Gone Feral In Idaho

 I can't believe we just put in a new garden and planted 100 bulbs Tuesday. It started snowing last night and we got about 10 inches in less than 24 hours. The stock tank and fish are winterized, and our decoy owl and hawk are now wearing funny hats.  View of the bit of foothills we have, this was taken in the dark. I also did my third round of shoveling and Kyle did another last night as well. The snow is piling up. The dogs are having fun romping in the knee deep (for them) snow.

Pumpkinrot, as usual.

We had perfect Halloween weather last night. Cool, but not cold, the fog hung low all night. I've been pretty worn out today, so much energy goes into our little yard haunt. I was a little better prepared and set up bit by bit during the week. Yesterday, I put out all the little finishing touches such as new ivy on the tombstones, the little LED candles sprinkled everywhere, some skulls, and four cow skulls our neighbor gave me last minute that I put on top of the new cemetery columns. The night before the light show had a problem and one of my skeleton ghost's set of eyes was misfiring, so I also completely redid the electronic project box with fresh parts. The amount of anxiety I have each year as to whether the light show will work or not almost makes me want to ditch the project and run the old fashioned par 38 spotlights. When I was done I started a diagnostic on the lights which requires turning on one channel of lights, running outside to see if it works (all the while...