Eaten By The Monster Of Love

This one is for Frankie. 😹

Sir Frankie Crisp

   I've nearly finished the cover for Dana's Dreams Two. Up to page 129 in that, and I started it in June. Eventually the original ought to be available on Ebay. It will be available as prints and other fun stuff on ZAZZLE before that. Stay tuned. I'm also going to list an old High Priestess of mine from before Captivating Tarot. It's snowing again. I've been putting off visiting the neighbors as it has been so cold and windy. I don't drive there because I always leave looped on red wine. I miss them. I also miss spring. Anyway, I'll TTYL... 

Dana's Dreams

Captivating Tarot

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Christmas at Joanna Furnace 2024

  Joanna Furnace is a charming way to kick start the holidays. We've been coming for seventeen years, but this was the best yet. We began the evening with supper at Stampede Barbeque. They have the best cider on tap. It's my brother's and my place, but Ron enjoyed it tonight too, and said that we can come more often. I think he was impressed as he thought he knew our cashier from wrestling and Amish Mafia. It's the same wonderful staff. I actually discovered this place last year at Apple Fest, they were selling cider. I love the hushpuppies and coleslaw, but Ron was impressed with his brisket salad and peanutbutter pie. Joanna's is usually packed, but not tonight. The dollhouse is new. I think somebody created it to look like the original furnace owner's mansion that was sadly demolished long ago. Best band ever! They usually feature a school choir, but this year was a gentlemens' brass band. I haven't been in the mood for Christmas music this year. Frankie and I have been listening to Shiner's favorite party songs because it's all new to Frankie. This band played all my favorites. They were great. I had gotten some Starry Slumber wine from the Sleepy Cat Urban Winery in Allentown, better than the sweet stuff I got last year. There were no letters in Kris Kringle's box at the general store where I get the little Civil War soldiers like I left in Jeremy's Room at The Farnsworth House in Gettysburg, so I left him a letter thanking him for Frankie. Actually we all had major Christmas scores as I got a dollhouse sized Heidi Lotte doll from the forties from Mr. Glass, the third doll I've gotten from him. He was also selling for the German woodcarver that I'd gotten a gnome from who could not make it tonight, so Ron got something handmade for his stocking that is still very light. It's not even his real stocking, the blue velvet topped with berries that I made him seventeen years ago, as the house is cat proof this Christmas. I didn't get everything out of the attic this year, certainly nothing breakable. Frankie was a very good boy, the tree was still up when we got home. He made out like a fat cat, his stocking is full. His stocking is from my childhood, and Shiner's first stocking. Shiner nibbled it's hand when he was a puppy. It's a cat in a Santa hat popping out of the stocking. Tonight a Packers catnip mouse and an alpaca caterpillar finger puppet were added, plus he got a hand knitted hooded cat bed. He's going to love it. Frankie loves boxes and bags. Shiner graduated to the big Tinkerbelle stocking that Mummy got me that Ron is settling for this year. Actually it's bigger, so I have some work to do. I also got a darling little knit bee and a new hat for Cornwall Furnace tomorrow. 

The Train

Light Maze

 

Doc Holliday | Full Western Movie

  Frankie is in his rocking Archie Bunker chair, and I've got some pear cider and Malbec. I like mixing them with some pomegranate seeds for fun. I'm sort of over the moon. Doc Holliday is a hero of mine. I wrote a paper on him in grad school. I was the only girl in the class. Of course I got an A. I still see my professor on The History Channel now and then. Doc deserves a novel. Maybe after Fanging with Claude? 

Jawbreaker Cabernet

 Went looking for some five dollar Werewolf Romanian wine like the after Halloween sales last year: nope- out. Scored the last bottle of this for $6.49- $7.94 after TAXES. Damn' those demonrats are wringing us dry all round. It's tasty though. 

Happy Halloween!

We've got a new red wine to try later, and I'm watching From a Whisper to a Scream on New Castle After Dark. It's not the best movie, but it's got Vincent Price, enough said. I've also been watching Thriller from the seventies on tubi. I enjoy trippy late sixties, early seventies things: more colorful and wyrd like me. Honestly not a Starbucks fan, but their Fall Blend is nearly as good as their Spring. Happy Halloween! 

 

Dreams 10/27

Dreamt I was walking to high-school with three older men, one was bald, and one was wearing a red ball cap. It was all up hill through the slums, and there was litter scattered about. When I got there I was hanging out in an old library with a girl friend from school. She was a teenager again, and we were crafting while drinking red wine. Then, I had to walk all the way back home with the same older men. 

Werewolf Romanian Wine

 Both the Cabernet and Merlot are good. Who knew? Don't like German wine, but the Spanish stuff is good. I got this last year for five dollars after Halloween. Rahr, it's clawsome. Back to Peaky Blinders, it's got all of my favorite music too. 

The Mad Hairy Fella

 Woo-hoo, I might not have gotten to The Invisible Guardian yet, and I swear I won't give it away before I do like Amy Tan, Ken Follett, and Catherine Cookson; but, my favorite wine is back in town. Having it with mimosa cheese on a pub roll just now. Not a bad day. 

The Mad Hairy Fella

El Goru Gold

I used to only drink Italian wine. Californian and especially Australian wine makes me sick, but I like Spanish reds, now, too. The Mad Hairy Fella is the Basque equivalent to Bigfoot. We love this stuff. It's great. 

El Goru Gold