Skeletons Worth Driving For?

About two weeks ago Laura & I were driving down to Jackson to help in my parents move. It was late and we were tired but we remember passing this insane Halloween display, something like a skeleton cheerleader pyramid. It was all a bit of a blur but I really wanted to see it again. So I drove, not really knowing where it was exactly but knowing how to get back down to my parents house. Luckily it wasn't all that far from where I needed to be and I took a few shots.

Worth the ride? Eh, yeah I think so. It sucks I had to see it in daylight. The thing looked alot more sinister in the dark, as you can imagine. Should've taken a photo first time but it kinda freaked us out. Where'd they get all them skeletons anyhow?

Hallowe'regonnabewet

Not a good sign...

The Mouth Alone Took An Hour

We decorate our tree on Christmas Eve. We carve our pumpkin on Halloween Eve. We won't be participating in any dishing out of candies tho, as we will be neck deep in pageantry at J. Birney Crum. That's fine tho, considering how we got pillaged by a group of teenagers in costumes of questionable effort last year. Ripped jeans are not a costume, unless everyday is Halloween. What kids'll do for a mini Snickers. Oh glorious Halloween.

So we carved. The innards always make for a good photo.



Laura froze them so over the next year she can add pumpkin to every meal. I can't wait for pumpkin spaghetti, pumpkin pancakes, and pumpkin seed sandwich on rye with mayonnaise. Sorry Miracle Whip. Mmmmmmm.

This little kitten pretty much named herself last night when she decided to exhibit her insatiable appetite for anything pumpkin.

We couldn't keep her away. So she will known as Peterpeter. We'll see if that sticks.

And now, without any further ado... our Halloween Travis-&-Laura-O-Lantern for the '09.

I don't really even remember carving it. I must've been in the zone. Here's a few closeup shots, enlarged to show detail.

Awesome, I know right.

Happy Halloween!

The Scary Kids I Teach

The scary part is that this is not too far from how they look everyday of the year.

Hiking A Mystical Wood

We did it again. Stumbled upon a mysteriously fantastic little secret wood that is, seemingly untouched/unseen by human hands/eyes for quite some time. I'm not sure how it happened. I remember "Hey what's that over there?" but I don't even remember who said it. It must've been one of us, right?

Then we took in the view along a lake

Mixtape> 10.18 thru 10.29

Might As Well Burn To Your Fancy

1. Do Make Say Think - Say
2. Ani DiFranco - Swandive
3. Drummer - Lottery Dust
4. **** Buttons - Rough Steez
5. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers
6. The Horrors - Three Decades
7. Atlas Sound - Walkabout
8. Kings Of Convenience - Boat Behind
9. Shannon Stephens - I Don't Want To Go
10. The Long Lost - The Art Of Kissing
11. Rage Against The Machine - Without A Face
12. The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'
13. XTC - That's Really Super, Supergirl
14. The Middle East - Tsietsi
15. The Antlers - Wake
16. The Most Serene Republic - All Of One Is The Other
17. Former Ghosts - Dreams
18. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
19. Animal Hospital - And Ever...
20. Panther - Control Yr Ships
21. Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Daniel {Elton John cover}
22. Monomen - Drum Of Glass
23. Minus The Bear - I Lost All My Money At The Cock Fights
24. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
25. The Most Serene Republic - Catharsis Boo
26. British Sea Power - Carrion
    
27. Robert Post - Beirut
28. Kid Harpoon - Stealing Cars
29. Erin McKeown - Santa Cruz
30. Our Book And The Authors - Kids
31. Devendra Banhart - Rats
    

Keep Blowing

Wow this is neat!



Oh! And I thought the corner would be safe.

We Believe The Pumpkin Picks You

Today was our annual pumpkin picking. I'm sure everyone else in the world got their pumpkins back in say, uhm, August, but Laura & I choose to celebrate holidays as close to their actual dates as possible. Crazy I know. Plus we didn't realize Halloween was this Saturday until say, uhm, yesterday. So off to the patch!

Supporting local markets...


where they have ghosts...


and thirsty skeletons...


and this?


This one is too small.


This one is too stemmy.


Laura found this one just right!


We'll let ya know how it turns out.

You're Kissing Chase Utley And That's It

Only caught a few innings of the game last night due to rehearsal, driving thru woods with no station reception and then falling asleep, but I did manage to catch both of Chase Utley's homeruns. That's just ridiculous. I will admit I was pulling for the Yankees as of gametime last night, but after last night's game, YIKES! Good luck Yankee fans. They looked bad, and if you ask me, they blew their only shot at an easy win. So the Mets fan in me dies a little today when I say, man Chase Utley and the Phillies are a good team.

The Apocalypse Wuz Here

Man yesterday was crazy. My one school had to cancel rehearsal because over half the kids were out with that swine flu, then my other school had to shut down half the building because a mersa strain of staph broke out. Add to that the rain that's been falling for almost three days straight and the fact that Shoprite no longer sells Archway cookies.... the world is definitely over.

Home's Naps Goods

There could be worse places to have to wait for her to get off work...

I Love Mornings Like This

to go away and not look back

and think of what the others say

to go ahead and change your life

without regard to what they said

and everyone must do the same

you find yourself - you must, again

the better things you left behind

but looking back you may go blind

what did you want see

what did you want to be

when you grew up