Old McDonald has a grimace.
 Ee-eye, ee-eye OW!

Grab an armful of spider webs. This is the stuff that

you see stuck to bushes and trees until well after

Thanksgiving, which is a good thing.

I like these guys at the Spirit Store.

They look cool in a group.

Only eight more days until Halloween.

Workout costumes?

! ! ! ! It's Witch Day ! ! ! !

 

 You read right Ladies and Gents, it's Witch Day again here

at El Rancho De La Tex. First up is what I am pretty sure is

a witch, from the Spirit Store. If I saw this face in the middle

of the night in my room in the dark, "witch" would be a good

enough description for Tex.

~ A Witch Casts a Spell ~

A while back I posted a photo of my incense burner and a bunch

of little packages of different scented incense. In each package

was a little picture.

 I finally finished that go-round of incense and I scanned all of the

little labels/pictures. I like them because they seem so delicate.

My favorites are the Musk Amber, the Lotus and the Pine. My

my favorite scents are Musk Amber, Lotus, Pine, and Jasmine.

I used to have Jasmine in my backyard and did it ever smell

wonderful on warm summer nights.

I watched Halloween II tonight. Mike never gets old. Although...

he cannot hold a machete (MATCH!-ET!-A!) to my favorite, Jason.

(I cannot tell a lie though. I used this photo last year too. I just didn't

see much of Mr. Myers this year.)

 

And this is just... awkward.

! ! ! ! ! ! Bonus Photo ! ! ! ! ! !

I think he is a football player.

I actually found out that I have Halloween off this

year. We are going to dig in, prepare wonderful snacks

and dips and try to scare ourselves with a couple of movies.

Zombie brain.

Body parts.

*Happy Dance*

Yes, I even love the Halloween Season bags.

He's probably all like, "Great. Now I lose a shoe."

~ Spirit Store Coat Rack ~

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Sure! Go on in! They're dead!

They ain't lied yet!

Would you like ketchup with those? Or is it catsup?

Never sure. I guess it depends on which side of the

tracks you are on. Anyway, this mask is at the

Spirit Halloween store.

I was out and about today, stopped for lunch and sat

by this tree which I found really interesting. I guess I
kind of love trees. A lot of trees anyway.

The "scary" baby collection at the Spirit Halloween

stores have never really grabbed my attention. But

these guys? Babies sewn together at the waist?
They are just plain twisted.

Let's lighten the mood a bit with a squarshed

Napoleon Dynamite mask. Napoleon brightens

any day if'n ya ask me.

Sweet little dolls at the Halloween Express store.

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 Here kitty kitty... Heeeerrrreeee kitty kitty.

All of my comments about this Halloween
costume would be wholly inappropriate.

Fifty percent off? That's pretty darn good considering

there is only twenty-five percent missing.

So if you don't have a family you are left twisting in the

wind? Somebody pass the air freshener because I smell

a lawsuit.

"Oh yeah?! Well take... THIS! Hiiii-YA!"

(The person responsible for posing this costume
at the Halloween Express store should be given a raise.)

It's a good day for entertainment. I missed Edge of Tomorrow

in the theater because I made a bad movie going choice. Now

is my chance to finally see the movie that many say is the best

blockbuster of the summer of 2014.

And Alice, Billion Dollar Babies... I had some of the songs

from this CD, now I have the rest. And my very important man,

Randy Travis, Influences Vol. 2. Been looking for it forever.

Finally found it. I love Randy.

Now THIS says Halloween.

And THIS says.... Actually I'm not sure WHAT this says.

(Both at the Spirit Store.)

 Just a harmless rubber snake. Wouldn't hurt a...

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like looking at something nice today. Here are a few

blankets and rugs and such from the Indian Store. I took

these pictures when we went there last Thursday.

And I did watch Terror Train (1980) tonight starring Jamie Lee
Curtis and Ben (I wonder how he got involved in this) Johnson. Ben
Johnson is a superstar, but in a different genre. Terror Train also
co-stars a young David Copperfield who is neat to watch. I rate this
movie seven out of ten Butcher Knives for what it is: Fun.

"The Old Hippie" costume that looks like

Willie Nelson, who is in fact, an old hippie.

 

Everything I write comes out wrong.

"Oh my poor. cheap. ass. styrofoam. beak. Oh the humiliation.

Oh the dread. I'm doomed I tell ya. Doomed to the clearance

table or... *gulp*, the scrap heap. Oh no. Just oh no."

I'm so sorry that you suck, Mr. Vulture.

Frank: International treaty, all skeletons come from India.
Freddy: No kidding, how come?
Frank: How the hell do I know how come? The important question is,

where do they get all the skeletons with perfect teeth?

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

(Skeletons courtesy of the Spirit Halloween store.)

That's right! Today we kicked off the great 2014 Halloween

Season with our Annual Halloween Store Crawl. I printed out our

itinerary so there would be no time wasted. I also printed out

coupons to make the best use of my hard earned

dollars should the need arise.

First stop was Halloween Express. Pretty fun store. Pictures

to come boys and ghouls.

Second stop, our first Spirit Store. I will post some pictures of

this place during this month also.

Third stop, taking a slight break from the macabre (but just a brief one!),

was the Indian Store. I've posted about this totally great store before.

Always a wonderful visit. But hey..... back to the body parts.

Fourth stop was our second Spirit Store. What the last Spirit didn't have

(or didn't have working), this one did. Another great visit and pictures to

come from this place too.

By this time we had two more stops to make but we were getting hungry,

so we stopped by Tom's for a burger and fries. Fantastic and filling as

usual. I know we have Tom's a lot, it's just kind of a tradition.

By this time it was getting to be about eight p.m. and we had little chance

of making it to the last two stores in time to do any real exploring. We

had been out about nine hours at this point and we decided to call it a day.

We were tired. I was a little sad that we were unable to complete our

day's itinerary, but this is only October Second! There is time.

(The mask above was at the Spirit Store.)

What I picked up today at Halloween Express was this butcher knife. I've

been looking for one of these for a while to go with my Michael Myers

collection and here she is. What a beauty! Check out that plastic steel.

I do really like this all metal zombie outbreak sign I bought at the Spirit Store.

They are big on zombies and Walking Dead and such this year, but they are

sorely lacking in slasher material (my favorite). Jason Voorhees is all but not

there and Michael Myers is not much better. There are a few more Freddy

Krueger things, but very few body parts and skulls. And so much easily

damaged styrofoam stuff now. Hopefully slashers will make a comeback soon.

It was a great and long day. One more for the books and more to come.

Time to break out the annual Jack O' Lantern! The

season is here and everybody at El Rancho De La Tex

is buzzing with anticipation.

Tomorrow we do our Annual Halloween Store Crawl

and we hope to see many new articles of scaredom.

We cannot wait.