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The House That Won Halloween

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I know we are still a couple weeks out from Halloween but I was walking Mike this morning (more on that later) and discovered a house in my neighborhood that is winning Halloween in my opinion! Here are the photos which of course do not do their whole spooky vibe justice:

Can you imagine being a 6-year old kid on Halloween and your parents are trying to convince you to go up to that front door and ask for candy!?!? I would be like “H*ll to the No” (why yes, I would be swearing as a 6-year old kid if asked to go up to that front door – ha!).

Image credit: Avera Health

The family that owns this house has likely spent thousands of dollars on Halloween and clearly loves this holiday! The decorations are HUGE and very high quality, nearly (low budget) movie set quality on some pieces (like I said, the photos do not do it justice).

So earlier in this post I mentioned I was walking Mike. Some of you might remember in January 2023 I had a terrible twist/fall on ice and broke my left ankle in two places requiring surgery for my complex fracture. It’s been a long road to recovery but I am now regularly walking Mike again and able to go on long-ish walks. I am so grateful as it was the first time in my adult life (January to April 2023) that I could not go on daily walks. It was a rough time mentally, physically and even “spiritually” for me – going on daily walks is everything to me.

I’ll write more about Halloween later in this month, I’ve been thinking about some sweet memories from life in Oregon related to Halloween and will share in another post.

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22 thoughts on “The House That Won Halloween”

  4. Who on earth has the space to store this stuff for another 11 months of the year…? Halloween isn’t nearly as big here as it is in the US, so I find the whole massive decorations thing a bit disconcerting anyway, but if you’re going to do it, I agree this is an outstanding result! I hope they’re not distractingly close to a major road…

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  6. Glad that your ankle recovered, and you are able to take walks. I find that the halloween decorations scare me. I dont like them in the store because they are motion sensitive, so they get animated when walking by. Last thing I need is to be scared and have to run out of the store.

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  7. Yeah! So glad to hear you are back walking. I’m sure Mike is grateful to make that part of his daily routine again. How does Mike do with the decorations? Ask gives them a share eye. Summer thinks they are alive and hackles and often growls.

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  10. Great you’re walking again. I’m sure Mike is pleased too. I’m assuming they have a lockup to store all this. Must be a bit spooky to get them all out each year. I wonder what they do for Christmas? Over here if people go all out they tend to have charity collection boxes outside too which is nice.

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    1. I am so grateful to be doing that 🙂
      I cannot imagine where they store those large pieces perhaps they have offsite storage they pay for!
      That is nice to have a charity collection box if people are enjoying the decorations – great idea for a little fundraiser. I will see what the house does at Christmas

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  11. So glad you are able to walk easily again and that you are most through the healing process!
    You are not kidding – this house definitely wins Halloween! Thanks for sharing your pictures 🙂

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