled her out to the yard in Early October. I also can’t account for how they might be surviving if they had been living in the head/body of the mannequin for all that time. So maybe these carpenter ants came from her two+ weeks standing under the pines, beckoning to neighbors and passerby.
Here's a look at her this year at her post under the pines:
That would make sense... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 5, 2024 18:12:30 GMT -5
I've definitely seen carpenter ants around the yard before. There is a stump in another part of the yard that's had active colonies since I moved in seven years ago. If I give it a little kick they come streaming out.
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Post by Deeky on Nov 5, 2024 23:12:42 GMT -5
I've definitely seen carpenter ants around the yard before. There is a stump in another part of the yard that's had active colonies since I moved in seven years ago. If I give it a little kick they come streaming out. Kick it! |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 6, 2024 7:35:53 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 6, 2024 11:05:47 GMT -5
This one is pretty amusing, too:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 6, 2024 14:33:58 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 6, 2024 17:57:50 GMT -5
Ha! Impossible to pick a favorite.  |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 6, 2024 20:19:58 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 7, 2024 9:55:12 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 12, 2024 11:18:14 GMT -5
Okay, so I have two of these giant spider props that I got from Spirit Halloween back in 2016-2018ish. Pic attached is not the correct spider, but it will do for the purposes of this post. So, my neighbors borrowed the greyer spider and some webbing to do up their yard for Halloween. Both spider props are sort of dry rotting around the head areas with the plastic breaking away. My neighbor asked if she could try to repair it as a sort of favor for letting them borrow it. Anyway, they brought it over a couple of days ago and she fucking nailed it! I'm talking you cannot even tell where the repair job and old parts begin and end. Perfect color matching and the thing looks as good as new again! Very excited about this because they don't carry these anymore. The other spider (shown) is even worse off, but she's willing to give it a go saving it, too. It's buried deep in the upper loft for now, but thrilled that I might have both of them still usable for some more years to come.
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