Spooky thread for Halloween

I must say I hate Halloween - I know it is a fun time in the USA but over here it seems to be an opportunity for yobbish youths to terrorise us and extort money out of us (they moan if you give them sweets & dispose of the sweet wrappers all over your garden!). If you don't answer the door they throw eggs at you windows and vandalise your property!

Besides all that I have put together a spooky photo thread for Halloween!

http://www.picturesofengland.com/user/Steph1J/tour/Spooky_shots

That is an far cry from over here Stephanie...they need their f.....s kicked for their treat of the day...but you know there are always those types that ruin any kind of holiday activity for meanness.

Usually we make it an time for people to gather and watch their kids trick or treating through teh streets, there's an lot of parties also, ussually costume, geared for the ages involved. My kids usually go up an street from here to their friends house for the evening. While the guys take the kids out, the ladies get an movie started and other activites for when they come back, and they visit.  Abotu two dorrs down there's an house where th eentire front yard is decorated...and the kids like to see the local house decorations. They have an huge green spider (blow up type tied down with wires to the roof) crawling over the roof of their house, and the front yard is all grave stones you can read...one flaps open to daracula...who sets up an goes HA_HA_HA!..let me drink your blood. Another house simply ties sheets of little ghosts all over, from tiny one in high buses to smaler trees themselves. I do an scarecrow thing myself...I have an wolk mask I put on and stuff body of an plaid shirt and pants...si thim on my front porch, there have been times I've opened up my garage and trick or treated out of it, and offered the kids hot coca in small cups and the adults coffee in years past also. But we use it an time to catch up with what everyone is doing that we haven't seen for an while.

Another Americanism in that first line Shirley that might not be acceptable here, so I edited it!! Lol....Oh dear, what have I let myself in for?

My grandson and I went through your thread, I kept getting scared, but he kept rationalizing to me what it really was, "No ....those were NOT spider legs "marks" on the building... they were trees... Grandma!"...Trees!

What "Americanisms"?.....I've  been told I'm Scot-Irish, English, German, Native American for beginners....laughs* .."Americanisms"...I'm still trying to figure out how out of hurricane clouds someone can see an duck, an clown, and volkswagon beatle bus, and Ricahrd Nixon's nose of all things...I wrote back and asked if he wasn't sure it wasn't Jimmy Duarantes "nose" instead.....So goes it this morning.