Ron Weasley’s Favorite Halloween Decoration…
It’s not too late to create a huge-ášš spider for your front lawn. Just gather a little PVC pipe (well, OK, quite of LOT of PVC pipe actually!) and piece it together for a fun decoration that costs about $50 in parts. Assembly took about half an hour.
Each of the legs is made up of two two-foot sections of black 1.5-inch PVC pipe, a 90-degree bend, a 45-degree bend, and an end-cap (to prevent a real namesake from making its home inside). Yes, I know the picture shows 17 sections of two-foot-long pipe; there were just too many male/female parts that didn’t go the way I wanted, and I needed the last piece of pipe to cut two small two-inch sections in order to fit the final 90-degree bend onto the frame.
The best part about this is that it’s a very reusable decoration, with nothing to rust, break, or decay. I chose not to cement the pipe pieces together in order to reduce the storage size. That gave me a bit of a problem early on with pieces coming apart, but small strips of tape around the male parts and the pipes easily solved that. An unplanned-for benefit of not cementing pieces together allowed for variations in the level of the lawn.
And, hey, if any plumbing emergencies arise, I’ve now got plenty of spare parts!
Well, I can see my wife won’t be stopping by your house this year.