Happy Halloween!

 {Cue the scary music...} Look out, Tallulah Mae!

 There is a disembodied hand coming for you! Spoooooky....

 Um...

 You're not scared?

 You are in fact bored?

 You say it is a mannequin hand and you really wish I'd stop bothering you with this tomfoolery?

OK...sorry, go about your business.

Happy Halloween, from me and Miss Tallulah Mae!

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Mommy's little helper...gets a reward at the end! (Who doesn't like to lick the beaters?)

Dead Pan

Before and after: the annual baking of Pan de Muertos, or bread of the dead (for Dia de los Muertos on Sunday). This bread is quite delicious, and every time I make it I tell myself to bake it more often than once a year. Maybe this year I'll remember!

Little Lizardo

Remember the grande lizard I last posted about?

Here is a teeny-tiny one hanging about. He is lacking a tail...and he is a bit weird--he lets me stroke him before he skitters off, and he is constantly lounging on the back steps (so I have to REALLY watch where I step!).

Frownies

Ah, if only it were so easy: "Here, stick a piece of paper on your face and all of your wrinkles will magically disappear!" These ladies don't look too happy about it, do they?

I Heart Chickens, Chapter Ninety-Seven

Chickens. I love them. That is all.

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

Here is Tallulah Mae trying to hypnotize us with her shiny lower dog lip: "You are getting sleepy AND you want to give the dog some watermelon. Waaaaatermellllonnnn...."

Orange and Yellow

These lovely yellow and orange--candy corn!--tulips complement our Halloween display. I love them when they flop open and you can see the interior loveliness.

Every year these make me smile. It's getting very hard to find/afford the vintage paper pulp pumpkins, alas...lots of fakes out there, or if they are not fake, they cost a LOT; these are a mix of vintage and modern repros (NOT made in China, for the most part). I'm glad we found the ones we did when we did. One day I hope to find a box of them at an estate sale!

Snippets from the Garden

The fall/winter roses are usually a bit nicer than the summer ones--there seem to be few insects nibbling on them, for one thing. This is a beauty!

And it's always a good estate sale when a new galvanized watering can comes home with me (for a reasonable price--I'm a cheapskate, y'all!). Amazingly, of the nine I have, no two are exactly the same.

Now that it is not a million degrees outside, as it was ALL summer, I hope to enjoy the garden...it's been newly replanted! More on that later...

Lounge Lizard

This is a rather hefty (and long) fellow--and I saw a teeny-tiny one today that is about as long as one leg on this dude/dudette. Love the lizards!

Sky Glider

Nothing quite like a raptor floating overhead...simply gorgeous. This is a hawk, either a Cooper's or redtail.

(This should have been Monday's blog post but it wouldn't publish last night, for some irritating reason...so you'll get two from me today.)

Tallulah-Palooza Friday

An afternoon nap interrupted, as demonstrated by Miss Tallulah Mae. Carry on, Miss Mae, carry on!