27.10.21

Happy Halloween!

 Putting up the Halloween Tree is always a problem when the cats want to help out.



22.10.21

Scary Duck

 The tradition [Halloween] originated with ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

--history.com



21.10.21

Blue Moon

 Blue Moon,

You knew just what I was there for

You heard me saying a prayer for

Someone I really could care for...wah wah wah waaah....

--Hermes, Groen



20.10.21

Priorities

Eating chocolate may help lower cholesterol levels, help prevent cognitive decline and reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems.

--Reported with caveats in Medical News Today.



18.10.21

How a Hockey Player Saved the World

 Puzzled by this strange request, the alien captain halted the invasion so that he could check out a hockey game. The sight of so many Earthlings in funny costumes bashing each other on a slab of frozen water horrified him, and he fled the scene with his armada. He spent the rest of his life contemplating multi-flanged Zinderbats in a globular vootaboo.




15.10.21

The Great Pumpkin's Cat

Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. 

--Linus in It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz



14.10.21

Halloween Lights

 No one told the owl and the pussycat about the lighthouse on the land where the Bong-Tree grows.



13.10.21

Pavane for a Defunct Pumpkin

Farewell, O fragrant pumpkin pie!

Dyspeptic pork, adieu!

Though to the college halls I hie 

On field of battle though I die, my latest sob, my latest sigh

shall be wafted to you!

--Telgmann, Cameron "Farewell O fragrant pumpkin pie!"




11.10.21

Pumpkin Train

 In the old days, when pumpkins supplied most of the world's energy, no one thought of eating them.



6.10.21

Flight School

It's essential the young of the species learn to fly before migration season starts.