I agree with you, that’s the reason I chose to not go through the hassle of a “long distance” yard haunt like last year’s. It’s a lot of driving and a lot of work to set it all up and then tear it down that night before having to haul everything home and put it back in storage the next day.
They are also not fans of my choice of “haunt” because I use occult and Satanic imagery and sigils in my cemetery/pumpkin patch. There’s zero violence or blood or gore, just the dark, fog, candlelight, firelight, and a few bones.
I’ve also built a few monuments(headstones) with epitaphs that aren’t christian and are “insulting” according to my family. You’re right, they’ll tolerate me for one night a year, but our 2 older granddaughters are 14 and 10 and remember what our front yard looked like on Halloween night, and now they want to help me with the set-up instead of trick or treating. I think that’s really cool and am looking forward to next October 31st.
Her’s a photo from a few years ago of the kind of things I do on Halloween night.
