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Curtis Carper

I’ve been involved in RVing for 50 years now -- including camping, building, repairing, and even selling RVs. I’ve owned, used, and repaired almost every class and style of RV ever made. I do all of my own repair work. My other interests include cooking, living with an aging dog, and dealing with diabetic issues. If you can combine a grease monkey with a computer geek, throw in a touch of information nut and organization freak, combined with a little bit of storyteller, you've got a good idea of who I am.

See how to turn your garage into a haunted house, turn your yard into a haunted cemetery or graveyard, and how to make a synchronized Halloween lights display around your house!

Before you add car Christmas lights, here's what you need to know about the type of lights that work best on vehicles & how to power them with an inverter.

Lots of ways to make Halloween spider webs & creepy cobwebs to drape over items inside your house, in corners of a room, or outside on the porch... in trees... and bushes.

Lots of great ideas for DIY Halloween props & special effects. Most have simple instructions for props & special effects you can make. A few you can buy.

For any occasion throughout the year, giving homemade food gifts shows that you invested some time and effort, and that you gave this gift some extra special attention. People love receiving personalized gifts of food! Here are some great ideas for making homemade food gifts.

Most of these aren't Santa pictures with kids, but for one reason or another they make you chuckle. These are my favorite laugh out loud Santa pictures. Most feature Santa caught in some interesting places or other strange predicaments.

Make your next party a flash back to simpler times. A retro party can take someone back to their childhood or enlighten a younger person to what life was like back then. Besides it's a good excuse to take your Poodle Skirt out and put it to use.

Why not make this a memorable Christmas for a person or a family in need? Here's how to find individuals and families to help this Christmas -- both locally and nationally. Plus ways to help them in person, or anonymously.

The best pumpkin carving templates covering everything from the most basic designs that younger children can easily handle to very advanced works of art that are best left to the truly skilled artists.