Long Time Gone

Oh my, it's been a while. I keep meaning to make a post, but then I keep realizing that I have nothing to talk about but school and work, and none of that is very interesting. But then, epiphany!

It is time to tell the story of The Scariest House.

When I drive back and forth from Lubbock and Austin I pass by this one house on 153 and it is the scariest house there ever was. It's abandoned, dilapidated, and spooky as all get-out. It sits on an empty field in a patch of tall grass and weeds, looking like no one has touched it in about seventy years.

Everytime I drive by I wish I had pictures of it, but it's usually just about dusk when I drive by, and that is just too frightening for scaredy-cat me. But then! About a month ago I was driving home, already on 153, when I realized that it was still broad daylight. Time to get some pictures. For most of them I hovered around my pulled-over car, not wanting to brave the thigh-high grass in my flip-flops and corduroys. But as I peered anxiously through my viewfinder I realized that it had taken me this long to actually stop and take pictures, if I wanted close ups, now was the time to get them.

I got close enough to take this one. I was getting confident, thinking I might get some real close ups, maybe even peer in the windows or something.... but then I heard something moving in the grass. I don't think I've ever run that fast. I jumped back into my car and didn't look back until I was at least a mile away. I don't know what it was: a snake, a rodent, perhaps a GHOST. All I know is that it scared the bejesus out of me and I probably won't be pulling over there ever, ever again. But I am glad that I got the pictures I did. You can see a few more over at my Flickr.

This is what it looked like by the time I looked back:

Oh, such a boring, lonely drive.

PS- How cute is the halter bucket? I'm so excited to get it and start using it. That fabric is my absolute favorite of the moment. I love it so much that I might even let Elizabeth teach me how to knit socks, haha. 

Comments

[amysbabies]

I would say that you have had a very healty dose of horror films in the past and I, for one, applaud your instincts to run like hell!! How many times have you seen that exact scenario. Girl pulls over to get photos of the "charming" old house, 2 hours later she is standing on a pile of body parts, her clothes all ripped and grimy holding some blood drenched implement of death that she has just used to save herself from some sicko inbreed in overalls.

Ok, I think I freaked myself out a litte on that one. Nice photos :D

[Knickertwist]

I love that you stopped to take some pics. I could never do that. In for a penny, in for a pound as they say. I'd be one of those unfortunates found lifeless three days later with my hair turned grey with fright.