We had a surprisingly light crowd this year, just over a hundred Pirates, Witches, Mass Murderers, and several "I have no idea what you are supposed to be." Kyle was a Toy. Sherriff Woody. Ryan was a defender of the galaxy, a Jedi Knight.
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Well I thought I picked out a clever pattern for this year's pumpkin carving. I found a cute cat face to scribe my gord with.Knoxville, TN - Halls High School - It is said that in the late 1970's a young girl was having a fight with her boyfriend at the top of the stairs by the office when he pushed her and she fell to the bottom of the stairs. He left her to bleed to death. When the boyfriend got nervous, he went back to where he had left her and she wasn't there. No one knew where the girl had went. She was filed under "missing persons" and no one ever found her. One year later on the day of her murder, the boyfriend was on his way home from a party when he was stabbed and killed and left for dead. No weapon was ever recovered nor was anyone ever convicted. It is said that it was his high school girlfriend that came back from the dead to avenge her murder.I went to Central High, but Halls is just down the road. Scary.
Supposedly, many strange things happened in that stairwell that caused the school board to close it up. The doors are locked and it now leads to nowhere cause it has been built up at the top. There are many boxes of storage in there and no student is to be allowed in there at anytime. At night it has been reported that janitors can hear arguing, and sometimes you may even hear something falling down them.
I enjoyed the long awaited sequel to "The Mask of Zorro" (1998) this afternoon. The new film, "The Legend of Zorro", reunites Catherine Zeta-Jones (Douglas?), Antonio Banderas (He was born for this part), and director Martin Campbell.As a combat engineer in the 48th Brigade, Spc. Mathew Gibbs would scout patrol routes in a hulking armored vehicle the Army calls a "buffalo," designed to sniff out bombs before they kill other troops.On August 2, the 21-year-old factory worker called his wife and family in the rural, southwest Georgia town of Ambrose. He'd been assigned to a new duty, manning checkpoints.
The next day, a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives at the checkpoint Gibbs was guarding with two other soldiers.
The Fleetwood mobile home factory in Alma, where Gibbs worked building interior walls, stopped its fast-paced production line for a moment of silence.
Rae Gibbs asked her husband's fellow soldiers to tell all they knew. "They all assured me they didn't even know what was coming and didn't know what hit them."
Before he deployed, Gibbs planned to move his wife and daughters, ages 5 and 3, to a small house on his in-laws' farm. He had the restoration plans drawn up. He'd even picked the color -- bright yellow.
"He should have gotten to college like he planned. He should have gotten to watch his daughters grow up," said Lee Carver, Gibbs' mother-in-law. "He should have gotten to paint that house yellow."
Written By Kent M. Keith in 1968
We went to Oakes Farm today for a hayride and to pick out a pumpkin. The boys had a blast climbing through the tangle of vines hunting for the perfect gourd.
Au revoir

Arrivederci.
Mom returns from
I hope she brought me back Sabrina Ferilli or Isabella Rossellini or Téa Leoni. Hey what's wrong with a souvenir?
Speaking of Téa Leoni, she will be starring next to Jim Carrey in the remake of the 1977 film, Fun with Dick and Jane. (don't click on that unless you have high speed internet)
I am now off to Wally World to buy the things we can't live without. The necessities of life. Mountain Dew for example. And of course the sticky little gooey gummies that my kids consume each night during the latest Power Rangers show before going to bed. Of course they brush their little teeth first.
Asta La Pasta.
Ryan played at the neighbor's house last night so it was just me and little man Kyle. I drug his four and a half foot plastic basketball goal out and we shot hoops together. This was after the fifth time he had asked me to lift him up to the rim of the "big" goal so he could make a basket.