Hoover Halloween…..Enter If You Dare!

Once again, the Hoover’s outdid themselves in entertaining the entire town.  Children of all ages talk about the Hoover home at Halloween.  It’s the place everyone wants to visit to get their annual scare.  I actually went a little early to get some pictures before everyone started doing their trick-or-treating.  When you first arrive, you are required to pass through a “Tunnel (Cave) of Terror” before you reach the door to get your treat.

Outside the tunnel/cave….




This next picture is of a ?????  It doesn’t exactly have a name.  Mr. Hoover made this huge ????? out of many bones from different animals.  The fingers were actually made out of ribs from another animal skeleton.  How does he think of these things?  Look at the feet…Ewwww.  The only part of this ????? that isn’t authentic is the skull.


Ready to adventure the inside?…..Let’s go.  Remember, these were taken during the daylight hours but at night, there are even more things, live things, lurking inside!






Oops, sorry about the blurry picture that comes next.  I was taking pictures when a huge spider decided to make it’s move towards me.  Scared me, just a bit.


This is how the picture was supposed to look, after calming myself down.


The next set of pictures are of things all around the cave and front of the Hoover home.


















This is the site you see when you drive up to the Hoover home on Halloween night.  It’s an enter if you dare, thing!  Sitting there trying to get a photo without people entering was not an easy task.  In between taking pictures, all you could hear was a lot of screaming going on.


These next few pictures are the beginning of it all.  You know Halloween is coming when you start seeing birds appearing on top of the Hoover home.  Mr. Hoover made all these birds himself and from the street, they look so real.  The main bird on the chimney stays up all year round and at Christmas time, he wears a Santa hat.




To the right of the Hoover home is a large field that Mr. Hoover has transformed into a grave yard.  There are over 35 grave markers.




Quite the Halloween home, don’t ya think!

School Zombie

About a week, or so ago, this zombie character (minus the human body inside) has been resting it’s weary body in different locations around our school.  He's been in the gym, lunch room, and foyer just sitting, reading, etc. Each day, he posed doing something different.  He actually became part of the school with little attention being paid to him.

Until today……………HE CAME ALIVE!  The children thoroughly enjoyed this.  What a fun way to start Halloween off for the children.

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Kenmore Stackable Washer and Dryer

Can I say how much I love my Kenmore stackable washer and dryer.  I got this set when my oldest daughter, who is now thirty, was pretty young.  Add up the math folks…..this makes my stackable around 20 - 25 years old.  In all that time, we’ve only had a repairman come to our home one time and that was to fix a belt.  I know, I’m jinxing myself by blogging about my wonderful Kenmore.

The lint trap is right on the inside of the door.  Now how easy is that for cleaning out the lint………….VERY!

And for it’s age, it even has a computerized control panel…LOVE IT!

Well, around 5-6 weeks ago, my little stackable was making a super loud popping noise that actually shook the dryer a bit every time the drum turned.  As a result, I’ve been using the washing machine part and then hanging my clothes outside since the weather has been so warm.  I actually like hanging out clothes.  I called a repair shop in Idaho Falls (90 miles away from our home) to get an estimate on how much they would charge to fix the machine and this is what I was quoted: $250 just for the trip out…..$79 evaluation…..plus part costs and wages.  He said it would run around $300 – $400.  Ouch!  I was looking at the inside of the drum the other day and noticed a screw that was hanging loose in the back of the drum.  One screw was almost out and another one was really loose.

My husband went right to work tightening the screws and now it works like a charm, again.  Whew, am I ever glad I didn’t have the repairman come out and pay that kind of money just to be told we had a couple of screws loose.  For that, I think I would have needed a psychiatrist. – Ha!

Video Still Shots

It was either last night or the night before that I was playing around on my computer and figured out how to get still shot pictures off of my videos, using the snipping tool.  It took me quite awhile to figure this out but I’ve actually been having fun doing it.  I have to keep freezing and freezing the video to get it at a spot where I want my still to be captured from.  I don’t always get the shot I want but I guess that will come with time and practice.  Here are some of the pictures I captured.  It will be fun playing around with this technique to see how I can perfect the method of capturing the still shots I want.