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Posted on Oct 30th, 2007 by Doug : Back Yard Artist Doug
  So I am a happy chicken farmer for Halloween.I searched through my email spam folder and followed a link. So I bought some of the stuff they were selling and fed it to my chickens. The stuff really works, I swear!

man and his chicken


So let me introduce you to my friend Cindy. Cindy turned up one late night in my studio. I'm still unclear how she got in she was just kind of there all of a sudden. Since that first night I've been staying up really late and now only paint at night. I remember advertisements for art school a while back where they said you could sleep in until 10 every morning because it was just art school after all. That sure worked for me and my 12 hour requirement. But now I'm sleeping all day!

Sweet Cindy


 

Who is this creature that moves like the noonday sun into my damp and dark tomb?

Is your desire to witness my doom, blazing one final time like a magnesium flare?

If not, please close the door behind you and join me. But be prepared to never watch the sun rise over this sea. The water shall always be black, with only the cycles of the moon and stars to make our way through our eternal night. I shall teach you to feed this desire and your pale white beauty shall remain unchanged throughout all time.


What a sweetie!

Too Much Bulls Blood


Our summer home at Fire Lake

NIRVANA LAKE OF fire


 

Whew, is it hot in here or is it just me?

Anyway grab a stick and some marshmallows. Do you like them perfected tanned or burnt crispy like me?

roasting marshmallows

 

A Maori Song


Tangi a te ruru,
kei te hokihoki mai e
E whakawherowhero
i te putahitanga
Näku nei ra
koe i tuku haere
Tëra puritia iho
nui rawa te aroha e

Te Hokinga Mai,
tëna koutou
Tangi ana te ngäkau
i te aroha
Tü tonu ra te mana
te ihi o nga tipuna
kua wehea atu rä
Mauria mai te mauri tangata
hei oranga mo te mörehu
tangi mökai nei
E rapu ana i te ara tika
mo tätou katoa

Te Hokinga Mai,
Te Hokinga Mai

Tü tangata tonu!

       

The cry of the morepork
keeps coming back to me.
It is hooting out there
where the paths meet.
I was the one
who allowed you to go.
It was curbed,
my deep love for you

Te Hokinga Mai,
greetings
How my heart weeps
in (sorrowful) love.
Stand tall, the prestige
(and) the awe of the ancestors
who have passed on.
Bring back the true spirit of the people
to help heal the survivor
crying with loneliness (lit. like a captive)
(and) searching for the true path
for all. (This stanza sung twice)

Te Hokinga Mai!
Te Hokinga Mai!
Stand tall!


Maori Fence


te hokinga mai



More treats

Thorax Cake
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Gemstar : Star-Child
about 9 hours later
Gemstar said

Trés cool…….. in a “hot” sort of way……. LOL!!!  Happy Hallowe'en to you, too, my friend!!!

Nikki : space
about 10 hours later
Nikki said

:) Happy Halloween Doug…:) burnt crispy for me too..thank you…this is fun!

Doug : Back Yard Artist
about 11 hours later
Doug said

Thank you Nikki and Gemstar! Geeze, I hope I wasn’t too devilish! `;-)

Dang those marshmallows are HOT!

Happy Halloween!
otter : Spiritual Off-Roader
about 13 hours later
otter said

All we need now is a big, gooey piece of Devil's Food cake.  Gotta eat it fast though.  The icing is melting already!  Happy Halloween, Doug.

Doug : Back Yard Artist
about 14 hours later
Doug said

A great big face full of chocolaty smile for you Catherine and Happy Halloween!

ayla : Illuminated Skye
about 16 hours later
ayla said

Sweet Cindy is just beautiful!  Do you happen to have any graham crackers & hershey bars to go with the marshmallows? 

Love, Ayla

PS Loved the music

Doug : Back Yard Artist
about 17 hours later
Doug said

Somores! Yeaha, I can do those! Happy Halloween Ayla!

starlight : StarLight Dancing
about 19 hours later
starlight said

you're a trip!

