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And Close Beside It A Shattered Pumpkin

The last of the family photos.

These are from a Halloween Party where I think I was Mr. Uptight (but dressed as Ichabod Crane) and insisted on a series of Traditional "events," such as bobbing for apples and watching the Charlie Brown Halloween Special (seen below on that ugly awful black and white tv in an era of color television [if you zoom in, you can actually see Lucy and some other gal]).

Ichabod Crane, my brother the Skeleton, and Vincent Von Vampire

Me faking contentment.  I probably insisted that my mother capture this moment on film for posterity.

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Donut Holes

Anyone else see Ichabod Crane on the latest Sleepy Hollow episode trying a donut hole for the first time?
We watched it last night and I walked into work thinking that someone in here had better bring a box of those things into the office today.

I almost wrote Heads will roll, but decided against it.



Surely I could have been that person, but if you recall, I'm avoiding the local Dunkin Donuts due to the Pumpkin Syrup Incident, as it's become known in this part of the country.

This Sequestered Glen

Gunpowder

Halloween 2010: Creepshow

And now for something completely different.

Click the image for this year's video slide show of my Haunt which took place over the last couple of months.

Below the image you'll see the button which will take you to my 2010 gallery page. My recommendation is to view the video first and then to view the pics.

Or click here for the youtube video



Did you watch the video?

Halloween 2010

Creepshow

           

New Shop Monsters

The Revenge of Ichabod.
Missing head, oozing neck, reassembled pumpkin,
and a dash of rage.






Pumpkin Hollow.

Ichabod

In the years that passed, Baltus Van Tassel was oft accused of cloaking the truth of the whereabouts of the schoolmaster. The supernatural means by which he was spirited away became favorite lore round the winter evening fire, and the Van Tassels refuted the tales and legends, frequently citing the words of an old farmer who claimed to have once seen Mister Ichabod Crane many years prior. He now resided in a distant part of the country, he claimed, tending to a good life, and even sitting as a justice of the Ten Pound Court.

But Brom Van Brunt, round those same evening fires and in the absence of the family Van Tassel, would tell a contrasting tale. His marriage to Katrina made him privy to more than just the wealth and acreage of her family. With many years, and pints, behind him, the broad-shouldered hero of the country round, confessed dark lore of foul deceptions by the Van Tassels. To protect both the tranquil solitudes of the Hollow and their hearty abundance of farmland wealth, the headless body of the schoolmaster, and the shattered pumpkin found aside his tattered remains, were gathered, coffined, and hidden.

With each telling of the tale, the old country wives maintain that Brom Van Brunt's Herculean frame melted away in the fearful shadows of the crackling wood fire. It was then, they said, that he best resembled the very object of his legend, the lank and languid Ichabod Crane.

Just A Chicken

Ichabod

Neat idea for a prop? The coffined remains of a corpse in school teacher attire, dust and cobwebs. Very old. Headless with a petrified cracked jack o'lantern on its shoulders - with a gaping hole large enough to see that the corpse has been decapitated.

Image source.

Probably the neighboring town found the body, down by the Hudson. And buried him as-is.