“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
Today is warm, 71˚. It is a dark, cloudy day, but we aren’t expecting rain. I have a few house things to do like the ever present laundry, and I need to repot a few new plants I bought yesterday, but that’s it for my to do list so the rest of my day can be devoted to lolling about watching cheesy movies on YouTube.
Henry has his Halloween costume, but I’ll have trouble getting it on him as he won’t even let me attach the leash to his collar. Despite that I’m thinking this costume will be well worth the effort. My hope is I can at least one picture of him. His costume is the height of irony. Henry will be a squirrel, a spawn of Satan.
I bought a new fascinator for Halloween. It is all black, has a veil in the front and a black spider across the top. It makes me wish I had a black dress like Morticia Adams always wore.
When I was a kid, I had an old black and white television set in my room. I’d lie in bed and watch. I liked movies most of all. This time of year the old monster movies would be on. I think Dracula scared me the most. That the count wore all black added to the fright as did his gleaming eyes and that cape. Frankenstein’s monster wasn’t all that scary to me. I sort of felt bad for him especially when all the villagers were hunting him. What I remember most about the mummy is the horror of him being wrapped then buried alive, and when the mummy was awakened, his obsession with his princess though I didn’t know the word for it back then. I just knew nothing would stop him from getting to her.
Those old movies never had all the blood, all the gore, that movies have now. They relied on mood, shadows and the imagination to scare us. I still like watching those movies. They are a part of my Halloween.
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October 7, 2018 at 3:02 pm
We had a sunny and warmish day here so we were out on walks several times, I also did the laundry and that was my chore for the day.
I do like those old horror movies too perhaps just because they don’t have all that blood and gore in them. Still I fully enjoyed Deadpool 2 which I watched yesterday and that film really contains blood and gore 🙂 🙂 🙂
Dracula wouldn’t have been scary at all if he wore bright yellow clothes 🙂 🙂 He would also have huge problems moving around unseen in the shadows 🙂 🙂 He was the only one I really thought was scary, the other ones I felt mostly sorry for, they really couldn’t help that they were in the situations they were.
Have a great day!
Christer.
October 7, 2018 at 6:06 pm
Christer,
I think you need to add all those walks to your accomplishments of the day. My laundry still sits by the cellar door.
I haven’t seen either Deadpool movie though I did notice they were an option on one of my movie channels. I’ll have to check them out.
The one I felt the moist sorry for the the poor Werewolf. He was such a sad person because of how he felt about turning into a beast. I would have killed the old Gypsy woman.
Have a great day!
October 7, 2018 at 4:14 pm
Took my daughter to lunch at a Mexican restaurant and then we are spending the afternoon at North Park Mall. It’s 88 degrees and muggy. We had a Groupon for Cinnabon that was expiring so it was a good excuse to go to the mall. While we were eating lunch a rain shower briefly came through. Tomorrow and Tuesday they are forecasting wide spread rain ahead of a cold front. The rest of the week will be cooler and dryer.
October 7, 2018 at 6:22 pm
Bob,
I was just out with the dog, and it is spitting rain, but it is still warmish. The rain doesn’t seem as if will amount to much though.
I can’t remember the last time I had Mexican food. There isn’t really a good Mexican restaurant around. The last good one closed a while back. There are a couple of chains but they are only so so.
We’re going to have warm weather for the next few days.
October 7, 2018 at 5:27 pm
I would love to see a photo of Henry as squirrel. I just hope he doesn’t get an identity crisis and tries to hide in the trees 🙂
October 7, 2018 at 6:31 pm
Birgit,
I just hope I can get him in that outfit. If I do, I’ll take some pictures. I’d love to watch him climb a tree!!