Silly Pet Halloween Costumes - Part 3

Part 3, the finale of our parade of Halloween silliness begins with Fergus as a beanie boy:

Bugsy as the Candy Corn Witch:

Fergus as the Easter Bunny, with Daisy searching behind him for eggs:

Daphne with a spider on her head:

Seamus as a goofy devil:

Georgette as a ballerina in a lovely tutu:

Ruby as a duckling:

Clover as a French, Apache dancing pumpkin-head:

Daisy as Dale Evans, the cowgirl:

Blue as Claude Dinglehoffer, a rhinestone cowboy:

Silly Pet Halloween Costumes - Part 2

Part 2 of our parade of silliness begins with Clover as Ginger, from "Gilligan's Island:"

Ruby as a bunny rabbit:

Seamus in drag. I've given him the drag name of Wilma Fingerdoo:

Fergus as a skunk, with Daphne smelling his stinkiness:

Daphne as a caterpillar:

Bugsy as a Frenchman:

Remy as Boogers, the clown:

Clover as a purple-winged angel with a Halloween themed baseball cap:

Jack as a bumblebee:

Meghan as Minnie Mouse:

Silly Pet Halloween Costumes - Part 1

It's that spooky time of year again, and the pets have been preparing their costumes for many weeks so you will be amused and amazed. Georgette has died since her photos were taken, but they bring back such warm, happy thoughts of her and I am including them here.

Let's start the pageant of silliness with Clover, dressed as "The Littlest Angel" with white wings:

Blue as the Wicked Witch of the South Pasture:

Daisy as a crabby pirate who'd surely make you walk the plank:

Jack, with a shark biting his head:

Meghan as a monkey:

Fergus as a magic unicorn:

Georgette as a sleepy cowgirl:

Seamus as Yukon Cornelius from the Island Of Misfit Toys in "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer:"

Daphne as a valiant fire chief:

Jack, ready for a fiesta (or a siesta):

Bugsy as court jester:

Pre-Halloween Visions Around The Farm

We had our first hard freeze in October, requiring me to break the ice on the stock tank with the handle of a flat shovel. I had to use the handle because the blade was covered with dried manure:

We also had our first snow one night. It didn't pile up, but it lasted most of the next day:

I noticed, as I have in past years, that some of the autumn leaves of Bittersweet Nightshade turn a beautiful purple color:


Combined with its red berries, Bittersweet Nightshade is a lovely plant:


 The pigeons continued to get a screen in their window during the days, but I closed the window during the nights:

The little hens don't seem to care about the cold. They just wish they could go outside. Of course they have no concept of roving, ravenous, chicken eating foxes:

I'm often outside, doing chores, just as the sun breaks above the trees in the morning:

And there's a new vision each morning. This photo was taken about the same time but the next day after the above photo:

I pass this house every time I drive to or from Massena, and they always decorate extravagantly for holidays. But this year they outdid themselves, with a plethora of skulls and skeletons. This is the view from the road, showing human, horse, dog and vulture skeletons, not to mention what appears to be a winged ram skeleton:

I walked up the driveway for a side view, where the cedars supported bats on strings and some of the skeletons were easier to see:


But that wasn't the entire display. On the other side of the driveway they had ghosts, tombstones, vampires, ghouls and pumpkins. Now that's what I call a Halloween display!:

An Autumn Walk Around The Farm - Part 1

Most of the pretty autumn leaves had fallen, but one chilly, windy day I walked outside to look around and decided that there was still an abundance of autumn beauty everywhere I looked. I began in front of my house, looking past my mailbox and across the county road to the corn field and pasture belonging to neighbors:

My Bridalveil Spirea was turning bright red:

The pink Rose Mallows had two blossoms which had begun to unfurl until a nighttime freeze hit them. They won't open any farther now:

The super hardy Morden Sunrise rose, however, was still blooming. It was beautiful but alas, this was the best photo I could manage to get:

A witch, ghost and devil now hang above my front door, moving constantly with the wind:

The peony leaves were turning red:

In the apple grove, windfall fruit was thick and difficult to walk across:

Some fruit still clung to the branches, and it was exceptionally lovely:

I walked out into the south field to check on the horses' muzzles. To my surprise, they were fine and I didn't need to put them back on - so I just took some photos:

I looked back toward the gravel road, a wonderful autumn scene:


The Canada Thistle managed to spring back twice after I cut it down, some of it still blooming and producing seed for more &#$%# thistles next year:

The view from the south field back toward the barn and house. I still had more walking to do, though, and will post Part 2 tomorrow: