Unfortunately they appear to have been planted intentionally all over town here ... like right out front of the elementary school. Where they look like perfectly lovely trees MOST of the year. Apparently one annual week of That Stank isn't enough to justify replacing them with more normal trees.

AND there's an entirely different type of tree/shrub that's also all over town, and it smells the same! It used to be outside my old workplace in gawky-tree-form, and now the neighbors across the street have it as a hedge outside their front door. Maybe they can't actually smell it; one of my old coworkers couldn't.

Halloween is a great time to let children be creative with crafts. Crafts can help decoration for a children's party 'or simply add a little' fun Halloween at home. Here are some simple craft ideas that you can try with your children around Mashsupplies Monster Halloween.The: basic glue, white paper, string or yarn, scissors, old magazines, newspapers and / or junk mail, crayons. Give your child scissors with a capacity of a pile of old magazines and ask them to cut out facial features, hair and limbs from old magazines, newspapers and / or junk mail. If possible, give each child to do these tasks alone. If you kids can not cut yet, do it yourself the day before. Once you've cut out all the random pieces, mix everything and let the kids go wild playing Dr. Frankenstein. Let your eyes do not corresponding to their monster five legs, do what they want. Then, ask them to tell you all about the monster they created! Haunted Gingerbread Housesupplies: frosting, food coloring (optional), crackers or gingerbread, various sweets, including some specific to Halloween. Who says gingerbread is just for Christmas? Just ditch the candy canes and red and green for Halloween candy and other sweets as candycorns black and orange. Help your kids as needed to assemble their house with frosting to glue the graham crackers or gingerbread (if you're in the mood to cook ..) together in a house. If you like, pre-white food coloring orange or black. Then the children give them candy all over their house, going to good effect or more terrifying. Or keep the house empty and attach candy when you get home from trick-or-treat. Halloween MobileWear hook, yarn, scissors, markers or crayons, white paper This is a simple Halloween craft and your children may have done in some way to school, maybe for another holiday or a book report. Helping children to have to cut the pieces of Halloween-theme from construction paper. These may include pumpkins, ghosts, cats blacks, witches, monsters, random or by their design. Let your child design the front and back of each piece. Pop put a hole in the top of them, of varying length of wire through the holes, then hung on the hook wire. There you go, big, house decoration. An alternative to this trade is to attack the scraps colored popsicle sticks and use them as puppets, bookmarks and cupcake toppers. Theme Trick-or-Treat grocery bags or old pillowcase BagsPaper, scissors, markers or crayons, optional: stickers, pens, sparklies, other craft items, glue. If your boyfriend is one of those lucky few who actually knows what he or she wants to be before Halloween for ten minutes before leaving, because they have not, or the design of a bag of trick-or-treat that goes with the costume? If your daughter is a princess, for example, just take a paper bag, cut holes in the top handle for easy carrying to let her go to town princess MODIFY: pink swirls, flowers, hearts, maybe glue on some sequins or add some princess stickers. If you have an old white pillow case you do not mind giving up, let them do the same with that with appropriate materials. (Make sure that if the label is involved, is permanent, if it is near the toes of the child when they go trick or treating.) Your child will be the best equipped trick or treater on the block, and will not have to spring for a stock overpriced product! Welcome trick-or-Treaters SignPoster board, crayons or markers, optional: glue, scissors, craft materials for your children can help make your home more comfortable on the block with this job. Simple to make and decorate them a "Welcome Trick Or Treaters" poster for your front door. Chances are that will not need your help coming with Halloween themed designs! If you have a few kids, make a few signs, why not! These not only make your home holiday, but memories can be great, you can use it again every year. And 'Big Foot! Empty tissue boxes, white paper, tape or glue, crayons or markers, old newspapers, feathers, sequins and sparklies, glue, stickers, yarn, cotton, glue This can be a fun Halloween craft for kids for internal use. Save some 'boxes of historical fabric. You will need two for children. Cover the boxes of white paper. Then let your children decorate them up monster. Use rayons, markers, cotton, yarn, feathers, whatever you want. Stick paper in boxes so that the foot children can fit snuggly inside and let them roam around a bit to be Big Foot '! Of course, you know better what your children do and do not need supervision with. And do not hesitate to join in the fun, too. Crafts for Halloween, like candy on Halloween, not just for kids!