Frog on the Pumpkin

I posted on his blog.....but Mike over at The Skull & Pumpkin (Public House) blog did a great post about two of my favorite "ghostie" type traditional folk songs .  Head on over there and get a little history lesson on John Barleycorn (must die) and the Unquiet Grave - I do love both those songs. I did mention that my favorite versions, or the ones most played on my iPod are by Robin Laing .  Here are links to both versions that are especially close to my heart. John Barleycorn - Robin Laing The Unquiet Grave - Robin Laing For those of you that are whiskey fans - he has three CDs of songs dedicated exclusively to the "breath o' the land" - The Angel's Share , his first in the set, is my favorite. Thanks to The Skull & Pumpkin   for the cool post.  I am really honored! 

until the last minute right? That is why there are only a little over 30 Home Haunter DVD submissions in right now....right? :) BTW - the last minute came and went, so we extended the deadline to February 15 - see you have more time now!!! I know there is You Tube, and that is great and all but I know you want to see your (and all the other cool) haunts on your big shinny TVs at home. The resolution is way better than You Tube that is for sure :D Husband and I have been handling the awards for the last few years (we did have a partial - sorta/kinda sponsor last year) and we are fine with that. We think they are fun and worth the little bit of cost and time on our end.....because all the really hard work was done by Propmaster, he had to make the DVDs - the least we could do was keep the awards going. Then this year, Prop said he was done making the DVDs - so rather than just killing the project, we decided to pick it up ourselves this year and see if we can keep it going. We ...

at least I think she is my friend.....not so sure anymore :D See, this is exactly why I am afraid of spiders!!! at least I think she is a friend.....not so sure anymore. Don't know how this missed me. The rest of you bloggers must be slacking, becasue I believe you have sent me every other Youtube spider post on the planet. :D

about the Victorians.....they built absolutely beautiful cemeteries.  Here are the last of The Necropolis pictures from Glasgow.  BTW - this place alone is worth the trip to Scotland.  Just saying :) Click the image below to view all my pictures from this cemetery The Necropolis

To book your wedding at The Davis Graveyard for 2011!! This last Halloween night marked the second wedding we have had in the yard.  Who would have thought we would be a wedding destination.  Maybe I should book a booth at the bridal show :D

Random musings and memories on the year that was. Finally getting to see what a "truck load of foam delivered to the house would look like" - A perfect example of be careful what you wish for. Be specific in your wishes. Especially delivery time, delivered at 10:30 at night kinda irritates the neighbors....oh, and I meant that I wanted it for me. Sitting in a castle in Scotland with (the other, not husband) Jeff sitting on a fake throne with a sword in one hand and chain mail on his head looking like he was the happiest person on earth. Watching marathons of QI on Dave TV while on vacation. I know TV on vacation?!?!? We are talking Steven Fry here people....I would watch anything he is involved with. Finding that I have some really cool and super supportive blog friends out there.....thanks for letting me take up way to much of your time and always being so supportive. Meeting the Bloodshed Brothers - realizing that I might have been mistaken to move from SoCal - who...

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Hello Kitty stuff is the pink (and the cute).  Not a big fan of pink.....more of a black and gray kinda girl myself.  And I am a red head and pink just looks stunning on me :D My good friend over at The Babbling Banshee blog knows me and knows very much my dislike for the cute and pink Hello Kitty stuff.  She even made cute and now very famous Hello Kitty Voodoo Dolls for our Halloween party one year. :) So, knowing me like she does she found me the perfect Christmas present. A black Hello Kitty USB mouse.  Now I can actually handle something that is Hello Kitty related.  I have to say, I never thought I would see the day that would happen :D

that Friday the 13 th the Series is my favorite TV series ever.....it is only short hop until I admit that Mr. Fros t is one of my favorite movies ....I guess I have a thing for Jeff Goldblum , cause Powder and The Fly are on my list also. I only have a handful of VHS tapes that I held back in the mass exodus that happened many years ago. (thanks to Johnny for giving me a copy of Fright Night on VHS...you have no idea what that meant to hold a copy in my hands again, no matter the condition, thank you!!) Unfortunately I gave hundreds of them away, many of them are now in the hands of a family member that I...well, we don't talk, .....I am admittedly a difficult person and tend to overcompensate in the most unhelpful ways ... anyway in my moments of lack of self esteem when I thought being nice held some value (the frog queen is an idiot) I gave away a lot of horror VHS videos that I should not have. See, we used to be horror buddies. There are times that I really mis...

