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Since the petunias are still blooming in the mailbox cover, instead of putting my Halloween decorations in it this year, I put them on the porch. I put an orange bulb in the porch light.

At night, under the porch light:

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morz8 - Washington Coast

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chloebud, I don't know when it became so common to lose things from yards. Things used to be safe in our yards. Our Next Door was reporting theft of entire sets of patio furniture earlier this year. People would come home from work to no outdoor furniture so that was taking place in daylight. I'm fortunate to have a neighbor who misses nothing on this street. If I were doing anything over here across the street I wanted to keep under wraps I'd be annoyed at his interest but since I'm not - I appreciate him.

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Olychick
last year
Very cute! Love the bat!
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eld6161
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Just enough!
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Bluebell66
last year
Really cute! I love the cat.
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woodrose77
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I love it! I agree with eld, it's just enough.
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chloebud
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So cute!!! I love the branch with lights. I didn’t do it this year but have used curly willow branches from our tree to arrange across the mantel. I‘ve also put some very small branches in a container behind this witch. I should add some lights!

ETA - Yes, that bat is too cute!
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arcy_gw
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Good for you!
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Fun2BHere
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Nice. Love the bat!
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morz8 - Washington Coast
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That's really cute, just enough to be welcoming. I love the bat. I hadn't realized I have no bats in my somewhat meager Halloween decorations. I don't do a lot of decorating for Halloween. My brother bought me one the big ghosts that's lighted and has some movement if plugged into an outlet, but we're as likely to have a windy wet coastal Halloween as a nice one and even with its grounding stakes I think it spends more holidays in its storage box as in my yard.

I had thought I might do my slate outdoor entry in the blue pumpkins this year until I priced the number I wanted! That would have been one very expensive temporary display for a house that will see only a handful of trick or treaters. I suppose our mail carrier and UPS, Fed Ex drivers might have enjoyed it. Most friends and family have the code to our garage door and enter from there.
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chloebud
last year
“That would have been one very expensive temporary display for a house that will see only a handful of trick or treaters.”

morz, you reminded me of posts I’ve seen on our local Nextdoor website. Some people are losing their outdoor Halloween decor to theft. One woman said she paid $400 for a 12-foot skeleton that was gone in the morning. Not that I’d pay that for a skeleton but pretty frustrating. Another person had everything in her yard taken, and her two small children were in tears. This is the first time I’ve heard of things disappearing.
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petalique
last year
I like your decorations! Yes, just enough. Love the bat and cat.

Maybe the victim of the theft should fantasize about replacing her swiped skeleton with that of the theif. Grrrr.
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chloebud
last year
That makes sense, petalique!
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OutsidePlaying
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Very cute! Thanks for sharing.
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”chloebud, I don't know when it became so common to lose things from yards.”

Agree! I never gave it a thought. So funny about your neighbor. Remember Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched? We had her identical twin on a previous street. Nothing got by her! She’d use binoculars to watch the neighborhood. It could really get on everyone’s nerves, but we also knew she was great for our Neighborhood Watch. There was an exception one Halloween. Every year she grew giant 75-pound pumpkins. She really ”babied” them as they grew rotating them so there was no bad, flat section on one side. They really were perfect. She displayed them all around the front of her house. One Halloween they were all stolen. It had to have taken the thief/thieves a while since they were so big/heavy.🥴 It angered me knowing how much time she spent growing and displaying them.

Totally off topic but that same neighbor had a dicondra lawn. She’d bring her vacuum cleaner outside to ”clean” it.😵‍💫
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So much for Linus and the most "sincere pumpkin patch" he got tricked by nature today!!
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Kathsgrdn
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Cute! My friend has added to her's this year and it's very cute too. More geared toward the little kids. I didn't put any out this year. Just lazy.
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bragu_DSM 5
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We had a proliferation of those tall skeleton things around town. kinda fun. quite a few had blowup things ... including a dragon.
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