[suggestion: play the Mortal Kombat theme song while reading this post]
NOW IT BEGINS!
Time for Alabama to pin the tail on the Tigers over in the spooky spooky romper room they like to call Death Valley.
This is the Saban Bowl. The most one-sided rivalry in all of college football. For Alabama fans, it’s just another SEC West matchup.
For the great unwashed masses of LSU fans, winning this game will be the closest the voodoo capital of North America ever comes to vanquishing a man they schizophrenically refer to as the Antichrist.
More than anything else though…
I wonder what crazy, cockamamie, bordering on insane tactics Les Miles will try to pull this year.
Mike Singletary already used the mind-blowingly Milesian tactic of dropping his pants in the locker room, albeit at halftime, a week ago. Maybe Miles will take it to the XTREEM!!!! and drop his on the sidelines during the game?
I’m sure the faithful LSU horde (of drunken Cajuns) will need something to smile about after Mr. Saban takes his team of +100 Asskicking south this coming weekend and reminds the swamp kitties how a real coach with talented players gets it done.
Thanks to our two small daughters, this time of year becomes a non-stop parade of crowns, magic wands, and taffeta and satin gowns.
Apple of My Eye is always very concerned that I don’t ever have a costume picked out for Halloween. After all, it’s something she spends months carefully deciding. Big stuff when you’re a kid, since it’s a whole ‘nother YEAR before you can dress up again.
So when it came time to carve a pumpkin this year, both Apple of My Eye and Cute as a Button had definite ideas about what they wanted.
AoME doesn’t like scary stuff at all. To the point that she doesn’t even like to think that villains are anything worse than naughty scamps. CaaB is more fearless, but even she prefers fun scary to the scary scary. Altho, it is important to note that CaaB is afraid of neither Cybermen nor Daleks, but is scared of ghosts.
So the choice was obvious…Sleeping Beauty.
Running Antelope took care of the heavy lifting. Namely, the thankless job of scooping out the pumpkin guts and scraping the inside wall of the pumpkin. Yes, she rocks.
Then I got busy with a template and some carving tools. An hour or so later, I had this…
Which is already pretty cool. But NOTHING beats what it looks like with the lights out…
Already looking forward to next year. I’m laying odds it will be Tinkerbell.
Lo and behold, one of my longtime customers is featured in this month’s issue of Guideposts Magazine.
In the story, Saving Moundville, Kristie Taylor talks about what led her, a marine biologist, into a role of not just managing the renovation of Miss Melissa’s Cafe in Moundville, Alabama…but also being involved in local community redevelopment efforts.
As a related promotion, Guideposts and the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce have put together a weekend travel package giveaway for two to come visit West Alabama in mid-November. Best of all, the trip includes tickets to the University of Alabama football game scheduled for November 15th.
And even if you don’t win, you can grab the recipes from Miss Melissa’s, courtesy of Chef Neil Ravenna, from the restaurant’s website, and cook up a little bit of the South on your own.
