i’m outside writing. most of the halloween decorations have been taken down. we took the dogs for a long walk. i haven’t ONLY eaten halloween candy thus far today; i also had some pancakes.
here’s ralph shank, who i had never met till friday night. i’ve seen him in plays before, and he seems like a nice guy. like randy, he also had two costumes. the other one is underneath this one and he seemed hesitant to reveal it. before he left, though, he did.
keith, always scary, dancing out on the screened porch.
here’s keith with his mask off, kind of looking like a heroin addict. it’s also funny because keith is bald in real life.
fran, who was canadian bacon. i thought that was funny.
kevin with ron who had the piercings all over his face. one of ron’s horns fell off. that’s what happens when you get your horns and piercings for only four bucks at wal mart.
randy in his second “boring” (in his words) costume with steve. or as randy likes to call him, “dr. steve.” dr. steve won one of the two sexiest costume awards.
here’s selina, the other “sexiest costume” winner. i wish you could see her big red platform boots. she’s with cory, who i’d also never met before. i love this photo because there in back of them is jim the hippie, and in back of him is john mccain.
AMY! queen of the party! with randy, who was looking like he was in lots of pain. it’s funny, but i think amy made this face every time anybody took her picture. she wore something kind of similiar a couple of years ago and made that exact face. i’ll have to find that photo and put it up here.
here it is, from halloween 2006. jim, randy and amy.
but i digress. moving on with this year’s photos and there are SO MANY of them…
see? she can’t stop making that face. i don’t know if you can see that i’m wearing my barack obama pin. so i’m a barack obama spring chicken.
HERE’S the grand prize costume winner! dad came in wielding that big cleaver, swingining it menacingly at people, nibbling on his big plastic rat. very very funny. you can see where amy gets her sense of the
and here’s me and amy with mom and dad. mom won the people’s choice grand prize, but like i wrote before, she and dad snuck out before they could get their prestigious awards. mom was a fortune teller, and had spent months collecting fortunes whenever she went to chinese restaurants. they’re pinned all over the front of her shawl.
one of my favorite photos – the triumverate of palins plus john. eric was the last palin to arrive. it’d threatened that i was going to make he stay outside if she dressed as palin, but since there were so many of them, it was funny. amy said that in seeing them she wanted to do all their hair so it would look like palin’s hair really is.
this is also one of my favorite photos. linda and bill; she was nurse rached and he was…a guy drinking beer out of one of those things you pee in. i love it that linda looks dead serious here and bill just looks crazy.
can you tell that this man has only about 13 more days left till he gets to retire? yeah, he’s pretty happy all the time. not that he wasn’t happy before. note the banana in his holster. a nice touch.
captain underpants! my my. ralph finally felt comfortable enough to reveal all.
here’s chuck and his wife heather. he’s a scottish version of the green…hornet? i think. he should have won “most obscure.” very funny.
jasmin and kim. i LOVE the green pom poms on jasmin’s headdress. kim’s is also cool. also their makeup was great. amy tried to get me to wear yellow makeup and i did try it but then i decided it was horrible.
GEE that’s a lot of photos, and i’m not even done. there are still several more, but i really have to stop doing this now. more later.
ok then,
sunday afternoon grace SITTING HERE OUTSIDE and it’s 74 degrees which is SO CRAZY AND FABULOUS!