Building on the success of our first scarecrow, Bruno, we combined different techniques to merge scarecrow with corpse.  The result was a hideous hybrid named "The Grumble".

This guy turned out great.  However, we did learn a hard lesson.  Why I keep going back to the well of bad ideas I'll never know, but take my advice and do NOT use PVC pipe as a main post.  The main post is the thing that you stick into the ground and to which your scarecrow is mounted.  Use wood, or build a stand.  Our scarecrow suffered the humiliation of doing a face plant when, trench coat weighed down with rain, the main post bent so far over that it finally snapped. 

This was a fun project, but I could have used another month to add the details I wanted.  Especially since I was building not only a giant pumpkin head from scratch, but also a skeletal torso.  The paper mache work alone took a couple of weeks.

The Grumble is mostly poultry screen and newspaper, and it took about a month to build.  I found the paper "vines" to be a neat detail that took on a life of their own.  I chose all inorganic materials this year because I wanted The Grumble to last for more than one season as did Bruno.  One scarecrow head sitting in the garage is enough.

Your ol' pal Spook has learned some new tricks since the time that the Grumble project was originally posted, so look for boxes like this where I'll be cutting in with the skinny from time to time.