Carving pumpkins

We love Halloween.

We love pumpkin guts.

Tomorrow is going to be complete insanity.

There is another island visiting us in the morning for a friendly Cross Country meet.

Then, the grown-ups (and I use the term loosely) will put the finishing touches on the Haunted Hayride setup...

and the Halloween Party begins at 6pm. Hayrides begin at 7.

And the second, bigger-kid-scarier-hayride ends when all the body parts have been collected...

bwahahahahahahhhhaaa!

Can't believe my eyes.

This is a Rube Goldberg experiment to the 10th power!

My brain cannot wrap itself around the process of making this happen, but it sure is amazing to watch!

Thank You, Helen, for sharing this!

Frenchboro Follies

In the blooper reel that is my life...this is one of the top 10.

Reason #4 for Marissa NOT to leave the island:

(photo edited to add author credit only)

This one is not technically ours as it happened in Bass Harbor, but my-oh-my, it's just too classic not to share!

This little mishap occurred at the beginning of October. That large truck (full of luscious lobsters) pushed the ferry boat away from the ramp while it was driving onto the ramp.

It dangled there for four hours awaiting a crane to get it back on solid ground.

Thank goodness, nobody was hurt(except the drive shaft on the truck).

We will tell this tale for years to come!

p.s. Can you imagine ME driving off when that happened??!!?? My scream would STILL be reverberating, a month later!