USELESS INFO TUESDAY

~  Experts believe that Marco Polo mistook a rhino for a unicorn during his Asian travels.

~  There are four European Capitals located on the Danube River - Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary; and Belgrade, Serbia.

~  The wingspan (armspan?) of 6-foot-4 swimming sensation Michael Phelps is 6 feet 7 inches.

~  William Shakespeare was the first commoner pictured on a British stamp.  It was in 1964 to commemorate the national Shakespeare Festival as it marked the 400th anniversary of his birth.

~  The mongoose is a natural enemy of the cobra (DUHHH who didn't see Riki Tiki Tavi?).  It is so quick and agile it can bite a cobra on the back of its neck with its powerful jaws before the snake can defend itself.

YES WE DID!

 Who is the best at celebrating Halloween?  WE ARE!  What lengths we will go to in order to please trick-or-treaters!  Yes, we donned costumes this year...can you guess what we were?  This picture is priceless!  TCW as the Tim Man, J BD as the Lion, Btut as Dorothy, L BD as the Wicked Witch and me as the Scare Crow.  We don't know anybody that was "good" enough to be Glenda!  haha  Love my friends.

And, it wouldn't be Halloween without flaming pumpkins!  We really know how to celebrate!

Love L BigDawes in this pic!

ODE TO CUMPKIN PARVING!

There once was a pumpkin carving...





 



....with carvers every where!

 





Rayray, Washaway, Britnanay .....

...Triple T and Big D with big hair.

There were the famous sisters that gut....

...and Rayray's big pumpkin kicking some butt.

J Big Dawes....Pensive....Deep....

...a wonderful cake to eat!

The smoking lounge filled with bad boys...

...and Jenfer sharing her joy!

 L Big Dawes takes the trophy and runs....

...just kidding, she really won!


Had a wonderful time this year.  TCW and Webb Tree Farms did it again for the 6th year in a row!  Thanks to Lisa Tutb, Btut, and Jenfer for being fabulous gutters of the pumpkins, again!  Thanks to KD and Britnaynay for the WONDERFUL cake!  We all braved the cold to spend yet another great year of Pumpkin Carving together.  Good food, good friends, great time!

NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL A CHARITY!

 

We started with some muscle....

...and put them in BRAS!  Yes, it was the second annual bra auction at the brick for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it was a blast!  Btut had a great turnout of many generous people and earned over one thousand dollars! 

Btut, CNBC, and Steeree enjoying the fun.

I think Married enjoyed bidding on Reggie...umm, cough, cough, cough....I mean the bra!

Thanks so much for Britnaynay, KD, and their Mommy, Jenfer!  Y'all were loads of help! 

CNBC and one of the bras she purchased...Can you spot me lurking in the background?  Thought this was funny.

J BigDawes on the bra he won, which happened to be made by his lovely wife.

Thanks to all who came out and participated!  Never a dull moment with my friends!

RANDOM FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

Miniature Blacey performing.  (He is not much bigger than that glass of beer)

It's a bird!  It's a plane!....It's a door frame!

All the cool people were wearing Asics.

Watch BTut's expression in the next three...

"Oh my God!"

"Eeeks!"



(laughing hysterically) "Really!"

Blacey misbehaving!

I always have such a great time with you guys!

Love and Happy Weekend!

GUESS WHO VISITED THE CARPORT...

The Wicked Witch of the West!!

And in case you didn't know......

...she prefers Miller Light!

Happy October!

USELESS INFO

~  Emu eggs are very dark green.

~  World War I rulers King George V of England, Czar Nicholas II of Russia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany were all related.  Queen Victoria was the grandmother of King George and Kaiser Wilhelm, but not of Nicholas.  She was the grandmother of his wife, the Empress Alexandra.  George and Nicholas were cousins through their mothers, who were sisters.

~  When a reptile brumates it is keeping itself in a hibernation-like state during cold weather.  Although it remains awake, its body metabolism slows to a bare minimum and it uses very little energy.

~  The first fully computer-generated full-length feature film was "Toy Story" in 1995, produced by Pixar.

~  Los Angeles was the first city in the U.S. to hire a policewoman with arrest powers, in 1910.  The police department let her design her own uniform.