Happy day of the dead.. strange concept, I know. On this day many folks in Latin America go to visit the graves of their loved ones and bring them their favorite foods
and flowers..

Diane and Gabe made this special Dia de los muertos bread… in the shape of a skull and cross bones. for Gabe to take to school

In the spirit of the day, I just went out and put some Halloween candy on Sam’s
memorial stone in the back yard.. Not that he’s  ‘there’.. any more than he’s everywhere.  .. It just felt good to do (enjoy,  my son…)

I hope everyone takes some time to send some love to your own ancestors today…

In the same Halloween theme.. Herb sent me some pictures of Project-x.. aka the pumpkin king from the Haunted Forest. Homer and I built this robot 2 years ago for them. It’s about 6 feet tall when crouching.. then rises to a full 23 feet when actuated. It has two 8 foot arms controlled by pneumatic cylinders that are operated by wired contacts on a pair of gloves. When the opperator speaks into a mike, the monsters 3 foot wide mouth opens and closes in time with the speach and his eyes flicker red and yellow.  Unfortunately, I didn’ thave much time to put into the project this year.. I did help them get the electronics running. Homer redid the pnematics this year. Evidently, it’s all worked pretty well for them this year.  It was good to hear. Here are soem pictures from Sunday’s matinee show.. the Matinee is for little kids.. This thing is pretty scary at night..

Well.. that’s about is for tonight.. more tomorrow fro Austin..
nite folks.. nite sam
-me