This was shared with me by ‘phunhaus’ as her favorite decoration for Halloween. Can you imagine the reaction of the neighborhood kids plus spider-phobes? :0)
While we’re at it, I found a couple more images to get you in the mood for the critters tonight –
@Britton65Sam on X
Steve Blumke
Enjoy your night!
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BBC
It was 26 this morning here. It’s a balmy 40 degrees now and sunshine. It FEELS really cold. We have this “unseasonably cold” weather through Thursday, and then it will probably be “unseasonably warm” after that until Mother Nature can make up her mind which season she would like us to have. (The high is supposed to be 74 on Saturday, after killing off all our remaining flowers, elephant ears, etc. :0( I shouldn’t be griping. I know that people got snow recently, and THAT is surely unseasonable in the fall).
I’m still smiling from yesterday, when I was parked at the bottom of our drive, trying to roll the big trash can down to the road without falling on my rear. The lady who delivers our mail drove by and we waved. She went down to the next house, then turned around and came back to give me our mail, saying, “Just wanted to save you another trip.” (Isn’t that NICE?)
She then asked, “Who makes all the art?” When I told her my husband and I made the stuff together, she said, “I just love it when I can drive up your driveway. I notice something different every time I come. I just love it.”
When I got back up to the house, I told my husband. We love it when someone takes the time to say something, particularly when it’s out of the blue and could easily NOT be said, that they enjoy what we’ve done.
Can you see me grinning and walking about 3 inches up off the ground?
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Thanks to Jonathan Slater – @paulsla1539372 on X
This HAS to be my all-time favorite Halloween decoration. He’s just so awful he’s cute. I wish I knew who had created him.
Steve Blumke
I had never heard of Steve Blumke before, but apparently he is to Halloween decorations what Ray Villafane is to pumpkin carving. They are both masters.
sun-gazing.com – Sam – @Britton65Sam on X
I’ve talked to you about my sometimes fantasy of having a huge hole dug in our back yard so I can throw my husband in it. Maybe I should consider the timing as during the Halloween season….
I wish you the happiest of Halloweens tonight!
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Murder Drones Wiki
I’m feeling like I got something important accomplished.
My purse is a bottomless pit. I admit it here, but not often, and not without defensiveness. When we’re out, I’M supposed to have everything we need for errands, for identity, money, notes, paper, kleenex, etc. Soooooo…..
That’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
BUT – My friend, Kay, lost her wallet last week and has been going through a really bad time trying to figure out what she lost and replace things. I decided that I couldn’t – if my life depended on it – list what was in my purse OR my wallet – and decided I would take time to take everything out of both, go through everything, throw stuff away, reorganize what was left, and create a list with specifics that I have printed and will keep in my office.
I just now finished. I guess it took me a good hour to do it, but I feel more confident that I’m not carrying a bunch of stuff I don’t need to, and that I have things more organized. This will also make sure that I don’t ever NEED the list. It’s like locking your keys in your car. You do it once, and it’s such a pain you learn to never do it again. :0)
It reminded me that my husband has a birthday coming up. I checked his driver’s license to be sure he isn’t up for renewal. Then I checked mine – and I WILL have to renew in March. I’ve now put this on my desk and computer calendars….
So, I did something I’ve been putting off for a LONG time and am patting myself on the head a bit that I did something good today.
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Freepik
Two days ago we had the front and back doors open, the ceiling fans on, enjoying a nice breeze. Now we have freeze warnings through Thursday, causing a flurry of activity yesterday in the Lewis household, trying to prevent pipes from freezing, turning off irrigation systems, etc.
The thing is, once we get through Thursday, we have lots warmer weather coming – no freezes and highs in the mid to upper 60s and 70s!
What I want to know is – who is in charge? I would like to lodge a note of diplomatic protest to the powers that be for this to be changed – along with Daylight Savings Time…
Who’s with me?
I love all the ghoulish, scary stuff that people create for Halloween. I laugh at the wonderful skeleton art and simply can’t find enough of that. There is also a SWEET side to Halloween through photography and artwork that rounds out the “special-ness” of the holiday nicely –
“Seasonal Greetings” – Mr. Barghest – @Mr_barghest_ on X
“Let Spooky Season Commence” – Mr. Barghest – @Mr_barghest_ on X
Gregario Catarino – @gregcatarino1 on X
And the award for one of the sweetest Halloween photos I’ve EVER seen goes to – cutigers-@cutigs1 on X – My heart simply melted into a puddle when I saw this. Still does. :0)
Amy D. Pinterest
Sandy Brower – Pinterest
Artur Luczak
I’m delighted that people are getting into ‘skeleton art,’ and I’m a bit disappointed that they haven’t expanded the creativity and humor into other holidays yet. Maybe one day.
