2004…
It’s rather funny to look at it now.
depending on your point of view, you could say this was 4 months, or 16 years in the making.
We moved in in July 2004. And I knew I wanted to do SOMETHING for halloween, but I didn’t really settle in on a plan until September.
I had a modest collection of animal skulls and assorted bones, and the staff I had been using for various things since the age of 14. An unidentified bone I had fixed atop it in 2003, as it “looked like a demon face” according to my Uncle.
So, the witchdoctor idea took shape. Something I could use the torches to make well lit.
So, 2004, there it was. Me, a cow pelvis bone on my head, a costume that you can hardly see the fur on. 7 torches, a couple skulls, and “the largest candy bowl I’ve ever seen” as one kid put it.
Oh, how it’s changed…