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.

There can be only one

Maggie, Ben, Lindsey,Lee Ann, and I went down to Winston, Oregon, for the Highlander Games.

Normally, Winston's mascot is the cheetah, however, for one weekend a year the whole city of Winston worships this cut out of a man lifting a log instead.

I think this one actually IS The Highlander.

Apparently the people at the gate (who subsequently took $8 from each of us) forgot to mention that the fair was mostly over and that the Highland Games had ended several hours ago.

Several drunken men in kilts, decide that even though the games were closed they would still throw the log around.

Surprisingly, this is not the most exciting sport to watch.

This was the Grand Prize trophy.

A list of some of the games we had missed.

I believe this band, as well as all bands performing at the Highlander Festival, had "Ye Olde" in their names.

This man had a sheet of linoleum for jigging on.

There were two bands playing at the Highlander Festival. This is one of them.

This may be the other one.

I think this woman was confused and thought it was ren-fair.

Unfortunately, the Highlander festival was not at all like the movie The Highlander.

They were serving haggis though.

The festival did provide a jolly bagpipe player though (bagpipe player is to the left of the frame).

This man with a 4-wheeler was very drunk.

This blurry figure was wearing a pelt and had a large knife.

The man to the right kept going around shouting "There can be only one!"

I don't know if there are laws to prevent drunk 4-wheelin'.