Here’s hoping that everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
As for the ol’ Turnip household, we’ll be making the quick car ride to the parents for Thanksgiving dinner. I’m charged with making the dessert (chocolate meringue pie) and drinking a few beers, and believe me, I take my charges seriously…
Then it’s off to watch football and then Discovery Channel’s Punkin Chunkin show. Hey, it’s being hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. Pumpkin tossing and the Mythbusters? What’s not to like?
You have a great one. See you back here next week!
I just know that in the near future the local stores will be pimping Christmas on Easter. The sooner the better, right?
Seriously, Walmart?
Karin and I spent this past weekend decorating the house for Halloween, and are busy putting together the menu for our yearly party this coming Saturday. We have the Val Lewton movies queued up to play silently as our background music fills the house, cigars have been purchased, alcoholic beverages are chilling and ready to be served, the lighting effects are set up, and the dry ice is sitting at the ready in the freezer. The front porch is decked out in an eerie spider motif, and the inside of the house looks like an abandoned haunted house replete with spider webs, black roses, skulls, skeletons, and a laser light show…
…don’t all abandoned haunted houses have lasers?
In short, we’re ready to rock this coming weekend!
For the second time in as many years the Easter Bunny has paid us a visit. Apparently suffering from either mange or a terrible case of dandruff, he left a bunny trail wherever he went:
If you look really closely at this pic, you’ll see the remains of a carrot lying in the middle of the street (look for a tiny bit of orange).
Opening our front door we were greeted with a nifty little surprise:
Right on. Free candy! Thank you Easter Bunny.
Clipping from a newspaper, circa 1920:
I find this interesting because Mt. Rubidoux is just a few miles (give or take) from my house. It’s a place I’ve driven past many, many times. I always knew that Easter services were popular, but I wasn’t aware how far back this yearly ritual went. Imagine trying to make your way down this bumpy one-way mountain road in your Model ‘T’ after the sunrise services.
Another interesting thing I discovered while researching this clipping is that Wikipedia has this photo on their Mt. Rubidoux Wiki site. Comparing the cars in the Wiki photo with this newspaper clipping, it became apparent that, if Wikipedia has their dates correct then my newspaper photo is actually from 1913.
Would anybody out there with an affinity for automobiles be able to pinpoint the date from which this photo was actually taken? Call me curious…
