This morning started like a typical MN Nov. Saturday, cold & sunny. Was spoiled from last Sat.'s temps. of 50's. Earlier in the week the forecast was for 50's once again. This morning proved them wrong. It was sunny, windy, & a high of 35o.

 I had known that I would be working on taking down the maze by myself. That was because my nephew called me to inform me that he couldn't make it due to work. But, was surprised that I had 6 family members chip in to help. That helped make up the difference for my nephew Jason working.

The four of us worked on it for the majority of the time. It wasn't till later that the other three people joined in. We spent a total of 4 hrs today working on it. Half the group worked on sorting stuff, the other half helped with demolition. Was glad that I wore multiple layers with the colder weather. By 6pm we had all the panels, doors, & scrap wood, stacked neatly against side walls.

 My pickup truck box was filled with tubs of my haunting stuff (props, etc.) to take to storage. I took a final look around & there is still stuff to sort through. Ugh. As I turned off the lights & shut the doors (I thought at least my brother inlaw can get his farm equipment inside the shed for storage). Will do a final sort & get everything put away next week.

Helpful haunt tip-

 Never mix a combination of square head screws & phillips head screws when either attaching walls or overhead bracing. It gets very annoying having to change out the bits at demolition time.

 We try to always use 2 1/2 in square head screws when attaching two panels together. Also we only use shorter 1 5/8 phillips head screws to mount props or small lighting effects.