Started decorating for Halloween

I know 2 posts in the same day.... oh well, makes up for going a month with nothing at all. Getting ready for Halloween, my favorite holiday next to Christmas. My lantern was working but it blew its fuse, so going shopping Friday to see if I can find some. Also need a few pumpkins for the porch. Will take another picture Halloween night because I have some bags with witches on them to put candles in that I'm going to put up the driveway to light the way for trick-or-treaters.

the little skeleton guy is in the corner of the yard at the end of the driveway.I was going to put the headstone there but the rock was already there and it just seemed to work. If you look closely in the bottom picture of the 3 pictures you can just make out the dog sitting in the doorway. 

And here is a full picture of the front of our house. As you can see we have a tree directly in the front that needs to be trimmed back a little...soon, definitely before Christmas decorations go up.

Monsoon season is over....

at least that is what the weatherman said, but looking out our back patio I'm not so sure. It officially ended last  month. This is what it was like yesterday afternoon. The wind blew, the rain poured, and the temperature dropped 20 degrees inside of a few hours. It rained so hard you couldn't see the mountain in our backyard. I heard that further south they had it so bad that there was a 9 car pile up on the highway. Only they didn't have the rain, they had the sand.  It feels great to open the doors and windows and turn off the air conditioning. It's 8:30am right now and it's still off. We're suppose to be 80's today and then 70's for the rest of the week (60's at night).