We are in the final week of our favorite month and getting closer to our signature holiday – yep, Halloween is a mere 4 days away. Truth be told, we do celebrate this season a bit early with our Haunted Trail event typically being the last weekend in September. That is traditionally the best weekend weatherwise as it tends to nestle nicely between the late summer and the harvest rain periods. There is also a lot of things going on for our guests during the October weekends (football, marching band, trail races and other Halloween parties), so pulling the trail forward helps insure as many people as possible can attend. It does mean we are bit worn out by the time All Hallows’ Eve is upon us. I actually just finished getting all the props back into the storage shelves which is basically a colossal game of Tetris. Major concern as we packed as densely as possible and now appear to be out of space – will have to keep this in mind when considering new additions for next year’s haunt – my idea of using the guest bedroom was nixed by Linda before thought were fully out of my mouth!
While I sit on the phone waiting for the Canadian consulate to explain what kind of plague they infected our staff with, thought I would get out my last entry in this month’s “lifer” themed series.
Warning, these are not my best work in the field. In fact, this entire series was almost thrown out when going back through the day’s spoils. An Intrigued golden rule and late read of an eBird report saved them. We will see if you make the same mistake as I did when first seeing this specimen – after the jump.
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