The Bow Belle

It's finally here!  My mom's favorite holiday, and admittedly one of my favorites as well.  I've had a lot of nice bows to wear for Halloween, but for the actual day I wanted something over the top.  Etsy shop is CherylsBowtasticBows , and they did not disappoint. Nothing much to say today, 'cause I've said everything I possibly can about Halloween over the past month.  May your Halloween be a safe one and a fun one! Trick or treat, RagingMoon1987

I'm taking a quick breather from Halloween bows to celebrate another birthday, the birthday of someone I never knew but thought was cool.  Tomorrow would've been Bob Ross's birthday, but tomorrow is Sunday and I rarely have reason to wear a hair bow on Sundays.  Some of y'all may have heard of Bob Ross, the soft-spoken painter on PBS with a gravity-defying hairstyle who threw together painted landscapes in half an hour.  Believe it or not, I have a bow dedicated to him. Etsy shop is RoxysBowtiqueShop , the same shop that did my Beatles and Led Zeppelin bows ( May 26th and August 19th , respectively).  Why they chose to put together a bow devoted to Bob Ross I'll never know, but I won't knock it.  Mr. Ross has been dead since the mid-nineties, but I think every now and then PBS still shows his program.  The calming subject matter and Mr. Ross's soft voice make for a very soothing watch, but I'll admit that like all PBS shows it's not for everyone.  M...

Presenting the one and only!  Etsy shop is AbbeysAlley . Dumbo was released around this time in 1941, and oh, do I freaking love Dumbo .  My family loved Disney movies, and as I've mentioned before my dad loved elephants, so Dumbo was kinda special for all of us.  I also loved the idea of a huge animal like an elephant flying, absurd as it was.  Hey, in the Land of Make-Believe anything is possible!  Like a great many Disney movies Dumbo can make one weep great tears of sorrow, but that makes his triumph in the end all the more delicious.  I love it. Wouldn't y'all know, my two favorite parts of the movie " Song of the Roustabouts " and " When I See an Elephant Fly " are nowadays perceived as racist.  I think the public's main beef with "Roustabouts" is at the very end of the song when a hypothetical shirker is called "you hairy ape," which I think is kinda dumb.  To me it's no worse (or better) than calling someone a moron...

As Halloween approaches, my bows get more over-the-top.  Which is what I wanted, LOL. This bow makes me giggle for another reason, as the green parts are almost the exact same color as the green screen that actors and meteorologists work with.  When bad weather is afoot Mama and I turn to YouTube meteorologist Ryan Hall and...I think he calls his bunch the Y'all Squad.  One of the squad's members is a guy named Andy Hill (LOL, Hall and Hill).  Andy has a small gay pride flag on his desk behind him, and I don't know if he's ever been told this, but the green stripe on the flag acts as a tiny green screen!  It's hilarious to watch.  Anyway, now you know why your local meteorologist never wears green.  No secret, really, and probably just about everyone already knows, but I needed something to talk about! There was one year when my family's jack o'lanterns glowed green, LOL.  It had been very dry, so instead of lighting our jack o'lanterns with candl...

A few weeks ago I ordered a trio of bows from AbbeysAlley , one of which will make its debut in a few days' time.  When I opened up the package I found not three bows, but four.  This is the extra bow. Black cats!  LOL, I've extolled the virtues of black cats before, but all I had on that day was a plain black bow .  Now I've got a bow that actually has black cats on it!  It's sadly one that I can only drag out during Halloween, but I'm still glad to have it! This morning Mama and I learned that Sammy, the little black cat that was hanging around our place earlier in the fall, does not belong to our neighbors or anyone.  For a refresher, this is him. He's a sweet cat, but he didn't like my horde of cats at all.  Mama has three cats who are all laid-back seniors, so if Sammy comes around before Halloween she's gonna take care of him.  Black cats are not safe during Halloween.  No cat is, really, but black cats are REALLY not safe.  So if ...

Halloween is now one (1) week away.  I reckon it's time to step up the kid-friendly horror a bit. This bow fills in one of the few voids I had in my bow collection.  I have bows that light up, and I have a bow that glows under blacklight, but this is the first one I've owned that glows under regular darkness.  Gotta have my daily dose of radium, y'know.  Ardent readers of my doll blog will know that I love things that glow in the dark. My family is religious, as I've spoken of in the past, and my mother implies that the existence of ghosts flies in the face of the concepts of Heaven and hell.  And yet...and yet we both seem to believe in them.  I've never seen a ghost that I know of, but my grandfather reported seeing...seeing something in his house when Mama was about thirty.  Twice he saw a black lady, dressed in old-timey clothes.  The first time she was sizing up the T.V., trying to figure out what it was.  The second time she was standi...

Bridge Day isn't really a holiday of sorts, but for West Virginians it's a big deal.  The event is a festival held on the third Saturday of October , and people come from far and wide to celebrate New River Gorge Bridge .  Oh my word, it's a beautiful area out there, and the bridge is pretty too.  I like arch bridges. At one time New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge, and it's still the longest one here in the U.S.  It's also the third highest bridge in the country, behind only Royal Gorge Bridge (located in Colorado), and Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Arizona-Nevada border).  During Bridge Day road traffic is closed and pedestrians are allowed onto the bridge.  It is legal to BASE jump and rappel from the bridge during the festival, though you'd never catch me dead doing either one.  The more rural Tunney Hunsaker Bridge also sees a lot of foot traffic during the festival, for those who hate heights ...