Snapshot - Halloweeeeen Weeeeeek

There is no week quite like Halloween week, is there? Not if ya cram everything essential into a few days... makes it memorable. This is my technique for creating unforgettable memories. Cramming.

There was a downpour scheduled for our trip to the pumpkin patch, which would have created memories, alrighty, but we had a burst of blue sky, which was a vast improvement. We took our time choosing the perfect pumpkin. Bear wouldn't let anyone else push the wheelbarrow, so we didn't know he'd grabbed the one with the flat tire 'til we had him cart all our pumpkins to the roadside stand.

Perfect!

We carved 'em immediately. So we could watch Hunger Games as a family afterwards. Bear & Dash have both read the book and Cam & Trin could hide around the corner for the scary parts and still say "I watched Hunger Games" for social status.

[Having lived in Mexico for a time, I have to preface by saying that we carve pumpkins purely as a traditional family fun event. I didn't grow up with any meaning behind the carving. Every culture has weird traditions that lose meaning over time. I get some funny stories of my sister attempting to decorate with skeletons for The Day of the Dead and getting all squeamish 'cause they look like skeletons to her.

End of serious comment.]

We had specific themes this year... Mine Craft creepers & minions.... What?! (You know that scene in Despicable Me where the kids are, like, "Your cousin started it!" and the minion is, like, "What?" Well, Cool, Man imitates that minion exactly and I crack up every time.)

All Saints Day at our house is Cool, Man's birthday party and we had a rip-roarin' bonfire going on the cake in celebration. Normally I wouldn't post so many pictures of him, but...

Hehehehe

He's taking Bear to a playoff football game, so he won't find out 'til it's too late. :-)

I know there's a lot of people who still don't have power after that "perfect storm" Sandy. We haven't forgotten. We're praying for quick, efficient help everywhere it's needed.

Thx Alice @ At Home with Books for hosting Saturday Snapshot!

Teaser Tuesday, November 1

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

From Mercury Rises by Robert Kroese...

"The point," Tiamat growled through grated teeth, "is to keep building them (ziggurats) until we get it right!"


Her statement was punctuated by a distant rumble of thunder.


"What the hell?" Mercury exclaimed. "I've been trying to get it to thunder for weeks, and now, out of the blue..."


"You've been trying to get it to thunder?"


"A little side project I've been working on," Mercury admitted. "I always thought it would be neat to be able to make a great pronouncement and have it punctuated with thunder. You know something like, 'You shall pay dearly for eating the last chicken dumpling!'"


Thunder rumbled obediently in the distance.


"Oh, I do like that!" Tiamat exclaimed. "Let me try again." She cleared her throat and growled, "I shall cast you and your descendants to twelve generations to your deaths off the top of the highest ziggurat!"


A light drizzle began to fall.                              


This conversations is not chosen entirely randomly... I had to pick something randomly from these two angels chatting over building the Egyptian Pyramids. So far there are three POV's and these two are the funniest. Not that "funny" always wins... but snorking outloud cracks me up, and they got me.  :-)

November 1st is a National Holiday at our house... there is no working, no writing (even tho other NaNoWriMo's started at midnight), no blogging, no NOTHIN' besides the day-long PARTAY!!  As "Cool, Man!" shares his day of birth with us. I should show post the picture of my lunch plate from Salty's on the Columbia River... I chose "Chef's Choice", and it was a work of art!!!!