It is a sad day in the LifeIntrigued household today – Some consider it the start of the Black Friday month, but around here it signals the end of my favorite month. Why is that our favorite month … because it has Halloween of course! To be more specific, it is the month we get to transform our house and woods into a celebration of the darker side. The Haunted Trail was built once again for the enjoyment of our Annual Halloween Cookout. Like previous years, the trail will be featured in an upcoming post. Unlike the past, there’s a special treat this year. Thanks to my brother we have pictures of the build process for the first time ever!
Every year we strive to make the trail a little better – a little more scarier, a little more to experience. Those new items are generally purchased during the previous year’s Halloween markdowns (pretty sure I’ve not paid full price for most of my items – hit Menards, Spirit, Halloween City the week after Halloween and you can find some nice deals – just have to wait a year to enjoy them). This year we rolled out all the new Posey’s that were constructed during the Winter months (link here). – by rolled, I literally mean rolled hehehe. Ron thought the pile of dead guys in the cart looked spooky on their own – luckily we didn’t have to explain ourselves to any strangers.
The entire process of building the trail takes about 6 days. The first day involves cleaning up the trails themselves. Wandering branches are pruned, obstacles like hedge apples removed for the safety of our guests and probably most appreciative is the thorn bushes are cut back to prevent any unwanted bleeding. The second day is trimming all the weeds on the trail themselves (the trails is too steep in some locations to get a mower in so that is all done by hand with a gas powered weed trimmer – this takes 6 to 7 hours to complete.
Hit the jump to see how the rest of the days fall out.
