BUD & SISSY

~ TEXAS ~

The day our gourd became self-aware.

 A friend of mine went to the SHOT Show in Las Vegas

this year and brought back a few fun things for me. Above

is a really great patch from the Ontario Knife Co.

 

I don't have any of their knives. Not because I don't WANT

one, but because I don't know which one I WANT. I have

had a couple on my Amazon Wish List for years.

Anyway, REALLY nice patch.

One of the other things he brought back for me is this poker

chip from CMC Triggers. CMS makes drop in triggers (upgrades)

for rifles and some pistols. I am not totally familiar with the

product.

The back side.... 

He also brought some great 2019 catalogs for knives,

firearms, holsters and such for me to peruse. Thanks

so much for thinking about me again this year my friend.

"The Exorcist III" played at Borden Cinema tonight.

If you have ever seen The Exorcist III you no doubt

have seen... "that scene". If you have never seen The

Exorcist III, it is worth watching if for nothing else

than experiencing... "that scene".

I think this movie is pretty darn scary, and GOOD.

Lots of fun things to look out for, but for this movie I will

say, Fun Thing To Look Out For: The Dream Blind Man.

(Yes, that is a young Brad Dourif onscreen,

and as usual, he is really great.)

 

On Tuesday, January 15 I bought my own copy of

Halloween 2018. That is the latest Halloween movie.

John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis teamed up again.

A Halloween movie dream come true.

Tonight I watched it and I enjoyed it even more than

when I saw it in the theater. It is fun finding the Easter

Eggs and doggone it, most of the characters save for one

("I got peanut butter on my penis!") I really like and care

about. That is slightly rare. I cannot rate it yet. I have

to watch it again. Loved Will Patton.

Pictured above is my McFarlane Toys Movie Maniacs

Series 2 Michael Myers figure. This is one of the first figures

I ever bought. Got him probably sometime before the year

2000. And believe me, that was another life. WAY another.

Anyway, okay figure. GREAT Halloween 2018 movie.

Fun To Look For: P.J. Soles.

I bought this steer skull Christmas ornament clearance

priced for about two dollars or something like that. To

me though it is a year round hanger arounder. And it will.

Nope. We are done with this.

 I don't know.... Maybe it is because we have not seen much

rain around here lately that I am all about the water pictures,

but I have another "rain still not evaporated completely" photo.

It looks... refreshing to me. For some reason I left

this photo its original size. I have never done that before.

Some leftover rain.

 

Rainy day. We had another rock slide on our

road today, or during the night, or whenever. This

one was real small. I hope I never get hit by a boulder.

Yes, I had McDonald's in the rain. I ate it pretty gingerly

though. With all of the dental work I have had done

lately it is kind of tricky to dodge all of the sore spots.

For the last few years around my birthday I have visited

Comics-N-Stuff and if I am lucky I find a little something

in the bin of small miscellaneous used items.

This year I found a little X-34 Landspeeder that belonged to

Luke Skywalker. I didn't know until I got it home and

opened it that when you put it down and pull it backwards

the wheels will wind up and if you let it go the thing

will go FLYING (across the table)!

The awesome back view.

It was evidently made for Burger King kid's meals in 2005.

 

 It looks fun along with a few other things that I have found

on birthdays past. The Millennium Falcon is my favorite.

Halloween 2018 was released on Blu-ray today so I got up

bright and early to buy my very own copy. I will be watching

it again very soon.

 

I took this picture in the parking lot of my dentist. I was waiting

to go into an appointment for the pulling of another tooth. That is

one a week for three weeks now if I remember right. It is all becoming

a big haze. I hope that this will be the last tooth pulled until about three

or four weeks from now. My dentist is trying to get me to have my final

wisdom tooth removed. Ack. $$$$.

 

Anyway.... Halloween 2018... Hoorah!!!!!

~ DOUBLE TAP ~

Which is against the rules (for civilians) at

most of the ranges I have been to.

