The Old Folks Home

[wolftracks]

Makayla is my grand daughter who lives with me. She doesn't go to school here though and this year driving from my house and back almost every day to the Bay Area wasn't in the cards. So this is the first year I HAVEN'T made them up. I've only made 2 costumes since my husband died, because of space and because we did them together. Been making them since I was 12. Our last big year making them, we made 23. One of my daughters bought the costume for her and my youngest, her mommy, did the makeup. Kayla kept telling me I needed to be there to make her up and she wasn't going to look good enough, but her and mom watched some youtube videos and my daughter combined a few and came up with this. So impressed! I do the whole latex and theatrical makeup and she did this with some cheap makeup, oatmeal, toilet paper and toothpaste! I told her she's got that job every year from now on.

I got a total of 10 trick or treaters this year. The first 6 were little and then later that night I opened the door to a kid that was somewhere around 14-16, covered in bloody clothes with a bloody dagger in his hand. It looked really good. Halloween has always been our favorite holiday, so I was impressed, I smiled and looked around the door asking "how many?' He looked really disappointed and said "4, 2 are ;lagging." So 2 girls and another boy and they were kind of taking their time I think to see if the first one scared me.Handed out candy and shut the door and I can hear everything through these walls. I hear a boys voice say "Did she jump?" Then the other "Naw dude she was cool and smiled." Then the other voice and a girl "really??" "Yeah, she ain't afraid of nuttin! " LMAO I ended up listening and softly saying "gotta do better than that." LOL They bloody kid walked down the street today and I didn't recognize him and he yells up to me "excuse me! I was all bloody and I didn't scare you did I?" I just smiled and said, "nope, you did a really good job though, keep it up." His friends with him started asking if I was the lady that just smiled. haha They have no idea.

 

[Cynthia12]

Wolfie, I know the bottom ones are her Halloween costume but I like the top one the most. She is just adorable!

X's 2!

 

[Cynthia12]

Fabulous costume, did you do the makeup???

Congrats on the egg pip... keep us posted!


BF got a 210 lb buck... busy night at the house.

Processing a buck at your place? I'll never forget doing an Elk in my kitchen...back in the 70's. Never again after that..we had those big things processed somewhere else. We thought our little kitchen table would do, we had help from family. Not a great place to do something like that, in a small apt.
Sure was good though. .

 

[ronott1]

Processing a buck at your place? I'll never forget doing an Elk in my kitchen...back in the 70's. Never again after that..we had those big things processed somewhere else. We thought our little kitchen table would do, we had help from family. Not a great place to do something like that, in a small apt.
Sure was good though. .

The Neighbors must have really wondered about what was going on at that little Apartment....

 

[wolftracks]

Fabulous costume, did you do the makeup???

Congrats on the egg pip... keep us posted!


BF got a 210 lb buck... busy night at the house.

I need to find out how big the one my cousin's husband got today. She didn't respond to my telling her to send me some along with the skin and the antlers either. Maybe she'll share it later of her weird friend lets up on her horror of anyone hunting. geez..........Move along!

 

[wolftracks]

Processing a buck at your place? I'll never forget doing an Elk in my kitchen...back in the 70's. Never again after that..we had those big things processed somewhere else. We thought our little kitchen table would do, we had help from family. Not a great place to do something like that, in a small apt.
Sure was good though. .

I remember my neighbor and his friends processing at his house. My friend, his daughter couldn't watch, but I was way to noisy. Can I process a chicken?? Nope

 

[Cynthia12]

Who is ready for the time change? Don't forget..for those that do this.

 

[wolftracks]

I'm ready!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Processing a buck at your place? I'll never forget doing an Elk in my kitchen...back in the 70's. Never again after that..we had those big things processed somewhere else. We thought our little kitchen table would do, we had help from family. Not a great place to do something like that, in a small apt.
Sure was good though. .

Oh, goodness, no, but much respect from me for being able to do that. It's at the butcher. Yesterday I had just finished processing a female turkey - she didn't fit well in the scalder because she was so big. I realized that I couldn't get the tom in there, no matter what, and gave up for the day. I had started cleaning up, and was almost done when I get a panicked call from BF that he shot a deer but it ran off and he couldn't find it and my assistance was needed to follow the blood trail - and get others that he wanted to help out and to his spot because his phone was dying. It was at this point that I realized I didn't have any blaze orange (I'm not a hunter and that's not my style), but I can see my neighbors house from mine, and she has a blaze orange sweater hanging on the porch. So I run over there, knock on the door and say "I NEED THIS! CAN I HAVE IT?!" and then run off with it (and I call her CrazyNeighborLady). It took about 3 hours in the woods to find the deer and drag it back to somewhere a vehicle could get to. At that point it was almost dark, so I knew I had angry and hungry farm animals (my princess showgirl was very upset with me) so I went home while they went to the game station/butcher. Then I went out to get him dinner because at the end he was stumbling out there in the woods from exhaustion and hunger, and I got some ice for my poultry carcasses. They'll have to be chopped up and sealed today, because we did not have the energy last night.

I can't wait to see what my turkey hen dressed out to. She was incredibly strong and it was almost too difficult for me to do.

 

[Highcotton]

I remember my neighbor and his friends processing at his house. My friend, his daughter couldn't watch, but I was way to noisy. Can I process a chicken?? Nope

I remember processing three 200 lb hogs at home when I was a kid. There was 4 adults and some older children. We started early on a cold morning and by evening the sausage were stuffed and hung in the smokehouse along with the hams and bacon and the lard was rendered in the washpot. We kids were so stuffed we were sick from eating those hot cracklin's. And everyone was pleased and exhausted. The next morning we had brains and eggs scrambled for breakfast.