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October 31, 2011~ 5:00 pm
No. I didn't disappear. I was soooooo bushed when I got back from our extended weekend outing to Chalk Hill, PA, I simply downloaded the pictures from my camera and went to bed last evening. (But today is HALLOWEEN!!!)
BOO!
That cat belongs to my boss....and he's a RIOT! He's there in all his Halloween-iconic splendor..... but still looks pretty pissed off. (Perhaps because of a kind of cat 'racial profiling' that telegraphs to all the world that black cats are WICCAN.....or satanic or something. LOL!!) I just love him. He's the only cat I know will immediately JUMP ON A PERSON'S BACK the minute they bend over. Scares the PANTS off of you.... he enjoys it immensely.
Our trip, from Thursday morning through Sunday afternoon, saw TWO SEASONS pass before our eyes. On Saturday, strolling and tromping around the gorgeous scenery at Ohiopyle....
the air was redolent with the smells of fall. Pine and fallen leaves and mossy fragrances. The sun glinting off every burnished and russet color and strung out in the trees... the full majesty of the mountains in AUTUMN was right there at our fingertips.
By Friday evening, that changed to ..........SNOW!!! EIGHT INCHES OVER THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT, so Saturday had us waking up and blinking in disbelief. Heavy, wet snow clung to everything, magically changing the same scenery to a set from 'White Christmas'. It was startling. And wondrous.
I have a link here, if you'd like to see all 51 picture.... (LOL!)..... but it does use 'Flash'....(which, of course, I don't have, but I was able to upload these at work.) Enjoy!
Chalk Hill Fall Trip
(Wayne, who was OFF today, and will be still home tomorrow, lucky guy....just came in with a BOATLOAD of Halloween treats and cards and gifts!) I'll put some images in here later, but OFF we go to see the grandkids, and join in their trick-or-treating adventures!) BOO, again!! The scary day is here!
October 31, 2011~ 10:30 pm
We-e-e-eeere BAAAACk! We had a TERRIFIC Halloween evening, DESPITE the constant drizzle. (Weather has NOT been cooperating with plans this week.) However, I joyfully present....
and it was a DOOZY! This year was particularly atmospheric and creepy. (The kids are getting old enough now to leap into the scarier stuff with gusto! Even the DOGS!) Here's John decked out in his sequiny red devil get up.
And Abby, a house-guest canine who belongs to Holly's dad. He couldn't be with us= he had to work, but ABBY sure had fun as a bright little pumpkin!
(Greg Brady, the other standard poodle, HATES getting dressed up. He gnaws and pulls until his costume is in shreds..... so Holly shaved part of his head and gave him Frankenstein suctures with a Magic Marker. LOL!!!) It didn't come out well on film, however. His SIDE too! ROFL!!!
Then there was BILL, who's currently fixated on anything 'WRESTLING'. He has action figures galore, and went trick or treating his his favorite wrestler's outfit.
Rey Mysterio!
Holly and Kay were both creepy vampires. Here's Holly, putting on Kay's makeup in the bathroom. (Kay's under that black wig somewhere.)
(The shower curtain in the background is inspired by the movie 'Psycho'.) Here they are in the kitchen, Kay whispering something to her mum.
And it obviously made her laugh!
(She makes a great-looking 'wench-bloodsucker', doesn't she?) Now......to the TRULY SCARY ONE.........KAY!!!! Holy crap!!!
AND YIKES!! (Right out of an 'Anne Rice' novel, that one! There's something really really creepy about child vampires. It's always been one of those images gives me the TOTAL chills.)
Even going to the BATHROOM had its moments.
(I couldn't resist snapping a picture of the oozing bathroom mirror with a gory gelatinous something running down from the top edge-- it goes with the 'Psycho Decor' currently in the 'throne room'.)
Before we set out this evening, Wayne showed up at the door with a bag chock FULL of Halloween surprises for me....
Fudge, milk chocolate that was foil-wrapped in Jack O'Lantern papers, a small stuffed vampire bear with red satin cape, a Halloween totem pole with a crow sitting on an owl sitting on a black cat sitting on a a pumpkin.... black bat flying overhead on a wire. I LOVE IT! And........ not one..... not two.... but THREE greeting cards
one cuter than the next. Yep. Despite going back to a stack of work today with all the confusion and fuss being out of the office for a few days that creates, it was a MEMORABLE and TERRIFIC October 31st. November..... here we come! Down the short, swift slide to the next two holidays.
