MORE THAN 150 PUMPKINS DECORATE LAWN

Thirty-month-old Addie Mae Stucker thinks the pumpkin decorations at her house are pretty neat. There are more than 150 pumpkin decorations in the front lawn and just as many inside reported her mother Mary Stucker.

"I saw people hanging eggs in the trees at Easter and I thought why not pumpkins," she said. This is the second year for the Stucker decorations.

Pumpkin treat buckets hang in a large magnolia tree. Blow-up pumpkins decorate branches of a small bush. Pumpkin lights frame the front window.

Windsocks, flags and other assorted pumpkin decorations complete the scene. Addie Stucker even lent her toys for the "pumpkin kids."

A headless driver sits in a toy car and pumpkin kids "play" on other toys.

When it came time to decorate this year, Mary Stucker thought she had more decorations than she did.

Husband Charles' only comment was, "Isn't this enough?"

A pumpkin border makes its way around the top of the living room walls. Pooh and hard plastic antique-looking pumpkins and a ceramic pumpkin candy dish are among the many pumpkins inside.

"I even had a Tupperware party last week and we had a pumpkin theme," said Mary Stucker.

You might also want to thank her for the nice rain we've had lately. "You can always bet it'll be really windy and rain as soon as I hang the pumpkins," she said.

When night falls, purple lights strung through the tree give everything an eerie glow.

The next time you see a pumpkin at a yard sale and think it would make a good decoration, you'd better be quick if you want to buy it.

Mary reports that all her pumpkins are yard-sale finds, seasonal mark-downs or gifts.