But some truck-or-treaters in Louisiana spoiled the Halloween experience for everyone around. Their second big mistake was stealing all the Halloween candy, AND some pumpkins from someone’s porch, within sight of the wide-angle doorbell camera. Their first and biggest mistake was using their work van with the company logo and information in bold letters on …
Continue reading All of our trick- or-treaters were polite kids, with parents on the sidewalk.
Ding Dong! Trick or treat! The obligatory black cats (and other cats). This is the perfect costume for your black cats Simple and effective! Teddy witch with black cat familiar. https://twitter.com/simonscat/status/1984255570652905828?s=46&t=AkJV8dX_RyhUKPG8uj0KNQ And, of course, the cats get the last word! Clever! Please beware of DemocRats when out on Halloween. They are really scary! Scary!! This …
Continue reading Happy Halloween! Memes, Cartoons, and Spooky Stuff
We just returned from our trip to the Carolinas. On our last day, our friend took us for a pleasant walk through downtown Aiken, SC. The day was sunny and warm, and it was pretty quiet on the main drag, with its angle-parking (free!), and little shops and restaurants. Wall paintings, downtown Aiken It seems …
So it would be just the time to have some black cat fun and raise awareness that black cats are definitely NOT bad luck in any way. They are sometimes neglected at the shelter, due to superstitions that should be put to bed once and for all. In fact, when I open my bedroom door …
Continue reading October is Black Cat Awareness Month (Halloween anyone?)
Readers will know that we just returned from a week in Nashville for Turdstock2024 and some sightseeing. Here are some highlights. See what welcomed us at the hotel front desk! Friday started out with a short walk near our hotel, which was right across from the campus of Vanderbilt University. Its buildings are from a …
Here are some seriously mysterious photos. Some are almost eerie. This one was just meant for Halloween, wasn't it? Will a pirate ship materialize out of the fog? This really was scary. At the top of Logan Pass, on Going-to-the-sun Road in Glacier National Park, the construction left absolutely nothing between that rock wall and …
Continue reading Sunday Stills: Focus on the #Mysterious, if you can
I understand that it's both National Cat Day, and the weekend of Halloween. So I decided to celebrate both holidays with pictures of our Halloween Black Cat, Kikyo. She is around 12 years old now, which makes her a Senior cat (to go with her Senior Staff, myself and Hubby). Here are some pictures of …
Continue reading Happy Cat Day! And Happy Halloween! Twofer!
Last night, we watched "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", a movie made in the 1960s. Linus insists that the Great Pumpkin will arise out of the pumpkin patch and bring toys to all good kids. While he and Sally are waiting around in the pumpkin patch, the other kids are having a fun Halloween …
Continue reading How things have changed: Pumpkin carving then, and now.
This morning when I went out the front door to walk across the street to our mailbox, I noticed that our neighborhood was shrouded in fog. We have a pear tree in the yard, and on my way back home I noticed that it was shrouded in spider webs, made more visible by the fog-deposited …
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