Fall Decorations  

Well dangblasted..I totally forgot to save some of my cornstalks for decorating out front. Instead, I already chopped them all up right after I harvested the sweet corn. Oh wait! I still have the popcorn I planted late out front near the road. Guess I could use those IF they are done by end of Oct. Just leave them planted and put a few bales of straw and pumkins nestled among the stalks. Thanks for the great idea, Grandpa Bob.

I am not the type of person to decorate for seasons only what little decorations I do put up for Christmas.

I don't decorate my house.
Last year, someone on the local BIA got the brilliant idea to put up cornstalks on the light poles along the major commercial section. Between the squirrels and the vandals, they didn't last very long and the sidewalks were a mess.

I love decorating for all the season. I wish I had the time to grow my own for decoartions. But I just don't have the time. so I pay someone else to grow them and then I arrange them around my house they way I like.

I will be decorating here in the next few weekends for the fall season. I will submit some pictures after I do it.

I grew broom corn this year, mostly so I could make a natural broom for my witch and have the corn stalks would have been an extra, but of course we had a wicked wind storm that knocked them all over, so I don't know how good they're going to look now.
This was the first year I didn't planted pumpkins because they never survive. Tried for 5 years in differant places but they always died from bacterial wilt.

So guess what grew in the back yard by itslef and actually produced this year?
Yup, pumpkins. Evidently the chickens have eaten all the spotted beetles which carry bacterial wilt.

So I'll be buying a couple bales of hay and pile the pumpkins on top of them. And then the cats will pick spots around the pumpkins and that will be the beginningof the yard display.

That's great GrandpaBob, you are really a jack of all trades, and you know how to take the things that you have to use for many purposes. That saves a lot of time and money. You are a great inspiration, you enjoy life and live it to the fullest.

I don't usually decorate for any of the holidays except Christmas. But the decorations that I do see are beautiful, my neighbor across the street decorates for just about every holiday there is.

Hi GRANDPA BOB,



No we don't decorate our home for Hallowen although I ttry to with little hanging around here and there with broomstcks and cauldron and a pumpkin but we don't have thanks giving day.


Tamara

I do like to put out some beautiful fall squash. The colors and shapes are so festive. If you get tired of looking at it, you can always eat it! lol Happy fall and enjoy your decorating!

hi Grandpa Bob i am anxious to see what the activities director our own Yara,a plump mexican young lady,will come up with for decorations for our halloween party here in G old Crest.when I came here the day before Thanksgiving last year I thought I would be out of here long before now, but my son is still out of work,its so hard to believe but there are zillions here for each blasted job.

I bought some decorations years ago and I use those. I take good care of them so they're in very good shape. I probably won't have to buy any for a few more years. I had planned to use corn stalks but only one corn plant came up!