Every year when we start to put this haunted barn thing together weird things start to happen in the barn. We have two rows of 4 big light bulbs each (total 8) in our arena in the rafters. When we started putting up the beams and making the internal structure of the haunted house, Russ went out and bought a bunch of big light bulbs to replace all the burned out bulbs so we'd have plenty of light to build in. We go all 8 bulbs shining bright ....... about 2 minutes (....and I'm not exaggerating here ...) one of the lights he had just replaced started to fizzle and slowly burned out. We had the normal reaction -- we both swore, kicked the sand in the arena -- and I went and got another bulb to put in. We put it in and then the one beside it on another wire line fizzled and burned out. That's when we looked at each other kinda quietly and said .....hmmmm. Um ...... that's weird. We left that one out and went on about our work. It has been 21 days since we put all those new bulbs in. Yesterday when Steve and I went in to put the new chimney in place ....... all but one bulb was burned out. You might think --Oh your wiring is nutty ...... but seriously we had that barn all rewired just a year and a half ago because we needed so many extensions and plug ins. We had an electrician in all day making sure that the electrical work was all ok. Hmmmmm ........ SO .... when Steve and I went into the Bloody Merry Christmas room it was pretty dark in there without any lights on. So I went into the main entryway and dug around in the light box and found a brand new box of regular light bulbs. I unscrewed a blacklight bulb from a portable light fixture and brought it into the Christmas Room. I plugged it in along with a string of eyeball lights. Super! LIGHT!! We can see!! We started working on the chimney. I screwed in one screw and fizzzzzzzzzle ...... ssssssttttt..... the light bulb burned out. The eyeball lights were still going off that same extension so the extension wasn't bad. I looked at Steve .... hmmmm ...... well, let's go get another light ..... so I got another light out of the box and we screwed it in and it worked the rest of the time we were in the room. Hmmmmmm..........
Friday, September 26, 2008
Weird Things Are Happening ...
Every year when we start to put this haunted barn thing together weird things start to happen in the barn. We have two rows of 4 big light bulbs each (total 8) in our arena in the rafters. When we started putting up the beams and making the internal structure of the haunted house, Russ went out and bought a bunch of big light bulbs to replace all the burned out bulbs so we'd have plenty of light to build in. We go all 8 bulbs shining bright ....... about 2 minutes (....and I'm not exaggerating here ...) one of the lights he had just replaced started to fizzle and slowly burned out. We had the normal reaction -- we both swore, kicked the sand in the arena -- and I went and got another bulb to put in. We put it in and then the one beside it on another wire line fizzled and burned out. That's when we looked at each other kinda quietly and said .....hmmmm. Um ...... that's weird. We left that one out and went on about our work. It has been 21 days since we put all those new bulbs in. Yesterday when Steve and I went in to put the new chimney in place ....... all but one bulb was burned out. You might think --Oh your wiring is nutty ...... but seriously we had that barn all rewired just a year and a half ago because we needed so many extensions and plug ins. We had an electrician in all day making sure that the electrical work was all ok. Hmmmmm ........ SO .... when Steve and I went into the Bloody Merry Christmas room it was pretty dark in there without any lights on. So I went into the main entryway and dug around in the light box and found a brand new box of regular light bulbs. I unscrewed a blacklight bulb from a portable light fixture and brought it into the Christmas Room. I plugged it in along with a string of eyeball lights. Super! LIGHT!! We can see!! We started working on the chimney. I screwed in one screw and fizzzzzzzzzle ...... ssssssttttt..... the light bulb burned out. The eyeball lights were still going off that same extension so the extension wasn't bad. I looked at Steve .... hmmmm ...... well, let's go get another light ..... so I got another light out of the box and we screwed it in and it worked the rest of the time we were in the room. Hmmmmmm..........
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Merry Christmas .......Muhahahahaha!
Steve and I worked all morning building the chimney for the Bloody Merry Christmas room.
It came out pretty good actually .... considering Steve and I are NOT builders!! :o)
This is just wrong ....
Got the "Little Brother" vest in the mail yesterday. A person wears a shirt or coat over the top with the front open and it looks like this weird, little, deformed baby is growing on the outside of someone's belly.
Reminds me of Austin Powers movie ..... "GET IN MA BELLAY!!"
Entryway is Finished!!
This year our victims will enter the haunt and turn to the LEFT (last year it was right). They will be greeted by the massive blood wall with dear ol' Henry hanging next to it. An eerie red light will be casting shadows on the wall .... (** to all you prop builders out there, this wall is made up of skulls purchased at walmart, llama, and cow bones from a local breeder and Great Stuff foam. :o)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
YIKES!
Good lord...... ROTTENTAIL IS HERE!!! .....or is this Kelly when she has a bad 'hare' day ..... AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! (sorry, I had to say it ... :o)
Pretty, pretty fairy .....
Looky at what came in the mail today!! They're PERFECT for the Tooth Fairy!!!! :o) Such pretty, pretty wings for a perfectly HORRIBLE fairy!!
Um......that leprechaun is a little bit bigger than I thought he'd be ..... uh oh....I bought 3 of those suckers ...... um ..... yeah, that's not gonna work.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Andromeda Decorates the Tree!
Ok! The tree in the entryway is finished!! Unless I find some other neat stuff laying around to put on it!! Andromeda -- the feared half man/half dragon (read more about Andromeda in "The Dragon's Eye Legend" on the website -- www.dragons-eye.com ) is standing next to the tree decorating it. ( ...to make Andromeda, I took one of Lauren's riding jump brackets and screwed another 2x4 to it and then took my pirate dummy and wired him up to the pole so he stood 7 feet tall, then I crawled up on my stool and put Andromeda's costume on him - very carefully --- and walla! Andromeda comes alive!!! :o)
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