{"id":6704,"date":"2010-02-15T22:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T03:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6704"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:59:04","slug":"ready-reload-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=6704","title":{"rendered":"Ready, reload, fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was colder than yesterday, and today I started out looking at my Dorothy costume and decided I would take those flame platform shoes for a twirl and then I happened upon my neighbor building his coffin on a shopping cart – his group is going as celebrity deaths and a friend had stopped by his house who said she had red glitter so I and Loca followed her to her house down on the other side of the bayou.<\/p>\n

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Right before we got to the house with the glitter, I blew a wheel. Meaning my shoe broke. What to do – it was FREEZING outside and we discussed the ramifications of a naughty Dorothy outfit that required skin and decided I would be a scarecrow.<\/p>\n

Now what?<\/p>\n

Well let’s see – improvise! Borrow a shirt from Roy, borrow some pants from Jerri, find a hat, get the dead sawgrass in Roy’s yard, stitch it to the pants and shirt and then tear up a bandana and stitch that into the pants, go to the new Walgreens get black eyeliner to paint triangle on nose.<\/p>\n

Okay, here I was bragging about the easy life – the one where you go in and drop $50 for a costume and call it a day and now in reality, I am making a new suit, so hello Mardi Gras, here I come. The scarecrow – now if I only had a brain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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