In the meantime, Artur Luczak shows us how a master carves a pumpkin (or two) into works of art.
We usually prep for the winter before the middle of November, just in case. This year, we just came in from a quick trip around the yard to prep for what looks like 4 days in a row, starting tomorrow, of morning freezes!
My husband had a couple of strokes the past couple of years, and sometimes he blanks on how to do things. He’s always been the go-to and fix-it guy who knows how to do everything, so I have relied heavily on his expertise. Now he looks at ME and says, “I don’t know how to turn off the irrigation systems in the well house.” GULP.
I found the paperwork for those in the files, thank goodness, and found it was very straight-forward. We went out there and I did that, showing him what I was doing. We then found the electric heater thingie that sits on the floor out there. It monitors the temperature inside the well house. If it decides it’s too cool, it automatically turns on, making sure the pipes don’t freeze out there. I got that going. My husband wanted to fight with lighting the propane wall heater, but I told him we could wait on that, since we’re only supposed to have 4 days of freezes and then we’re supposed to be back into the 50s and 40s for lows for quite awhile.
We made our way around the yard, unhooking hoses (after I went back into the house and found a set of pliers). I found the styrofoam caps for the faucets and we got those installed. We unhooked the hose from the free-standing faucet that controls water to the garden and got that shut down.
Inside, I propped open the cabinets under the sink in the utility room bathroom and made sure the electric sensor heater we have under there was on. I’ll do the same thing upstairs later under my husband’s master bathroom sink.
We turned on the heater for the house for the first time this season. We’ll do the same upstairs later, if we need to. Otherwise, we’ll just turn OFF the a/c up there! We’re laying a fire in the fireplace in the living room in case it’s needed.
And that should be it.
We’ll do the heavier, more serious winter prep when we see the weather has, indeed, decided we’ll skip fall and go straight to winter.
Time for coffee!
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Source Unknown – Sorry. These costumes would be particularly good on rainy, cold Halloweens, except you’d need a way to free your hands to gather candy and other goodies.
Pinterest – I think I would stay clear of this guy. Isn’t he wonderful? Not clear if this is a costume or a yard decoration. Whichever, I love it.
Pinterest – I think this is SOOOO creative. Might even give you nightmares if you met him on the street…
YouTube.com – I would definitely think twice about trick-or-treating at this house.
“I bought my grandmother a Seeing Eye dog. But he’s a little sadistic. He does impressions of cars screeching to a halt.” ~ Larry Amoros
My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, “Woof!” The other replies, “Moo!”
The dog is perplexed. “Moo? Why did you say, ‘Moo’?” The other dog says, “I’m trying to learn a foreign language.” ~Morey Amsterdam
“A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.” ~ Unknown
“Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.” ~ Dave Barry
“You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”” ~ Dave Barry
“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” ~ Samuel Butler
Peter Hogarth – Artist – Dog Portraits @PeterHogarth55 on X
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ETEP
Quilling is an art that is rapidly changing. The first quilling I saw involved flowers and simple things created with long strips of paper curled up to make designs on things like announcements, greeting cards, etc. I loved them because they were colorful, 2-dimensional, and quite creative.
As I’ve watched, this art is evolving. Now artists are creating super-complicated, 3-dimensionl ‘paintings,’ plus portraits, and now “on-edge” creations that really blow my mind.
Amy Crain creates animal portraits via quilling –
I have no idea how she does this, but I am in awe. I found the images above in an article on MyModernMet.com by Sara Barnes.
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BT – @bikertrash68 on X
Each year I look to see what’s new in pumpkin carving, costumes, and decorations. I found these cute children’s costumes –
All of these children’s Halloween costumes were provided in an article on BoredPanda.com by authors Inga Korolkovaite and Janus Caunt
“Vince” the sign guy, brings up my spirits each time I find more of his puns on the Indian Hills Community welcome sign. Some of them bring a smirk, some a groan, some make me laugh out loud. Always, they lift my spirits that there is some real humor left in the world when I need it so badly from time to time. I’m happy to share some of my ‘therapy’ with you! :0)
Vince Rozmiarek – Vince, The Sign Guy
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blissfulstyle.tumblr.com
We got up early this morning, while it was still dark. Now it’s almost 9am Central time, and it’s STILL dark outside, plus rainy. The forecast is for “rolling downpours” all weekend. I think the weather people decided they were tired of the old forecasts and are coming up with new, “more attention-getting” descriptions.
Seward-Johnson
I’m going to try to use this rainy weekend as the opportunity to spend some serious time in my art room, trying to do enough to decide whether to continue with my glass etching idea for Christmas presents for my friends here or to scrap the project and decide on another. I have to admit I’m intimidated at this point, but I’ll try to concentrate on enjoying the attempt, rather than worrying about the outcome.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend ahead.
