The Week's Best Updated

The week's best-in-blogs has been posted on the Fire & Brimstone page, including posts from Dave Lowe Design, Pumpkinrot, and Johnny Thunder.

Lazy Before Halloween?

Well, too lazy to post anything. There have been a few things I've wanted to post, but finding the time to sit down and actually write them up has been a losing battle this week (funny when you consider I spend a good eight hours or so a day -- virtually every day -- on the computer).

However, I have been keeping myself occupied building a Monster Mud wall crawler prop. The form's been made, the paper mache hands and head attached, and now I just need to cover him in Mud. I still want to build at least one or two ground breakers yet as well as another hanging corpse. I also have plans to build another Monster Mud creation, an evil fellow who will be sitting on a parapet overlooking the door where the ToTs will come, but that depends on my time management skills.

Home improvements (building a closet in an attic with a (obviously) sloping roof was a fun challenge, particularly considering the heat captured there), diverted a lot of my time, as well as moving my daughter into her college dorm.

However, I did manage to compile my latest list of great posts by my fellow Halloween bloggers which I've posted on the Fire & Brimstone page. Maybe a day late (okay, two days!), and the picture up there is one of the props being built. Looks like it's going to be a great haunt greeter!

Now that we're entering crunch time -- is there really just 62 days to go?! -- I'll need to focus my own efforts a lot more on what I want to accomplish. So much to do so little time. There's never really an end though when you want to improve and update your haunt on a regular basis.

A New Feature at Devil's Eve

I love reading what other haunters are up to and try to follow as many Halloween- and haunt-related blogs as I can. I'm sure others enjoy it too, but with the vast number of such blogs out there, it can be a challenge to stay on top of things. So I figured it might be useful to provide a weekly listing of some of the top posts from the prior week's scribblings.

Obviously it will be a subjective list, posts that I think are worthwhile or notable for whatever scrambled reason I may have. However, if in your own meanderings through the blogosphere you come across a post you think is worthy of bring it to the attention of your fellow haunters, send it to me and it may just show up in that week's list.

I'm always interested in finding new blogs to follow and I try to check out the ones you're following to see if I may be interested in them too. You can always check out "Lucifer's List" there to the right (you may have to scroll down a bit) to see if I'm following your blog or one that you follow, and if not, drop me a line or make a note in the comments.

There are some great writers out there and a fabulous collection of prop builders who inspire me to do more in my own haunt. I think it's only right that they be recognized for their efforts and get as wide an audience as possible.

Check the Fire & Brimstone page at the top right or click here to see the first installment of this week's top blog posts!