Rainy nights & painted rocks

How has your week been?

It's been pretty great here!

Our monsoon finally gave us a lot of rain last night

plenty of thunder rumbling and lightning flashing

it was awesome!

We baked toffee cookies and watched a creepy movie. 

(This movie is rated R and not appropriate for children) 

'Hagazussa'

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Lot's of things happened this week,

we have a new pet.

This is Walter.

He was emaciated, terrified, dehydrated and all alone.

He now has his shots and is set to be fixed in a couple of weeks,

(once he gets to a safer weight)

He's so very sweet..doesn't really know how to play with toys

but is steadily gaining

and learning to navigate in a house full of 

very large cats:) 

We love him so much already.

We went to the grocery store last night and found these!!

I'm so excited to see some more Halloween goodies 

popping up around town!!!

This was at Michael's craft store recently

I'll show you what I actually got there later!

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                                          Helena and I made a painted rock village.. 

complete with a creepy house for the edge of town:)

You can find examples online or

 just make whatever comes to mind.

It was a lot of fun. 

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I think this is it for today, 

but I'll see you very soon💖

 

Halfway to Halloween!

Wow, we are flying through this month!

Do you have any plans for this weekend?

It rained again for us this week..

The water almost came in through the back doors!

We still managed to do some fun things though.

 It felt so festive and chilly outside the day after it rained, that we went to a place called

Donut Parlor to celebrate.

look at this maple bacon donut..I got a vanilla iced coffee  with it:)

Remember the ghost from last week?

I added a little bit of glitter to it..what do you think?

We carved this pumpkin while watching a scary movie..

guess what kind of monster it was about?

That's right..a vampire..

The movie was an old Disney one called

'Mom's got a date with a vampire' 

It's silly but it reminds me of when my girls were little.

The next night we watched Candyman..

Do you remember that one?

 it's based off of an urban legend..like bloody Mary.

You say his name five times..

he appears and ........kills you? 

I don't know, that doesn't sound fun to me..lol

The movie is really good though.

Here's one more we watched...

This one's pretty scary..

 

 

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. 

from Texas to Colorado are terrorized

 after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual. 

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Speaking of the devil,

let's gather together again and try to keep warm..

never mind the stealthy noises you hear beyond the firelight..

One evening I was out in our front yard..setting up some of the decorations for Halloween.

Our young neighbor was there, untangling lights and tinsel..

He loved helping me out because his family did not decorate and it got him out of 

doing homework for a few hours.

We were busy stretching out a couple of the light strands when we noticed how quiet it had it become.

It almost felt like the volume had been turned all the way down

 on a radio that had been on full blast.

 I looked up and said..what happened?  

He put his finger to his lips, to shush me...

It remained quiet for about ten to fifteen seconds,

 then all of a sudden, the dogs, at the very end of the street started barking and howling..

pretty soon all the dogs on our street were carrying on, making a terrible racket.

Then, just as suddenly as it began, it was over..

the normal people/car/street sounds 

were all we could hear.

Again, I asked, What happened?

Louis, my neighbor, said,

"Oh, it's the devil. Haven't you ever heard that before?"

I shook my head slowly..

Allegedly, if you hear lots of dogs going crazy, at night, for no reason (like seeing a cat or something)

it is because the devil is passing through, looking for a soul to

 either inhabit or just terrorize.

When you hear the dog's warning,

you are supposed to stop what you're doing and stay quiet.

I thought it was a chilling little urban legend

creepy, but a bit silly.

 But when I'm outside alone at night and I hear all the dogs barking and howling,

Well, then  it's not so silly anymore.

Well, I'm off..

have a spooky week!!!

Welcome to the first Haunted Humpday in October!

It seems to fly by so quickly..

Did you do anything special yesterday?

The weather here has been wild!!

Hurricane Rosa has brought us rain/flooding and lower temperatures.

I know it's dangerous and many people have needed rescuing ,

but it has been so nice having weather this cool..especially in October!

 Have you watched

 It's on Netflix..
I loved it!
make some popcorn and get cozy under a warm throw!
Here's the trailer...

 I found some more Halloween treats the other night..

This is my absolute favorite cereal of all time..

the fact that they are bat shaped is a total plus!!

I'm not a fan of the glo-balls, but the scary cakes, which are

just cupcakes, are great.

Stopped at Michael's and World Market

for these awesome goodies..

I love this little gift bag..I'm probably going to frame it.

This book is amazing!

The drawings are so vintage looking..

it kinds reminds me of the movie, 

'Meet me in St Louis'

there's a really cute Halloween scene in it.

Ooh, I got a new book of scrapbook paper!

the Halloween paper craft items are 50% off right now at Michael's.

I used a Lisa Kettell Penelope doll embellishment

to create this fun Beetlejuice character.

I added a bun made of wool felting

a construction paper collar and pipe cleaners.

You can find lots of fun things at her etsy shop

and her inspirational Instagram

I stopped at 7-Eleven the other morning 

and found all kinds of Halloween in there!

I want to try the "booger pop"

haha!

Real pumpkins!

I know these are not Halloween, but OMG aren't they cute?

A costume section!?!

 

pretty cool, for a convenience store.

 

A friend of my niece told us this story..

Trisha lived in a very rural area, in Iowa.

When she was much younger and learning to drive

she was warned by her parents

to never, ever pick up hitchhikers, especially after dark.
Especially near the corn field. 

they told her it was bad luck!

This girl..so excited to be driving on her own finally,
agreed to whatever they asked.

Trisha didn't believe their silly superstitions.

She figured once she was out and about on her own, she would do what she wanted.

A few months after getting her license

she was given permission to pick up her cousin and drive to the movie theater

which was about fifteen miles away.
This was a big deal, as it was already getting dark outside.

As they started out, they happened to notice 

a man walking along the side of the road with his thumb out..

feeling mischievous, she stopped near him, her cousin, freaked out and reminded her

about the 'rule'

(her parents had the same one)

Trisha said 

"That's just crap our parents say to scare us..they don't want us giving our friends rides,
 because we'll be wasting gas."

when the man reached the car, she drove forward a few feet, leaving him behind,

keeping an eye on him in the rear view mirror.

He caught up and as he reached out to grasp the door handle,

she did it again.

The man stopped and watched her

but

she gestured to him to come along .

As he reached out again, she floored it and sped out of there as fast as that old

car could go.

Her cousin was very upset by this time and wanted to go home.

Trisha was disappointed, she said she was just trying to have a little fun.
They were going about forty mph at the time.
They heard a loud pounding coming from the back of the car..
Her cousin immediately said
"This is because you stopped for a stranger! this is our bad luck, our tire is blown out!!!!!"
That's when Trisha noticed the man running along side of the car, punching the side..
that was noise they heard.
She slammed her foot on the gas, the car zooming up over sixty.
The man kept up right along the passenger side window
slamming his palm against it.
The girls were both screaming and crying.
His hand and face looked skeletal...
Trisha said she barely noticed when the car stopped speeding and started to slow down.
no matter how hard she pressed her foot down.
All of a sudden, the man was no longer there..he was just, gone.
The car rolled to a stop and they sat in darkness.
She tried to start the car, knowing it was pointless..
When she turned the key and the car started right up, they went straight home.
Trisha told her parents that they had heard the car making a strange noise, so they came home.
It's something that scares her to this day.
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What do you think that was?
If you can believe it, that's not the first time I've heard a story similar to this.
Has anything like this ever happened to you?

Sorry it's so late this week!
I had a problem with the wifi for some reason...maybe the weather??
anyhow, have a wonderfully wicked week!!
see you soon:)