Enlightened.thinker : Light-plerker
about 19 hours later
Enlightened.thinker said

Doug…!!!
You rock!

about 21 hours later
Peridot said

I truly enjoyed the delightful view into your halloweeny world Douglas. I wonder, though where your mind is!!! Though, I do enjoy a most chewy marshmellow, I agree with dearest Aley - that they are best prepared around a camp fire with some cheerful girl scouts singing Kum bi ya, my Lord… and we fest upon the lovely S'mores…mmmm!

I realize that when I return my “identity” to Xena BADASS… that this comment will seem most silly! But when spoken as Sally Fields, the super sweet and perky Flying Nun - it works! ;-) So fun visiting with you and glad we are becoming new friends!
peri

Jami : Lioness
about 22 hours later
Jami said

I loved my marshmellow burnt to a crisp too! (it is the only way I can eat them actually, otherwise the way the fresh ones squish in my mouth, really creeps me out!) Cindy is a beauty too - we night owls (bats) must stick together. Plus, who would want to go out in the day with those chickens running around!

Starseed : Lovesong
about 22 hours later
Starseed said

Happy Halloween!!!

buddingspritelet : full throttle
about 23 hours later
buddingspritelet said

Ok, now I realllly could have done without the thorax cake :)  That was incredibly probably one of the grossest things I have seen next to Martha's HALLOWEEN avatar (and this comment will seem rude once she goes back to her old one (had to go back and add halloween :))  Ok, I am thoroughly creeped out and shivering and really want someone to hold my hand,  wait, not you headless horseman AGAIN, you already got my head and I WANT it BACK, let go of my handdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

Doug : Back Yard Artist
1 day later
Doug said

 

You girls are too much fun!!!

Hmmm, where are my wits. OK I know someone spiked the Ripple!

Wow, that looks so cool, my hand, happy trails>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 
Happy Halloweeny everyone!

Next party in the hot tub at my place!

We'll roast the old rooster if the hens don't drive him off first.


So my head is drifting down a drainpipe, with Popsicle sticks, candy wrappers, bottle caps, hub caps, handy caps, dental floss, Ram Das, dirty socks from last Tuesday, ruby red slippers, ruby red lips, pink sexy slips, Freudian slips….

Ooops, I'm talking too much;

Again!

Jena : fire monkey
1 day later
Jena said

I agree with Buddingspritelit, Thorax cake??

I think YOU can have your cake AND eat it

all by yourself dear Dougie drainpipe
loved the fire lakes….
and disguise deserves a prize for sheer ingenuity

Mamakat : Voyager
1 day later
Mamakat said

Can't say I've ever had THORAX CAKE….yum!  Don't mind me if I eat with my eyes closed, especially since I got sick last night!  And I must say, Sir Douglas Super Sprite, aka Maori Fire God, mybe you should be careful about who you're hanging out with–and I'm not talking about your Zaadz buds here–Cindy looks like a vamp to me.

If you haven't ever read the story of Mike the Headless Chicken, you should check it out on Google.  He's famous.  Maybe he'd like to take Mutant Rooster's place after our upcoming potluck.

Best wishes for All Hallows, my friend!  ( and please wash your socks!)

ayla : Illuminated Skye
1 day later
ayla said

I somehow missed the Thorax cake lastnight.  Ewwwwww.  'sgusting!!!!  And if we're going hot tubbing you'd better wash your feet as well as your socks.

Doug : Back Yard Artist
1 day later
Doug said

 

Whoa!!

I'm just recovering but I still haven't figured out how to get this mask off.

You ladies are…

Well you just are and I'm pleased to be a friend. Well anyway, I'm cleaned, showered, shaved, PG even and last weeks socks are all safely in the linen basket, but yeah that was a little not Namaste, could be just plain Nasty, specially that Thorax cake. But I don't know I think that icon ayla had posted today takes the prize. Did you check out those juicy lemony finger-licking-good chicken breasts?

Geeze, I'm a dark meat guy myself but Whew!

Heart attack city even!

ayla : Illuminated Skye
2 days later
ayla said

I don't know what you're talking about!  This sweet picture of my niece's first Halloween? 

Curious- “PG even” - you're pregnant?

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