As Relevent And Catchy Now As It Was In 2004

I had all kinds of fun and interesting things to still share from Halloween.  But now I am just depressed and angry.  So I will share this instead.

I won!

 I won the Ricks Garden Center Pumpkin Carving Contest Adult category with my little owl pumpkin. 

I get a $30.00 gift card from Rick's.

Yay!

The Great Pumpkin Project

For my last Halloween post, I will honor the Great Pumpkin Project.  On Monday,  a friend and I drove to the town of Victor to leave some pumpkins. 

Victor is a creepy old place with lots of abandoned mines, an active mine and late 1800's buildings, perfect for covert pumpkin operations.  If your not familar, the Great Pumpkin Project started as a blog back in 2015.  The original idea was to leave a pumpkin every night of October in a creepy location with a Great Pumpkin Project Tag. I am just too busy to do every night or even every year.  But this year just felt right.

We left at 4 in the afternoon which was probably too early as it was light till after 6.  Our first stop was to visit Victor's troll, who is named Rita the Rock Planter. 

We thought a pumpkin would look great left there.

In the end however, we moved it to a sheltered location because of predicted high winds.

The second location was another bunch of derelict old structures leftover from mining.  The pumpkin was a flame and witch carved by my friends spouse.  The design got a little battered by the car ride.

Lastly we left a pumpkin at The Black Monarch, a haunted boutique hotel.  They had a coffin prop just perfect for the occasion.

All pictures taken by my friend except the fourth one.  Thank you all for hanging with me this holiday season and to Dex for hosting the Countdown to Halloween.

WTF Manitou

 I just wanted to say it is October 30th.  The city of Manitou Springs has a crew out installing this.  

What the Fuck Manitou? Halloween hasn't even happened.

In other business, here is my submission to Rick's Garden Centers Pumpkin carving contest.

 

Emma Crawford Judge Results

 The judged results are in for the Coffin Races.  Suprisingly, they did not judge for best coffin which was suprising since they were lots of good one this year.  Instead they gave a Brewers Cup Award so perhaps the organizers (the Manitou Chamber of Commerce) made some kind of a deal with the brewers and an award.  Anyhow that was won by the La Burla Bees Marilyns.

The best Emma was the same as years past.   So much for originality.

The best entourage was called Conjuring Emma.  They did have a cool coffin in the shape of a Ouija board.  Emma was levitating over it in the parade which was quite fun.

A Day at the Races

 Sat. October 26 was the Emma Crawford Coffin Races.  It was a beautiful day - sunny with a high of 70.  Perfect race weather.  Of course, the contingent from the Haunted Parlor was in attendance.

There were coffins

 

Costumes

 

All Manner of Emmas - she rides in the coffin

And of course a race!  The teams were fast this year - we had about 8 run it in under 30 seconds.  There was a tie for first between the Team 33 Manitou Kiwanis Key Club and Team 19 The Manitou Music Foundation - the Treble Makers.  Both teams ran a 27.7.

And here they are in action.

Third place at 28 seconds went to the Team 38 Zombie Tigers from American Furniture Warehouse.

It was a wonderful race darling!  You really should come to Manitou sometime and see it for yourself.