Bones or Mo' Bones Day

 Yes, I appropriated the title from the latest internet sensation.  Parody is fair use, after all.  Anyway, a few weeks ago, I wrote a post about some of the Halloween decorations I saw on my way to work.  Well, since then, a few more decorations have been put up.  Many of them revolve around skeletons.  Quite a few of them in fact.  For instance, the home which had the heads placed on pikes have since moved them to a different location.  In front of the pikes is a skeleton with a helmet, sword and shield.  Something out of the old Jason and the Argonauts movie.  Unfortunately, one of the heads has since vanished and one of the pikes have fallen over.  At least they still have a giant inflatable red-winged bat.  Another house has put back up their dragon skeletons.  Two dragons, one much larger than the other, stand in front of their home.  I can't be entirely sure, but they may have either added some lights to the bones or painted the horns and claws to make them stand out more.  At least they don't have the Santa hats they used for Christmas still on them.  Hey, those things are probably expensive.  Why not repurpose them for other holidays.  Even the city of Prestonsburg has a small skeletal dragon for an official town display.  This doesn't include the tattoo parlor with the skeletons and fake graveyard in front of their business.  At least they go very well with the sarcophagus they keep outside the door.  Another place has not one or two, but four skeletons out in a display.  A skeleton dog is 'barking' at two human skeletons sitting on a bench, along with a life-size horse skeleton standing nearby.  Oh, did I forget to mention the place is a stable?  Not sure if the horse is appropriate for a stable, but if it works.  The stable has about six or seven horses; I'm not sure exactly how many. Recently, two ponies have also been there.  Or at least visiting the corral.  A few times, I even saw a baby donkey there.  It's mother too, but this was years ago.  The weirdest skeletal sight might be the small dinosaur outside a business just outside downtown Pikeville.  Maybe I house.  I was focused on driving, so I can't remember where I saw the thing.  Now, a small skeleton is great for Halloween, but a dinosaur?  And I'm talking about a fairly good replica.  I used to be an amateur paleontologist so I can recognize such things.  Now, I couldn't tell if it was a T-rex or just a generic bipedal beast, but I think it had sharp teeth.  Still, dinosaurs are not appropriate for Halloween, even if they are skeletons.  Maybe they had a model for some reason and repurposed it.  Cheaper, if weird.