FREAKY FRIDAY - Pennywise

I love Stephen King and I really enjoyed IT but I'm not sure I'd be up to see Pennywise lurking around a dark corner, carrying a balloon and stalking me down the street. I don't know, how about you?

If you're wondering what I'm talking about, check out this article here.

What do you think, would you be creeped out if you saw a clown on a corner just hanging around?

Talent Comes in All Sizes

. . . and ages

Halloween Dream

HALLOWEEN DREAM

Ten little witches
on Halloween night,
one zoomed through the air
causing such a fright.

The second one cackled
and held up her sturdy broom
The third one giggled,
as she flew across the room.

The fourth one said,
“Let’s create a little fear.”
The fifth one laughed,
“I’ll make sure the coast is clear.”

The sixth one soared high into the sky.
The seventh one said, “I’m ready now to fly.”
The eighth witch sat beside Ebony, her cat.
The ninth witch cried, “I forgot my favorite hat!”

Jake cried, “That must have been a dream.”

But the tenth little witch yelled,
“Happy Halloween!”

Wordstock Week

Okay so once there was Woodstock but now in Portland, Oregon, we have Wordstock. And if you're a writer, a reader or a bookivore of any sort you might want to spend this weekend at the Convention Center.

If you're interested in reading about the schedule of events, check out this link here.

And you can't beat the price: $9.00 for advance tickets and $11.00 day of show.

Hope to see you there.

Hot Water...

You don't realize how important it is to you...until the heater goes out. Yep, our hot water heater sprung a leak this weekend. So unfortunately, I didn't get much done that I wanted to do. The cleaning I was hoping to have done...nope. The pumpkin carving I was planning...nope. The cleaning out of the closets to donate the coats we don't wear any more...nope. All because we were researching which water heater we wanted to buy and then driving around to look at them and purchasing and ...well, it's a lot to do. Plus, I didn't want to spend all the money to have it installed. So we drained it...ourselves. Yep, that's a lot of work...water's heavy.

Anyway, that was my weekend. How 'bout you? I sure hope you had more fun than we did.

Friday Funnies - these are the jokes my husband sends me

What do you think?

Okay I don't usually whine...much...but last week on Friday night it was my niece's 40th birthday...yeah, I'm old. But anyway, she is a mother of 7...yes, count them, 7 children...but that's not the awe...mazing thing. The amazing thing is that she adopted three children, after having four biological children. She adopted all three because her daughter became friends with the oldest and she and her siblings were taken away from their mother and going to be put in a foster home.

Anyway, that's the kind of woman my niece is. She couldn't stand the thought of the kids being split up . . . so she adopted them all.

And, like I was saying, Friday night was her 40th birthday and her entire family was going to a football game where her son would be playing in his senior game against her old high school.

So, I got an idea. I called the school district and the athletic director/vice principal of the school where the game was being played (the school where my--40 year old--niece and nephew went to high school). I told them the situation, you know, that my niece and nephew had gone to their school back when they were young and they would all be sitting in the bleachers that evening to watch her son play his senior game against their old school and wouldn't it be nice if they could announce "Happy Birthday Nikki" over the loudspeaker at half time...?

I got an email back that said, "No. Their job is to make an entertaining evening for the home team."

They wouldn't wish my niece a happy 40th birthday because her son was playing on the opposing side...
even though it was her alma mater...

Now, what kind of an adult would say that? What kind of community building is that?

I don't know...I was really kind of depressed after that but what do you think?