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Treehugger
We just got home from Lunch Bunch and errands.
My long-time friend, Linda, was there, with her wonderful daughter, Patty. I got some good hugs and we enjoyed catching up.
My friend Kay and her husband, Bud, weren’t there for the 2nd week in a row. The people at the restaurant were worried, too. Patty checked on the way home. She found out that Kay had lost her wallet and was busy replacing driver’s license, etc. She SAID that she had called David, the restaurant owner, to let him know they wouldn’t be there. Patty left it at that because it was obvious that Kay had INTENDED to call him.
Anyway, everyone is doing well, and that’s the important thing.
We had a really nice lunch, didn’t get rained on, got our errands accomplished, and are home. :0)
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Halloween costume for a boy in a wheelchair – BoredPanda.com – Liucija Adomaite and Justinas Keturka – I think this is ingenious! :0)
Last week my husband and I were stood up at Lunch Bunch. No one called. No one wrote. No one came. We enjoy talking with David, the Pizza Barn owner/cook and our waitress, Mikey, so we still enjoyed our lunch. Still, it would be NICE if our friends let us know when they won’t be there. We’ll see what today brings. At LEAST a nice lunch…
We are right in the oblong bull’s eye for weather starting today. We’re just southeast of Fort Smith on this map in the orange blob. Lots of rain forecast, several cold fronts, 5 possible days of overnight freezes, etc. I’m still hoping we’ll get more ‘fall’ days before we officially start preparing for winter.
Yesterday I vacuumed up an entire dog’s worth of hair from our first floor carpet. I’ve used the ‘defurminator’ on Amber, but that doesn’t seem to make any difference on the amount of hair ending up on our carpet. She won’t allow me to actually vacuum her directly…
I’ll try to do a bit outside if the rain holds off this afternoon. Otherwise, I might actually make it up to my art room!
Enjoy your Friday.
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Maximillian R. – flickr.com
It’s dark, windy, and rainy here today, but not cold. It’s supposed to get up to 80 this afternoon! This looks like the last week we’ll have of the unseasonably warm weather. It may actually freeze here over the weekend, so I’ll get out and get last pictures of our elephant ears.
To give you an idea of size, the “leaf” in the middle lower row is above my head…
Gardening Know How
I need to get serious about starting to ‘put things away’ for the winter with final weeding, trimming, pruning, etc. I’ll cover my raised bed square foot garden planter boxes with tarps for the winter and unhook our watering system for it. I’m not absolutely sure I’ll have a garden out there this coming spring. I’ll make that decision later, but I’ll take care of what I have. We have two planters of the six that need to be rebuilt, but that still leaves four I could plant.
My body is having a pity party this morning because I was scheduled for a massage. My wonderful therapist Lynn Moody 479-629-7601 texted me, saying she had been exposed to Covid and wanting to know if I wanted to reschedule. After waffling for a bit, I decided I didn’t want to expose my husband to whatever I might bring home, so my massage is rescheduled to NEXT week. Even my BODY is having to undergo character-building exercises. :0(
My husband worked hard to change another of our fluorescent fixtures into ones that will accept the new LED tubes. This fixture was 8 feet long, out in the shop. It took him all afternoon to do it, because the gnomes that live with us decided to give him as much trouble as they could devise, but he got it done. I think he has two to go, but those can wait.
He complained of the bedroom being too warm the night before last, so I turned the a/c back on to cool things down before we went up. He took a nice shower and managed to sleep really well last night, catching up for several nights. He just came down, and it’s after 10am. :0)
Enjoy your day!
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Water Works by Sumiyo – Etsy
Good morning! I hope this will be a great day for you.
We’re leaving in just a few minutes for a couple of errands and then plan to have a quiet day after. It rained overnight a bit again and is overcast this morning. The rain is flirting with us so far, rather than giving us the really soaking rain we would welcome, but chances are increasing each day.
Yesterday I thought would be quiet, but we ended up going ahead and shopping at two places for groceries, getting our mail, and then dragging our trash can back up to where it lives after it was EMPTIED by the trash people on the proper day for the first time in three weeks. Being ‘delighted’ that your trash can has been emptied seems like a new low, even for me, but it is what it is. :0) I almost called the nice lady to thank her, but figured she’s probably busy enough without me calling her to waste her time.
I also did a bit of pruning outside, paid our bills, balanced our checkbooks and did a bit of filing. Today I want to do the bookkeeping for September before it’s time for October…
Enjoy your day. I hope the weather is nice where you are and that you have the chance to get outside and enjoy it.
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Chinatown
Night Dene
Andrii Frolov – @kznsq on X
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