take most of the pictures while we are on vacation....I really am a dreadful photographer. :) This is my favorite.  Is of a broken monument in The Necropolis. Not orly is it a great picture.  But I love what it shows.  The decay of the monument to show the structure behind it.  The different types of stones/materials used and how they age. I don't know why, but this is just fascinating to me. Here are a few more "broken" stones from the same cemetery.

About something and it reminded, that I had scanned a few things....but had not posted them yet.  I have a few lovely thank you notes we got this year.  This first one if from the Milwaukie High School Dance Team who do the Thriller number in the driveway for two fundraisers (for the dance team) each year.  We have been doing this for four years now....really?  Four years?!  My time flies when you are having fun. You are welcome ladies.....and "thank you" also!

thinking. Which for anyone who knows me...."thinking".....is truly a happening :D Anyway, have a lot going on. I think, okay I am pretty sure, I have over committed myself. But I am dealing with it. As always, I will work it out. It is just the time between now and then that sucks :) So for a moment I stepped away from my mirror (yes, you bloggers that have let me know that this blog is a bit narcissistic.....I know, I know...but that is another post) and looked around at what else is happening in my world I noticed many things, like I really need to do laundry, finish up more thank you notes, mail out the last of the Xmas gifts.....and wait, what is this? I still have not gotten my Hauntcast subscription set up! (User error on my part)....and it is mid January, I should really take the wreath off the door :D Back to the Hauntcast business. I know I am very late to the party and many of you fantastic and good looking bloggers have done a great job preaching the virtues ...

in life is that people and experience don't  (usually) let you down, your expectations do. So, with that in mind, the only thing that really disappointed me on my last trip was the fact that The Museum of Witchcraft was closed.  One of the main reasons I wanted to go to Cornwall was to visit there.  But it is closed for the winter. Very sad frog queen indeed :( Me, trying not to look too disappointed :( This is the Christian Tea room directly across from it (also closed) I hear in the town that the two have a bit of a rivalry going on....christian against pagan?  Or just good promotion?  Being the cynical marketing person that I am I bet on the latter. So, it is closed because it is closed.....not it's fault.  I was only disappointed because I expected it to be open. Maybe next time. Boscastle is a lovely little town, definitely worth the visit, so even if it is closed, stop by if you are in the area....and have a pint at this...

we should mention Avebury .  Like I said in a previous post, I have been out there way more times than I would like to admit without stopping by.....my mistake. Just like Stonehenge these stone were also buried at one time when the church told them to remove all pagan worship sites.  So instead of breaking them up (many of them were in fact) - which was the instruct, they knocked them over and buried them.  Smart. Well one day a man by the name of Alexander Keiller  decide to resurrect them and went about the process of standing the stones back.  Interesting enough they found the remains of a man when they lifted one of the stones, he had been standing on the wrong side of the stone when they were burring them! Avebury makes Stonehenge seem like a child's toy (it is the oldest stone circle in the world).  In fact it is really hard to take in the magnitude without looking at an aerial photo. It ...

Not usually a post title for someone who has a Halloweenish blog :D Warning....more vacation photos! Here are pictures of the Merry Maiden stone circle in Cornwall .  This was great to see....just sitting in the middle of a field with crops all around it....not a living soul in sight.  I do just love stone circles.  The fact that we do not know why they exist - we have ideas, but no one "knows" for sure - is just fascinating to me.  Have to stop when ever I see one. Frog Queen in Cornwall Using cooper rods to show the ley line that is built on - BTW - these were fun to play with! Lovely are they not.