halloween | Six Ten

I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend. We set up our firepit, a Halloween playlist on a radio in the garage, and our table of individually bagged candy at the end of the driveway, and the weather cooperated! We bundled up and enjoyed the fire and said hello to the intrepid folks who came by. We had a lot of trick or treaters, parents wore masks and respected social distancing, and all in all it was a very enjoyable evening.

I had been doggedly working on my Halloween socks and squeaked in under the wire, weaving in the ends at 2pm on Halloween. And they were on my feet for the festivities!

As a reminder, these are ‘Minecraft’ pattern by Heather Cox, knit on the Less Traveled 757 sock yarn in the ‘Slutty Pumpkin’ colorway. I did modify somewhat, replacing the pattern heel with a simple slip-stitch. I’m really happy with how they turned out – the pattern is squishy and comfortable and fun to knit, and the yarn is a perfect weight and not in the least bit itchy.

They are Raveled here.

Now the Halloween decorations are put away, the yard is buttoned up for the season of long darkness, and things feel oddly empty and barren. The clocks are turned and I find myself without a pair of socks on the needles or a horror film to watch! The first will be rectified soon. I need to start on my Christmas socks and in the meantime, I’m just going to catch up on my vlogs and knit another careless stripe of garter on my never-ending Log Cabin blanket.

As a footnote, if I’m honest I’m dreading the week to come. I am prepared for the worst of Trump gaslighting and trying to steal the election, but hoping for the best that the results are so clear that they simply can’t be lied about or obfuscated. I hope that 4 years of the worst president in US history will soon be over and whatever we have to suffer this week will be the last of his poison.

I can’t wait to line up at the ballot box on Tuesday and vote him down.

Be well, be safe, and find the light. xoxo

Happy Halloween!

It’s become a bit of a tradition for us to spend the month of October engaging in a horror movie marathon that’s become known as our ’21 Days of Halloween’. There’s no real logic behind that number except that shooting for 31 horror movies felt waaaay too much and 21 seemed challenging yet achievable. We rarely ever actually hit 21 (last year I think we made it to 17) and this year we are coming in with a somewhat lackluster showing of 15. But it’s all in good fun and without further ado, here is our complete listing. Our starred reviews follow the list and if you can stick around until the end of the post you can see my lovely daughter in her Halloween costume.

Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
Prom Night (1980)
Asylum (1972)
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Weekend Murders (1970)
Hubie Halloween (2020)
Final Exam (1981)
Last House on Massacre Street (also released as The Bride and The House That Cried Murder) (1973)
Night of the Demons (1988)*
Mystery Science Theater 3000 watches Boggy Creek II (1984)
The Boy (2016)*
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The Birds (1963)
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS STARRED REVIEW (by Sara) – This raunchfest came out of nowhere to be my favorite film of the season. It’s a great example of the 1980’s horror movie genre, complete with an exceptionally lame party at an abandoned funeral parlor / mansion, an Indian burial ground, bad girls doing spine-bending interpretive dance to a truly awful 1980’s power ballad soundtrack, lots of gratuitous boobs and butt cheeks, early death to the sexually promiscuous, demons, and the virtuous Final Girl. There’s also a side plot featuring a crotchety old man and the urban legend of razor blades in Halloween offerings which has a very satisfactory ending. It has it all!

THE BOY STARRED REVIEW (by Brandon) – An outrageous concept so sure, why not? Lets see where the hell this goes. Well executed, well paced, and with a nice little twist to boot. The sleeper hit of our little marathon.