Spooktober is upon us!
Thirty-one nights of fun ahead!

All horror, all month!

This isn't the best photo, but I wanted to share

this special pen that a friend brought back for

me from her trip to Peru. It is a handmade
Peruvian Inca llama pen. I think it is really
cool. I never used it. I just want
to keep it like it is.

This is part of a larger photograph that was taken a long

time ago. It was a picture that was taken at a company picnic.

Those were my Winston cigarettes. I don't smoke Winstons

anymore. As a matter of fact, I no longer smoke any

cigarettes and today is my Twenty-Third Smoke Free

Anniversary. No cigarettes for twenty-three years.

And not a day goes by that I don't thank God for another
smoke-free day and another 24 hours without the slightest
desire to smoke.

I say this every year: It is a gift.

Best letter opener ever.

I removed the old plastic skull from my
cactus and replaced it with the new aquarium
skull I bought this week. The old one
was the skull I bought last year.

I think he looks great in there. Once the dirt
settles I am betting that he ages nicely.



I found another spot for the old
plastic skull. Soon I will help him
to settle in a little better.

I bought Evil Dead Burn on Blu-ray. I have all of

the Evil Dead movies and so quite naturally, I had

to add this one to my collection. I hear that it is pretty

good, better than the last one I and like the last one.

This will be the first movie I watch for Spooktober, which,
of course, means...  ALL HORROR, ALL MONTH!

I approve.

It took a while but I finally found the kind of skull

that I REALLY wanted for my cactus pot. This is

actually a skull for an aquarium. A tropical fish tank.

I reckon that if it can last deep in the water in a fish tank,

it will last quite a while (and maybe age nicely)
in my cactus pot.

In the next day or two he will go right where
the other one is now. I plan to bury him a bit
deeper though. Yep. Soon these cactus are
going to  have to go into a bigger home.

A neighbor brought us some strawberries.

They are very good.

Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion,

And really feel the part.

I could stay young and chipper,

And I'd lock it with a zipper...

If I only had a heart.

E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen