I had the "thundering hoardes" as usual.  My decorating for the holiday was minimal this year.  I put up a lighted spider and my carved Jack o'lantern.  We also played the new CD with Dark Shadows to the visiting trick or treaters.(I bet none of them recognized it.)  My husband usually puts out spider webs with plastic spiders and a scarecrow holding his head in his lap but we had a storm and high wind this past weekend so we ran out of time to decorate.  We have a lot of kids because the surrounding rural countryside does not have street lights or sidewalks.  It is just too dangerous for the kids to go trick or treating.

   Well tonight is the night I give candy to every child in the state of Maine.  I found out from a neighbor that the reason we have such a huge number of children for such a small neighborhood is because parents from out in the rural countryside bring their children by car to the neighborhood.  I bought 400+ pieces of candy this year.  I do hope there is some left over for me.

   Hey, Mark is that Large Marge from the Pee Wee Herman movie

     Happy Birthday, October Baby!!!       Now go rake the leaves or break into the hallloween candy stash.  Have a happy birthday, BuzzH

     My mother had a beautiful silver pen just like the one MB floats on the board.  She found it somewhere.  We did not have much money and she did not have alot of jewelry so she was very fond on her beautiful pen.  She worked as a receptionist/assistant to an optometrist and a wealthy patient borrowed The Pen to write a check then put it in her purse.  My mother was too spineless to ask for it back and had to admire her pen from afar every time this patient came to her office.  

     Professor Stokes welcome to the board and thanks for coming up with the title of that movie.  The reason I can't see them happily married is because Angelique is an extremely jealous person think of the movie "Leave her to Heaven".   In the movie, this beautiful women is adored by everyone so no one sees her dark side.  She has an obsessive love for Cornel Wilde(can't think of his characters name)She even murders his little brother and kills the child she is carrying so she would not have to share his love with anyone.  Sarah was a goner.  There is a scene in DS right after Angelique is married to Barnabas.  [spoiler]Barnabas has come back home after trying to find work.  She gives him the third degree.  She has eyes follow him.[/spoiler]  I could probably come up with  more but I would have to re-watch these episodes.  Of course, this is a great idea but I'm waiting for my kids to go back to school.

PS  If you have not seen "Leave her to Heaven" I highly recommend it.  It has Vincent Price in it.

     Oh goodness gracious, MB. Are you kidding?  Mrs. Johnson and Barnabas?   That is sooo creepy on so many levels.  She looked like his aunt(not exactly oedipal as Elizabeth and Barnabas)but still creepy.
     I can't think of anyone he would marry.  Angelique reminds me of Glenn Close in that movie with Michael Douglas(can't think of the name).  She would be offing any woman that spoke to him.  The lady that delivers his mail, waitresses at the coffee shop, and anyone resembling Josette.  If the show had stayed on the air,  he would be paired with the SYT du jour and just like the guy in the red shirt in Star Trek she would be disposed of.  Just look how many women bit the dust on the ponderosa.  Four handsome guys with land and money and they never had a long term gal.  They even had a male housekeeper Hop Sing.  If the men on the ponderosa couldn't get a gal, Barnabas doesn't stand a chance.

Happy Birthday, Midnite.  A toast to you with a can of Moxie which has enough caffeine to make a turtle run at 60 miles per hour.  On second thought, I think you should skip the Moxie and have a lobstah roll(it taste better and won't give you the shakes).
  

My least fav?  Hallie, of course.  She was Jan Brady gone mad.

     " Jan Brady gone mad" this is too funny.  Halle screaming " David! David! David!" instead of "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!"  What a hoot.