When I went to the mall I had a Wetzel's Pretzel.

I had not had one for a year and it was dang good.

It was a pepperoni/jalapeno pretzel. And what made

it taste even better was the fact that it was free. When

you download the Wetzel's Pretzels app to your phone, you are

automatically rewarded a free pretzel. And after you purchase

six pretzels? Another free one. So I have something to look

forward to in six years. Thug life, man.

The Regal Theater where I saw the movie "Passengers"

two years ago. No movie today though.

As a follow up to yesterday's post:
A closer-up of Santa's large ornaments.
Impressive.

Sorry Kids! Santa is GONE. It is over.

By the way... When Santa's trees are

too tall? His contract with the mall

says, "You gotta drill a hole."

I made a trip to Boot Barn and bought a 

Carhartt Hat that I really needed...

...and also whatever this thing is.

Whenever I see this (which is not often) sitting on the

counter, in the back off my mind I am just assuming that

somebody is enjoying a glass of eggnog. 

Hours later when the glass is still there, I realize it is

.... a candle. It has fooled me about three times now.

It won't do it again. One of my

Life Goals is to ensure that it doesn't.

I had to leave and didn't have time to see just how much

more this thing would curl up so I broke it off and left.

 I went to see "The Mule" starring Clint Eastwood.

Happy New Year 2019 from the

folks at El Rancho De La Tex.

The last day of 2018 is proving to be a slightly wet one,

which is always good for 'ol California. And

it's been a heck of a year, hasn't it?

A Jimi Hendrix poster I earned selling magazine 

subscriptions when I was in the seventh grade.

I wasn't too experienced then, but I started

becoming experienced shortly thereafter.

Just a (real) short. Cooking up a few taters.

The payoff.

My son made sure that it snowed every night at

El Rancho De La Tex during November and December.

 

Well, I had another tooth pulled today. This one hurt quite a bit

afterwards, but it is a good kind of hurt as it is resolving an issue

that has given me a lot of pain for the last nine days.

Look at all that gauze. I think I was suppose to bleed a lot.

I go back in five days to have the stitches removed.

A better picture of the beautiful

Christmas tree in my dentist's office.

 

~ Merry Christmas 2018 from Lizzy Tex Borden ~

Santa, stop here.

On the way home from work last night one of

my teeth felt kind of funny. Today it was pulled.

That was WAY out of the blue.

The Christmas tree in my dentist's office.

 

"Citizen! There is nowhere to run. Please immediately

return to the store with the stolen merchandise. An

officer will be waiting for you. Failure to comply

will result in physical intervention.

I repeat: Citizen!..."

Chucky and Tiffany hanging out in a box.

 

Damn.

It's Mission Impossible Day here at The Ranch!

I had seen "Mission Impossible: Fallout" at the

theater and KNEW I was going to buy the Blu-ray

when it was released.... and I did. This is the sixth

Mission in the series and it does not let down.

The booklet is small enough to fit in the Blu-ray case

and is ten pages (including the cover and back). It

has photos of some of the stunts and descriptive

quotes about them. One of them says that Tom Cruise

learned to fly a helicopter just for this movie. I didn't

know that this little booklet came with the movie so it

was a pleasant little surprise.

I watched the movie again and it was great fun the

second time around. I rate this movie nine out of

ten Broken Ankles.

 I went to the movies on this rainy day. All of my Regal

Crown Club points are set to expire next month. I need

to go to a few movies so they are not wasted.

The "Possession of Hannah Grace". Bad choice. Bad bad choice.

I think they were banking on yet another girl who could contort her

body while they added some bone cracking noises to make this movie

scary. It did not work. Went nowhere. I've seen worse. But.... If you

want to see this movie, wait until it shows up in the $3.74 bin at

Walmart. Because it will. I rate this movie 4.5 out of 10 Xanax.

A little rain.