Halloween 2021

The Early Bird Special

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RDP Saturday: CELEBRATION

When your birthday falls in November and your family knows you live and breathe all things Halloween two great things happen.

First, you get presents before Halloween because you get Halloween decorations for gifts and it wouldn’t make sense to give them to you after Halloween. Second, you get Halloween decorations for presents.

Awesome, right? Well it is.

Behold this years wonderful gift my my son Julio, my daughter-in-law Nicole and my beautiful granddaughter Jemma:

Photo A.M. Moscoso

My granddaughter is three and she made these at her daycare.  Autumn artwork. Fantastic.  As  a side note, if you look to the right of the cat, you’ll see a Cheeto. Jemma’s little cousin Jayde put it in the box when they were packing it up to send to me. My dog, Hamish was over joyed at that. Me too. I love cheetos.

Photo A.M Moscoso

Last year they gave me this gem:

Photo A.M Moscoso

Halloween is fun, birthdays are fun and if you can roll them together it’s heavenly.

The only thing thing cooler than that is to have a Halloween birthday like my Aunt Sharon, but that’s another story for another time

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My Dear Bones- Jemma and my son Julio- his nickname is Bone by the way. I gave him that name.

Yes really. I just couldn’t help myself.

Photoh N. CASEY

Wait-Did You See That?

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Anthonij (Anton) Rudolf Mauve

I’ve been watching some spooky clips from a series called @shortestblockbusters. Shortestblockbuster’s home is on tictok but I still haven’t even figured out snapchat, so I’ve been watching these on youtube.

My techy shortcomings aside, I have to say I’ve enjoyed these clips, some are a little more polished then the others but that really doesn’t matter because in this challenge you have 15 seconds to make someone care about your story and all the bells and whistles in the Universe won’t help you if you don’t hit that chord with your audience.

I think what made these three  so enjoyable for me is that the filmmakers had a focus and they stayed there so after the clip was over you had one single image in your head. Brilliant.

In the first clip, there is a lot going on but the ending made me laugh and want to watch more of these clips so I did.

Halloween is days away and these treats are tasty enough until you can score on THE BIG DAY, so enjoy.

Captain Kirk’s Death Mask

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For Halloween

William Shatner put on his own face  mask and took his daughters trick or treating.

That is awesome on SO many levels.

The Best Night Ever

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RDP Thursday: EUPHORIA

My plastic jack-o-lanterns, the ones with the crooked black smiles

are stuffed with chocolates  shaped like bones and eyeballs

and something called gummi worms

which in my opinion

are not as tasty or interesting as the real thing.

 

My costume is set out on my bed upstairs.

It took me all year  to decide on the perfect costume and it came in the mail just

yesterday.

 

I’m going to be Grandma with a blue wig and wire framed glasses  and my cat is going to

be the  Big Bad Wolf and my dog is

going to be Little Red Riding Hood with bouncy blond curls.

 

I do not think that they like their costumes. When I pulled them out of their packages

and held them up they ran under the dining room table and when I walk by they snap

their heads away from me and my dog jingles his collar and my cat spits.

 

” Where is your Spirit boys? It’s Halloween!” I scolded them.

 

From their temporary home under my dining room table

my dog turns his face away and my cat- who never has a problem with voicing his

disapproval or anger with me says, ” Probably being exorcised by a Priest- as you

very well know.”

 

” We will take care of that later, ” I promise. ” But tonight  it is Halloween and we have

other things to do. Like have fun for starters. “

 

I go to the front door, open it just a crack and I make sure no on is outside.

All clear.

I open the door wider and step out onto  the Halloween welcome mat with the  (REALLY?)

smiling witch ( there is no such creature as a smiling witch, trust me  on this one )

and jump up and down on it.

 

I can hear a the gears that work the trapdoor lock into place and hold.

Oh joy. This is really going to work.

 

I go back in and as I shut the door.

A tingle rushes up and down my spine and my mouth

starts to water.

Euphoria

 bliss,

every single star in the Universe is lining up  for me and my friends under the dining

room table

because

 it is

Halloween at last

and we are ready for-

you.