Scarecrows...this is awesome

Yep, are little town is gearing up for the Fall Festival at the end of Sept. BUT the town is hoping to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most scarecrows in one small town. Presently the holder of that divine title is a town in Ohio with 3311 (I believe) and our town wants to get to 4,000! That is more than the amount of folks who live here. Every family, development, business, church and school can participate with how ever many they want to do.

Hubby and I have been talking about making a couple and we talk and we talk some more, so I decided after church to go into the garage and start stuffing clothing and wouldn't ya know....he caught on and constructed the poles with which to hold our magnificent scarecrows and let me just say that we are the first in our development to do so...slackers. Get busy neighbors if you are reading this.

Here are some pics of the ones in town and ours, my batteries died and I didn't get to take the ones someone did of 2 football team scarecrows on a playing field with goal posts too, very cute.  Someone told a friend that it looked creepy coming into our town with all these scarecrows along the main road. Hmmm maybe you are really headed to the Bates Motel with Anthony Perkins.

Here are our good 'ole boys, Oscar and Cletus. They must be bashful with their ball caps down.

And here they are in front of the house. I think they make a dandy addition. Our little black pup, Macy, couldn't stop barking at them when she went outside, she doesn't like anything that is not the norm around here. Kizzy, our other pup, did a few barks and then went on about her business and could have cared less when she realized they weren't going to pet her or come after her.

These next two pics are at the same place; we were told they had 100 scarecrows between those in the yard and the ones along the road.

These were located at the preschool in town. To the far right there are many more with the red T-shirts that have the preschool name on them.

These next two pics are in front of the Methodist church on the main road. Here is the choir and those in white are sheep.

To the right of the choir and sheep you have the preacher and congregation. This was very cute also.

This would be so awesome if our little town could get into the Guinness Book of World Records, so pray bloggers. Everyone has worked really hard on this, you can' believe how many newspapers and plastic bags you go through for stuffing and folks have been so generous to give clothing, wood and whatever to make this happen. We have one more week to meet our goal and then the scarecrows have to stay up for the entire month of Sept. You have to register your scarecrows so that someone from the committee can come out, number them and take a picture.

I will try to remember to post to let  you all know if we were able to meet our goal.

Cheri