Pumpkin carving

The wife and I have had another successful year of pumpkin carving.



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Onto a million

Posted a new set of Calvin and Hobbes pendants to my etsy store this morning. So help me reach my goal of making a million billion dollars by supporting my shop DESULTORIOUS



















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Oddities this morning

As we get closer to halloween I am noticing more oddities on my street and even in my yard. This morning on my walk for example I saw a snake, mouse and squirrel, but all of them were dead and within 10 feet of each-other. Mass suicide I thought to myself. Have the woodland creatures of my area made some unholy pact.

Then in my own yard I noticed that some of those very same woodland fuzzies had been eating the inanimate objects. For example






One of the bird feeders had the perches chewed off. Why would they do that? Are they missing vitamin-P (aka plastic) in their diet.

Then there was this interesting find



A frog statue that sits in one of our flower beds had its eyes gnawed off. What does it mean? Should I be alarmed? Should I call the ghostbusters?



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Odd decor

My wife and I went out to dinner with my mother-in-law on Friday. We went to a little Vietnamese place we had been to about a dozen times, but for the first time I found myself needing to use the restroom. It was your basic small restaurant in a strip mall bathroom. You know toilet, sink, air freshener and employees must wash their hands sign. What I took notice of though was the border wallpaper, a bass fishing motif. Not exactly reminiscent of distant lands.






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Inappropriate munching

I spent part of my day at the hospital waiting for father-in-law to have a procedure. After sitting for a while my wife and I went downstairs for some nourishment. We came back to the heart Cather lab waiting room with a Philly cheesesteak and cheese fries.



I know it is so wrong but it tastes so right. I could overlook the irony of eating artery clogging food in the exact place where I may return one day return to have my arteries unclogged, but eating in the war-zone of bacteria should have been a little more concerning to me.

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More new etsy merchandise

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Why a timer?

I love James Bond and other similar type movies and stories, but why do the evil genius' always use timers. Just launch the middle or laser or whatever method of mass destruction and chaos you have chosen. Don't give someone a chance to foil your plans. Just a thought.


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Droppin the knowledge

Time to drop some more of my mad knowledge skills on ya'll

-the largest private collection of moles was once owned by col. Sanders

-it is illegal in 7 states to pickle eggs

-if you add up the length of each toe it will equal the length of the foot

-the academy award has never been presented to a movie with the words gnome, beaver or cheese in the title.

-the "meep meep" sound the road runner makes is actually the pet name the animator had for his wife

-while pine is the most popular car freshener scent, mackerel is number 5

-17% of Americans believe that groover is the third most common name in the world

-hairspray was once banned in several countries at as being a form of voodoo

-the most requested snack food of White House residents is pumpkin seeds

-the apple corporation had to get special permission from Thomas Edison's estate to use the term "iPod" as Edison had made a device called the iPod that sliced pickles

-president Cleveland had an addiction to bratwurst.




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New etsy pendants

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Fall dinner

A rainy day and drop in temperature led paige and I to make soup for dinner. We decided on a new recipe for bacon, potato and pea soup.












Definitely turned out to be a keeper recipe. Now back to Sunday night football.


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Mmmm old friends

I had a craving this morning. Sure it's not on my diet but mmmmm.






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Laundry factoids

So I was just folding some laundry and it occurred to me that I have never imparted any of my laundry knowledge on you all. No time like the present.

-while the northern hemisphere is on a quest for whiter whites the Southern Hemisphere desires blacker blacks

-the king of Sweden once banned all laundry detergent for fear of bubbles in his briefs

-there is no proper ratio of laundry to detergent and anyone who tells you different is a fraud

-the first washer/dryer stackable combo was I stalled in the White House in 1978 and still operates to this day

-75% of men will admit to wearing dirty underwear to work while woman believe that number to be closer to 87%

-there are only 2 known cultures that do not wash their clothes

-before becoming president Chester Arthur did laundry for his neighbors for extra money

-the word "calgoning" for sexual attraction to laundry was coined by the podcast team of Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbott on their "morning stream" podcast.

-early ingredients of laundry detergents included lard, powdered beaver lung, corn silk, goat spit and magnesium pumgunate

-1/2 of all laundry is done after 11pm

-the word laundry comes from the French word "luandrioux" which means to beat furs against a rock

-companies that at one time made laundry detergent include bp, nabisco, Chevrolet and McDonalds.

-the world record for having the whitest whites is held by the pope Alexander VI


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You know who?

So I went lazy this afternoon, but hey it was my first day off in seven days. Well I parked my posterior on the couch and did some channel surfing. I ended up watching a bunch of episodes of "pawn stars," a show I've watched for a while but have always had one problem with. I enjoy watching the random stuff people bring in to sell, but find it bothersome the people Rick knows as experts. Half the items brought in he "has a buddy" he would like to call or "knows a guy" who knows everything about something. Guy walks in with a sculpture, he knows a guy who is an expert on sculptures of eastern european blind artist. Girl walks in with a shirt with a blood stain, he's got a buddy who can identify it as the shirt John Wilkes booth was wearing. You don't know what you have he has a friend who identifies it as a device for checking horse's rectums. Where does he hang out that he meets all these people? I have got to get an invite to that party.


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Back home

I spent the morning of my day off today moving the birdies back from the condo to the house. How hard can that be you say? Well when two little parakeets have a cage that stands almost 5 foot tall and 3 foot wide with a special table for it to fit on, it takes a while.



Now to get them to stop squawking so I can take a nap. Where is that squirt gun? Just kidding.

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