Ya know.... you get old and the years race faster and faster; that's surely the truth. At least the people I love make it a GOOD RACE. I hope that's true for you as well. ((((Yawn))))..... great Caesar's GHOST! It's almost eleven. I have to be back up in 5 hours. Nighty nite, all. And HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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No. I didn't disappear. I was soooooo bushed when I got back from our extended weekend outing to Chalk Hill, PA, I simply downloaded the pictures from my camera and went to bed last evening. (But today is HALLOWEEN!!!)
BOO!
That cat belongs to my boss....and he's a RIOT! He's there in all his Halloween-iconic splendor..... but still looks pretty pissed off. (Perhaps because of a kind of cat 'racial profiling' that telegraphs to all the world that black cats are WICCAN.....or satanic or something. LOL!!) I just love him. He's the only cat I know will immediately JUMP ON A PERSON'S BACK the minute they bend over. Scares the PANTS off of you.... he enjoys it immensely.
Our trip, from Thursday morning through Sunday afternoon, saw TWO SEASONS pass before our eyes. On Saturday, strolling and tromping around the gorgeous scenery at Ohiopyle....
the air was redolent with the smells of fall. Pine and fallen leaves and mossy fragrances. The sun glinting off every burnished and russet color and strung out in the trees... the full majesty of the mountains in AUTUMN was right there at our fingertips.
By Friday evening, that changed to ..........SNOW!!! EIGHT INCHES OVER THE COURSE OF THE NIGHT, so Saturday had us waking up and blinking in disbelief. Heavy, wet snow clung to everything, magically changing the same scenery to a set from 'White Christmas'. It was startling. And wondrous.
I have a link here, if you'd like to see all 51 picture.... (LOL!)..... but it does use 'Flash'....(which, of course, I don't have, but I was able to upload these at work.) Enjoy!
(Wayne, who was OFF today, and will be still home tomorrow, lucky guy....just came in with a BOATLOAD of Halloween treats and cards and gifts!) I'll put some images in here later, but OFF we go to see the grandkids, and join in their trick-or-treating adventures!) BOO, again!! The scary day is here!
October 31, 2011~ 10:30 pm
We-e-e-eeere BAAAACk! We had a TERRIFIC Halloween evening, DESPITE the constant drizzle. (Weather has NOT been cooperating with plans this week.) However, I joyfully present....
and it was a DOOZY! This year was particularly atmospheric and creepy. (The kids are getting old enough now to leap into the scarier stuff with gusto! Even the DOGS!) Here's John decked out in his sequiny red devil get up.
And Abby, a house-guest canine who belongs to Holly's dad. He couldn't be with us= he had to work, but ABBY sure had fun as a bright little pumpkin!
(Greg Brady, the other standard poodle, HATES getting dressed up. He gnaws and pulls until his costume is in shreds..... so Holly shaved part of his head and gave him Frankenstein suctures with a Magic Marker. LOL!!!) It didn't come out well on film, however. His SIDE too! ROFL!!!
Then there was BILL, who's currently fixated on anything 'WRESTLING'. He has action figures galore, and went trick or treating his his favorite wrestler's outfit.
Holly and Kay were both creepy vampires. Here's Holly, putting on Kay's makeup in the bathroom. (Kay's under that black wig somewhere.)
(The shower curtain in the background is inspired by the movie 'Psycho'.) Here they are in the kitchen, Kay whispering something to her mum.
And it obviously made her laugh!
(She makes a great-looking 'wench-bloodsucker', doesn't she?) Now......to the TRULY SCARY ONE.........KAY!!!! Holy crap!!!
AND YIKES!! (Right out of an 'Anne Rice' novel, that one! There's something really really creepy about child vampires. It's always been one of those images gives me the TOTAL chills.)
Even going to the BATHROOM had its moments.
(I couldn't resist snapping a picture of the oozing bathroom mirror with a gory gelatinous something running down from the top edge-- it goes with the 'Psycho Decor' currently in the 'throne room'.)
Before we set out this evening, Wayne showed up at the door with a bag chock FULL of Halloween surprises for me....
Fudge, milk chocolate that was foil-wrapped in Jack O'Lantern papers, a small stuffed vampire bear with red satin cape, a Halloween totem pole with a crow sitting on an owl sitting on a black cat sitting on a a pumpkin.... black bat flying overhead on a wire. I LOVE IT! And........ not one..... not two.... but THREE greeting cards
one cuter than the next. Yep. Despite going back to a stack of work today with all the confusion and fuss being out of the office for a few days that creates, it was a MEMORABLE and TERRIFIC October 31st. November..... here we come! Down the short, swift slide to the next two holidays.
Ya know.... you get old and the years race faster and faster; that's surely the truth. At least the people I love make it a GOOD RACE. I hope that's true for you as well. ((((Yawn))))..... great Caesar's GHOST! It's almost eleven. I have to be back up in 5 hours. Nighty nite, all. And HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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