Last year I got to thinking.  Something just wasn’t right with the haunt, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was.  Then it occurred to me.  Even though I have added some new things every year, there was no real big change, nothing to refresh some of the tired looking areas.  With that in mind this year I have focused a lot of my time and energy on the mad lab, as well as a few other big changes.

Behold, the list of new props for Halloween 2009!  Yes, it is on a Saturday this year!

• New coffin lid to replace none functioning old one.  Now the opening/closing coffin will actually work!
• New jail cell to replace unstable old one.  This one closes on a hinge system to allow for easy set-up and storage afterwards!
• New tombstone with a surprise!  I always add one or two new stones each year and this year the tombstone will have a somewhat living friend!
• Pumpkin Stands.  I will have a whole bunch of columns that will display my pumpkins on top, getting them off the ledge I normally display them on.
• New fence!  I have built a whole new section of fencing to go on another side of my lawn, opening up new ways to display everything in the cemetery and all the fence sections have been giving a face-lift with some new finials I purchased off the net.
• Stone columns.  Connecting the new fence sections to the old will be two new columns with hidden speakers inside!  The columns were designed to replicate the stone on my actual house!
• The bat attack!  The skies over Haunt on the Hill will be busy on Halloween night!  This is a last minute set up, but if done right should look amazing.
• New mad lab desk.  The old one was warping and in dire need of an upgrade.
• The ULTIMATE electric chair.  I can’t say much, but it will be somewhat interactive!

And as always more will be there on Halloween night, but I don’t want to give everything away right now.  So, come on down, visit your favourite arachnid, Bubbles the vicious spider, donate some money to the Hospital for Sick Kids, and have some candy!  

Your friendly neighbourhood weirdo,

Rachel “Wednesday” Brown