Wednesday WTF
It is Halloween week, my people. Yea! What a fun week awaits with costumes, pranks, and scary movies. Being a part of Gen X, I can honestly say we grew up with some of the greatest scary movies. One of the all-time best was A Nightmare on Elm Street. Good ol’ Freddy Krueger terrorizing innocent…
Funny story. As I was going through the listing for this week’s column I was reminded of the imagery in the movie Carrie which is pretty intense. I am talking about the original movie with Sissy Spacek. Anyway, when I was done looking at the listing I took my dog out one last time before…
My family has always enjoyed Halloween. When my daughter was really young she insisted on dressing up as a different animal associated with Halloween. The vampire bat costume was easy to make but I still find feathers from when we made her owl costume. It was great but oy vey, all the feathers. It was…
In the Clint Eastwood classic, Magnum Force, Dirty Harry Callahan’s last line of the movie is, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well, that expression is never truer than when you are a homeowner, and the idea of “Hey, we can do this ourselves” creeps into your mind. When my husband and I bought…
True confession time, folks. I love yard art. More specifically, animal yard art. I have, roughly, four-and-a-half pieces of yard art in my front yard. There’s the four-foot-tall, multi-colored rooster named Rodriguez. There’s also Jerry the giraffe riding a tricycle. There’s a flower basket on the back of his tricycle. Then there’s Rainbow the peacock,…
