That is just amazing! I wish you had stepped back a bit in the video so we could see the whole display. I’d love to be a kid in your neighborhood.
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Well the good news for you is we do this every year (normally a slightly larger scale, so here is last year’s:
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They are nicely dense and aerodynamic so really fly down the pipe!
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Oh, very cute! Love the fog—really adds to the scene.
Too cool!
Would have been extra fun to pump a little of the fog into the candy tube, along with a blast of air and the plastic noisemaker from a dog toy, to make a gassy smokey farty effect as the candy shoots out the butt!
Maybe that could be an add-on for next year.
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The problem was I felt it was below the freezing point of the fog juice, and while we could keep the machine in the house, the risk of setting off the smoke detector is pretty high… It produces a staggering quantity of fog.
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I can’t believe I didn’t think of that for my horse skeleton. 
The things people just have around the house. Then again you have a tormach in the basement, so…
Double-win, your wife is tall enough to feed the horse.
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Hahahahahhahahahaha. My wife barely clears 5’. She can’t even put the blanket over my actual horse. She’s 14” shorter than me. That pipe was right at eye-level for me, so all day while we were setting up, I put a winter glove over it so i wouldn’t injure myself.
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It would be so hard to explain how you injured your face on the back end of a horse 
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Since it’s a dead horse I assume he was beating it.
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Yesterday three boys came to my door trying to sell off their family’s Halloween candy (made it look like school fundraiser). They wanted me to buy packets of M&Ms for $1. I told them I don’t do business with people who don’t wear masks…
They were quite surprised by my response; they hadn’t planned on that. It made them think, and didn’t cost me any money (“oh, they are so cute! Let me reach into my pocketbook” Um, no).
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That is so good; I love the witches! Last year I tried to talk two of my spinner friends to be in a photo with me while I was dyeing wool; we would have (dry) dyed wool from under our hats cascading as colorful hair, dressed in black and each would have a stick for stirring the pot. For some reason, they declined.
Well, in this case it would have been from the horse’s mouth, so not as embarrasing.
@henryhbk It sounds like a firm stool evacuates better than a loose stool?
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OMG I swear this group…get them going on April Fools or Halloween and you better bring a kleenex because you will be laughing so hard reading their posts…this did not disappoint. you are a riot!
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I bet your house is the favorite every year and the kids are telling their parents next year…we HAVE to go to the pooping horse house! LOL Nice putting a voice to a ‘masked face’ LOL Man you would be such a fun neighbor to have…makerspace in the basement and so fun on holidays!
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The indoor is way better when we have the party. My pumpkin margaritas are from scratch.
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I love the witches … oh my goodness!
You are a true fun-loving person. Excellent work!
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Will you share that recipe? (hey I’m not asking for a free file; so I’m in compliance here, right?) 
I have a son (25) that we always meet every Fall for a pumpkin smoothie from the local coffee shop. I’d love to surprise him at the house with a pumpkin margarita!!
I’ll share the watermelon margarita one that has become our favorite (it’s from online but it is very good)
The key is making the pumpkin syrup (otherwise it’s like any other margarita- and yes I still put in the lime, it does enhance the flavor making it bright and refreshing). So the way I make the pumpkin syrup is I take a larger can of the pumpkin (I have found the Libby’s 100% pumpkin works better than Trader Joe’s), then I add 2 cans of water, 1 cup of sugar and 2 tablespoons of pumpkin pie spice (since what everyone calls pumpkin flavor is really pumpkin spice) this can be according to taste, since these spices vary in intensity. Now you simmer with occasional bubble coming to the top, and you need to stir constantly or it will scorch to the bottom. After it has greatly reduced, you put it in a Rubbermaid pitcher to cool. It;s very hot with a lot of thermal mass, so I leave it on the counter until the outside is Molly warm, then into the fridge for a day.
When you take it out it needs a stir. Now this tuff is pretty gloppy, and so when you make up the margarita I find you really have to aggressively stir the pumpkin in, and you may find the margarita is very thick, and so you can add more margarita base as you see fit (in a pinch I have found you can use the Jose Cuervo golden margarita mix (already has the tequila) so you aren’t neglecting your guests making the f=drink. At our Halloween have a 3 gallon dispenser full of the stuff and often go through at least 4-5 gallons so using the pre-mix lets me refill in a few seconds. Not the pumpkin tends to come out of solution when just sitting there, so I have a long wooden spoon nearby to stir.
Note it looks terrible (brown thick margarita) but tastes exactly like a real alcoholic liquid pumpkin pie… plus it’s high in fiber!
I slice several lemons and limes and float them on top, mostly for looks but also for taste. You will need a sign if it’s not being served as nobody is pouring weird brown liquid on their own!
Other fun items are deviled eyeballs: (blood is beat juice, pupil is a black olive) we have done of those ice-tray plates to keep the eggs over the evening With the Mayo in it.
Eventually had to change the sign to a edge-lit one as it’s too hard to see the draft board one on the crazy lighting. I also learned some people didn’t grasp that it was alcoholic (why someone would want a pumpkin flavored brown sludge that wasn’t is beyond me)
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An update for @rodrigobrionesm from the Halloween post above, my son continues on to getting his ATP, just having completed his instrument stage check, and then onto commercial. Along with the program where he will become a CFI and CFII, he signed up for the optional MEI (which requires a year commitment to teach at UND post-graduation) since it turns out being an Envoy cadet they want you to do a multi-Engine instruction to future cadets. They are are only piper seminoles, but that’s legit multi-engine. I will say if you’ve never been out to UND you should take a trip. It’s the most amazing training fleet ever. There are 126 aircraft each more gleaming than the next all with full glass cockpits. They hanger them every night, and even before COVID they got cleaned every night. Plus josh found the local FBO who rents 172s, so he can fly for the worlds most expensive Dunkin’ Donuts run (the closest to grand forks is like 90 minutes away - so $400/dozen?). The last time he flew out there they were out of Boston cream donuts (he was angry), but he’s almost a third of the way to his restricted ATP (that restriction saves almost $100,000 of flying) plus once he’s an instructor someone else is paying for his hours!
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