Category Archives: Holidays
Guess what arrived yesterday?
But, but…I want to open it!
Whoo hoo In case we don’t get the big one made, we do have a little one!
Feed me, Seymour!
Yay for Trick or Treat night on Halloween for a change!
G’s new neighbors will be coming over Trick or Treat night and joining in on the fun.
I Invited our other new neighbors to come over for the after trick or treat dinner. They have been fairly warned that last year we had 300 Trick or Treaters show up. Their son is having his second birthday this coming weekend so we’ll add a little something special for him.
How do we top these?
The graveyard birthday cake
Spooky food
Now comes the figuring out the menu stage of our trick or treat fun. Our main dish is lasagna, I make a mean one. G is in charge of dessert.
We’re working on some snacks to nibble on during the trick or treat hours before we serve the post trick or treat dinner.
We will have a nice wine and mixed drink bar set up inside for our guests.
Last year, during the trick or treat hours, we drank vodka tonics outside–they glow in the black light, that was fun and we might repeat them this year.
Appetizers and some snacks are all we need to do. I could do a cheese ball mummy or a something.
Any ideas? What is your favorite spooky snack for Halloween?
Lasagna!!!
How much fog is too much fog?
Wouldn’t you know it. My new fog machine arrived yesterday and The Curmudgeon decided it was a good time to repair the old one.
**Banging head on the wall**
You couldn’t do that months ago when I asked you to? You waited until I ordered a new one?
Oh well, now I have two. We’ll fog it up like crazy this year. Is there really such a thing as too much fog on Halloween?
Did you talk like a pirate yesterday?
“Arrrr,” Gavin says.
Yesterday was talk like a pirate day.
Did you join in the fun?
We did.
Nothing funnier than answering the phone talking like a pirate and scaring the crap out of idiot phone salespeople.
You all have a good one!
Yes, it’s true I’ve been working on my Halloween props for months.
We have plans for another single large prop with some smaller effects for the porch this year. We are working on our design.
We aren’t mechanics so we’re a bit stuck on how to make our prop move. However we are quite resourceful so we’ll see what happens.
Last year’s porch decor…
4th of July war zone
Honestly, I can do without all the fireworks. They began before June. Yesterday they started in the afternoon and continued all night. For a city where it is illegal to set off fireworks we certainly did have a lot of big stuff going off.
I pity the pets. I pity people like The Curmudgeon who go to bed early and had such a total disruption of their night.
I might have been a jolly participant in the festivities if they hadn’t scared our rescue dog Lucy and given me one hell of headache. Yes, it was that much and that loud in our neighborhood. There was no getting away from them. I had to hold Lucy in my lap all night.
I wish the police could enforce the law but with so many people setting them off it is impossible for them to do it.
If I’m lucky my headache will leave before I wake up. If I can get to sleep.
You all have a good one.
Happy 4th…
Because The Curmudgeon doesn’t tolerate heat well we won’t be picnicking outside. If it doesn’t rain I will be grilling our dinner. I’m not sure what that is yet.
Poor Lucy is not thrilled with fireworks so I have no idea what she’s going to do when the city sets off its display and all the idiots around here do their versions. This will not be fun. She didn’t like the thunderstorm last night.
We have new idiots down the street that have been setting off huge aerial fireworks, set up improperly so they are going off low near the roofs. They will most likely set a house on fire this weekend. I hope it is not mine.
You all have a happy and safe day.
Corned beef and all the trimmings! Yum!
What a cutie! I wish I had the name of the person to whom to credit this, but I don’t. No, this is not my dog or my photo.
I absolutely love this picture. Again I don’t have a name to give photo credit to, wish I did. I do believe this is a Dutch bully.
Happy year of the horse!
I was born in the year of the horse and here it is again. Does this mean that this might be my year? Wouldn’t that be grand?
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