Day 20,362

Farewell, Halloween… I am glad we still have Autumn for a bit. 🥮 🍂 My in-laws head home tomorrow, so it’s back to just the triad of @scottobear, @maximillian_deersteak, and @pearlsquirrel… less dining out, more board games and Lego, fewer PBS Masterpiece Mysteries. Works for me, though we will miss them very much until they return. It’s hard to believe that 2024 is almost done. I’m glad my mom and Wilt got to visit and see all the colors last week, too. #doodle #fall #autumn https://www.instagram.com/p/DB5Jg2aRwc7/?igsh=MTZocG01Y2J5Y3E3ZA==

ᚦ︍ᛖ᛫ᛒ-ᚱᚨᚢ︍᛫ᚹᛁᛚᛚ᛫ᚲ︍ᛟᛟᚱᛞᛁᚾᚨᛏᛖ᛫ᚦ︍ᛖ᛫ᛗᛟᛏᛁᛟᚾ᛫ᛟᚠ᛫ᛗᚢ︍᛫ᛒᛟᛞᚢ︍’ᛊ᛫ᛗᛟᛚᛖᚲ︍ᚢᛚᛖᛊ᛫ᚹᛁᚦ︍᛫ᚦ︍ᛖ᛫ᚨᛏᛗᛟᛊᛈᚺᛖᚱᛁᚲ︍᛫ᚱᛖᚲ︌ᚢᛁᚱᛖᛗᛖᚾᛏᛊ᛫ᛟᚠ᛫ᚦ︍ᛖ᛫ᛖᚨᚱᚦ︍-ᛉᛟᚾᛖ! Transliteration- b-rauð will kordináte þe motión of muð boðuð’s molekules wiþ þe atmósfærerik rekuirements of þe eard-zone! From- The B-ray will coordinate the motion of my body’s molecules with the atmospheric requirements of the Earth-Zone! #shadethechangingman #steveditko https://www.instagram.com/p/DB2itRNxbbc/?igsh=M2FoM28ycjI1am51

#backyardzoo #deer #earlytrickortreating https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBzqEDpxfBi/?igsh=MXIwZDI5aGZucDdraw==

Yikes, a buck visited, too!

#backyardzoo #earlytrickortreating #deer


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Watching Vertigo with the family tonight…


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Deer visit 10-26-2024 #deer #backyardzoo #roanokeva


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Day 20,360

Prompt – “R.I.P.” And so ends another season with Mab! I preloaded quite a bit this year, starting in September, but it was the only way I could get drawings out on a daily basis. I went with this as a companion piece to yesterday’s ghost, given that it was the haunted tank, and I want to make it perfectly clear that I in no way support the Confederacy. There are far too many memorials to traitors in this neck of the woods, both in Maryland and Virginia. Confederate memorials began to appear in public places in the United States in the early 20th century, and the number of memorials increased during the Jim Crow era. The timing and location of these monuments suggest that they were a response to Black Americans gaining political power and freedom. The United Daughters of the Confederacy sponsored many of these monuments, which were often built on courthouse grounds and other government office grounds.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/confederate-statues/#:~:text=And%20this%20effort%20was%20largely,and%20as%20recently%20as%202011.

#doodle #mdwc24d31restinpeace #mdwc24d31 #mdwc24 #restinpeace #mabgravesdrawlloweenclub #mabsdrawlloweenclub #unionsoldier #confederacy

Day 20,359

Prompt – “Ghost” I first read about the haunted tank back in the day, but there is no way I’m adding a Confederate flag to a picture these days. The Haunted Tank was originally a Stuart and was haunted by its namesake. During its tour of duty, it became a strange “jigsaw tank,” sort of A-Team-ed together at a junkyard into a souped-up hot rod of a war machine. Later, when the crew switched to a Sherman tank, the ghost had a little changing of the guard to the new vehicle to stay with his living human descendant, Jeb, despite the ghost of General Sherman wanting the right to possess the tank named for him. I had a lot of luck picking up old copies of G.I. Combat back in the day from the 10-for-a-dollar bins at the comic book store when I was a kid. Those long boxes were full of very worn, often coverless remnants of collections that had been brought in, and whatever was left over after the owner had bagged and boarded the stuff that wasn’t completely ruined. The dime bins eventually turned into quarter bins, then 3-for-a-buck or more. I don’t even know if they exist at comic stores anymore because space is at a premium. All I know is that that is where I got my first taste of books like “Weird War Tales”, “Plop!” and black-and-white Warren magazines, and I’m thankful for it. When you are a little kid with maybe three bucks on you, that would get you a serious pile of loot to read, with enough money left on you to pick up a coke at the gas station on the way home. #doodle #ghost #hauntedtank #dccomics #bronzeagemonsters #warcomics #gicombat #mdwc24d30ghost #mdwc24d30 #mdwc24 #jebstuart #shermantank https://www.instagram.com/p/DBwlc_9Ryo4/?igsh=MWUzNXRheHZlcjBzdQ==

Day 20,358

Prompt – “Pumpkin” I didn’t think to do a Little Shop homage when the Botanical Beasts prompt popped up, so I figured this was as good a time as any. The Great Pumpkin has had enough of our less-than-humble pumpkin patches! In the spirit of the subject, I found a planty grail today at my favorite friendly local resource, The Basement. A used McFarlane Swamp Thing (not the glow one with both heads, but the original) at an amazing price, with everything but the box. Now, Ted and Alec can frolic in the bogs together. Even though my most recent Man-Thing is a bit shorter than Swampy, they will make a darling leafy Mutt and Jeff on my office shelf when the Halloween décor is cycled out. If you look carefully, you will see my also recently obtained buttons from @bronzeagemonsters and a little gray kitty to represent @pearlsquirrel in the foreground and background, respectively.

#doodle #pumpkin #kaiju #thegreatpumpkin #mdwc24d29pumpkin #mdwc24d29 #mdwc24 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #littleshopofhorrors #originalending #swampthing #manthing #alecholland #tedsallis #bronzeagemonsters

Day 20,357

Prompt – “dragon” I, too, would prefer multiple candy buckets when trick or treating. Trogdor was a man I mean, he was a dragon man Or, maybe he was just a dragon. But he was still Trogdor! Trogdor!

#doodle #mdwc24d28dragon #mdwc24d28 #mdwc24 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #dragon #trogdor https://www.instagram.com/p/DBrZd7LR34T/?igsh=eGFwZ2ozeTl6OWVs

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