Cultural activity

Hello blue skies. Or maybe we should say pink skies. I think it is time for a new Awesome cam.

There are no grapefruits anywhere. I will have to think of a new fruit to have with breakfast.

I really don't understand peoples aversion to having their pictures taken. I thought we had moved beyond photography stealing ones soul.

This is the Eugene Saturday Market. Note the hula-hooping hippie to the right.

Hippies abound.

This man had a cart filled with rubber chickens. I think he would tell you a joke if you payed him a dollar.

This amazing high school brass band was covering Ozzy Osborne.

Here are Emily and Lexie, again, making faces at the camera.

What hippie festival would be complete without a drum circle.

Here I am at target trying on a festive hat.

If it was aceptable for a man to wear these shoes, I think you know I would.

Someone (not myself) had given this pink panther an erection.

We had deep fried pickles for dinner.

Back in the Burg; we hit the bowling alley.

We had come from Eugene; the land of a thousand hippies, to the bowling alley; the land of a thousand teenagers.

Toward the end of our game; we competed to see who could get the bowling ball the furthest down the lane before it hit the ground.

It's Halloween

I have started making my own belt buckles. This one has an alligator on it.

In case you couldn't tell, I am dressed as Steve Irwin that Crocodile Hunter guy.

This is a scary movie about an evil bong.

I won a bet with Lee Ann, so she had to get me a pumpkin. I tried to get the biggest one I could find. I think this one weighed 75 pounds.

This is Lee Ann's, it was considerably smaller,

We were going to go to Eugene for a corn maze but, much to our surprise, there was one right here in town.

And it was free.

Maybe "maze" was a bit of an over statement. They probably should have called it a corn path.

There weren't actually any dead ends, and if you count the holes people had made in the sides of the maze, you might say it had multiple exits

We found a couple more pumpkins in the pumpkin patch.

Luckily you can buy pumpkins with food stamps.

We carved the pumkins in the front yard.

While drinking beer.

At some point; my neighbors came out with rubber gloves and a large pelt.

Color me confused.

They proceeded to scrape at it with spoons. And somehow produced a very bad smell.

This is one of my pumpkins.

A closeup on it's scary eye.

Here is a leaf themed pumpkin done by Lee Ann.

It was quite adorable.

A vampire pumpkin, that was later stolen by my neighbors.

A can of pickled plums that had been given to Maggie and then were re-given to me. If you have a recipie that involves pickled plums; please let me know.

A very small vampire, also stolen.

Lee Anns pumpkin was quite elaborate.

It involved both glasses and a mustache.

Here are some roasting (or possibly frying) pumpkin seeds.

This picture has nothing to do with Halloween, it's just a picture of some pizza that I microwaved and then it melted.