Well, it has finally come, the grains of sands are just about finished falling for this year and the giant blog clock is just about to turn to year … wait for it .. wait for it .. TWELVE. So many years, so many words, so many photographs and still enjoying every minute of it. Well, maybe not those times when I am up against the wall trying to get the blog quota in before the turn of the month. I haven’t finalize plans for the New Year yet (do not like to rush into that due to my absolute commitment to fulfilling whatever resolutions I come up with), but it feels at this point the blogs will be once again a mainstay in 2019. As likely the last post of 2018, decided to close out the Halloween posts. So far I covered the prep and two posts on the trail itself. Only thing left is to talk about the tear down. The way this usually works, is it takes a couple of weeks to get it all prepped, another 3 or 4 days to get it set up and then excruciatingly tiring hours to get it all hauled back up the hill once all the guests have left for the night. This year it went a little different thanks to the rain that started falling as the party was winding down. We had to take the final pictures during the rain (thankfully the tree canopy kept us fairly dry). By the time everyone left, the rain was coming down too hard to get the vehicles down and up the now very muddy hill. Only thing I could do was put on the rain coat, turn off all the props, remove the sensor batteries and haul up a few of the smaller electronic decorations I didn’t want expose to the night of rain. That took over an hour to do that resulting in one rain soaked Bri.
Hit the jump to see a few more shots from the tear down.
