Halloween 2003
47 Red Oak Rd.
Groton Connecticut
Still here in Connecticut. With some very creative storage we were able to store last years project. Here a hint: DO NOT BUILD A HORSE IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SPACE!!! This year was largely the same with only a few additions and a couple changes. I got a zombie costume from Fright Catalog at a really great price. In the daylight it looks pretty lame, but in the dark it totally rocks! I would stand in front of a nearby tree which I blended into like a chameleon and I would sneak quietly up on unsuspecting patrons. I scared most of the kids, and got all of the adults (abnormally high numbers of them) and would lope around like a zombie from night of the living dead. I wish I had a video clip of myself, but didn't think about it, maybe next year.
This year I built a pair of kicking legs over the summer using principles of the other crank creations I've built. It stores much smaller than my ground crawler crank, but assembles to about the same size. It was supposed to be stuck into the ground, like someone was buried up to their waist, but the thrashing of the legs was too much and it kept uprooting itself. So we hung it up in the tree where it ran for a couple hours, until one of the legs quit working. That confused the hell out of me because both legs should have quit. Later that night I had my answer. Even using cable and giving extensive testing during the summer it failed. Who would have guessed that the steel cable would have shredded like tissue paper? |
