Endless Ends

[Endless_Night]

I have been quite under the weather. Meaning I've been trapped in the house for the best part of six days. Today I decided to partake of the fresh air and get a little exercise by raking the burn pile.

Which I did.

Thirty-minutes work, standing up. Tops.

About twenty minutes in, lo and behold, there it was -

That back portion of a rat carcass, complete with tail.


Aaaaaaaaaaaand I was done.


You know, for the most part I am enjoying this learn-about-rural-stuff segment of my life, with few caveats. But the dead animal part? Not so much.

Come to think of it, some of the live animal parts have not been as pastoral as one could hope.

-The Bird in the Sack Incident
-The Triple Scorpion Offensive of 2024
-The Rat Snake Who Came in From the Cold

And by far the most traumatic: The Four-Year Old Who Presented a Baby Copperhead by the Tail.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I watched this! And, it was very much slasher flick meets Agatha Christie. The gore was extant, but less gratuitous than the norm.

The surprise ending was . . . a surprise. Both of them.

The surprise at the end was great! I laughed out loud when the guy was screaming in the closet.

Me too! Though, I love Murder She Wrote even more. Did you know Stephen Spielberg directed and co-wrote and directed the first episode of Columbo? Crazy stuff.

Yes I did. There is a cool YouTube channel called Watch it for days, where this girl covers episodes of Colombo and goes into extreme detail about all the behind the scenes stuff. Some of it is pretty interesting.

Oh! Oh! Okay. This movie requires my attention.


At first I thought you meant The Uninvited (1944). It took me about five minutes to rebombulate, because in no way does your description remotely coincided with sync my recollection of that movie.

Apparently, there are numerous movies with “uninvited” in the titles. But only one with a murder cat on a yacht!

 

[investor2020]

I have been quite under the weather. Meaning I've been trapped in the house for the best part of six days. Today I decided to partake of the fresh air and get a little exercise by raking the burn pile.

Which I did.

Thirty-minutes work, standing up. Tops.

About twenty minutes in, lo and behold, there it was -

That back portion of a rat carcass, complete with tail.


Aaaaaaaaaaaand I was done.


You know, for the most part I am enjoying this learn-about-rural-stuff segment of my life, with few caveats. But the dead animal part? Not so much.

Come to think of it, some of the live animal parts have not been as pastoral as one could hope.

-The Bird in the Sack Incident
-The Triple Scorpion Offensive of 2024
-The Rat Snake Who Came in From the Cold

And by far the most traumatic: The Four-Year Old Who Presented a Baby Copperhead by the Tail.

Sorry to hear you've been under the weather of late . . . housebound is certainly not your nature. As to the list of non-pastoral events, a future best-seller is in the works: "City Girl Goes Rural" I want an autographed copy of the first edition !

 

[investor2020]

Oh wait ! Goggled "housebound" to see if it needed a dash between the words, and found this:

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh wait ! Goggled "housebound" to see if it needed a dash between the words, and found this:

All I can say is this looks way more active than my housebound experience.

 

[Endless_Night]

So, yesterday I mucked through the nearly drained current pond space, including the thicket-y overhang at one end.

The heavy clay of the area makes this type of thing something of a precarious business. The clay sucks at and clings to the soles of rubber boots, making staying upright a challenge. I fell three times. Meaning I had to dump out water from my boots three times.

What made it even worse was the two pairs of socks required to keep my boots on even marginally got soaked.

The strange part is that last night my ankles started itching. There are all kinds of little insect bites.

What kind of insect lives in the water and can bite through two pairs of socks?

Ah, the mysteries of rural living.

 

[hotwords229_A]

All I can say is this looks way more active than my housebound experience.

This is a pretty good movie, I remember laughing at a few things and generally enjoying it.
It’s one of those movies where the less you know, the better.

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh! Forgot to say.

The enormous dead tree that I keep whinging about is gone!

In my pond versus erosion quest, I've contacted - some might say harassed - the county commissioner, TxDOT, the local A&M Agrilife Extension, and the Soil and Water Conservation Service office.

Two of those have been out to the property, and one is scheduled. Apparently one of the two already here is also the Dead Tree Outside My Fence Line office, or at least knows who is responsible for such.

I am vaguely concerned about still not knowing who is responsible for that sort of thing, but my excitement over the tree being down and not having to track down and argue whoever is responsible into coming and removing the hazard is far greater.

*checks it off the list*

 

[Endless_Night]

This is a pretty good movie, I remember laughing at a few things and generally enjoying it.
It’s one of those movies where the less you know, the better.

I'm not at all certain my currently feeble physique is up to to anything genuinely scary.

I watched a movie last night called Uninvited (1988). It was about an escaped lab cat that goes on a yacht and kills everyone one by one.

This, however, I am watching. Because who can turn down a mutant killer kitty running amok on a luxury yacht? Not I.

Uninvited (1987)

Probably today, as my pond mucking and jungle crawling has left me rather tired.

Too, it will get my mind off possible tetanus.

But the nudity was totally lacking. How do you make a movie about a killer cat on a yacht with hot girls wearing bikinis through the whole movie and make it PG-13? Disgusting!

I will endeavor to enjoy, despite the lack of nudity.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I'm not at all certain my currently feeble physique is up to to anything genuinely scary.

Not scary at all. I think it’s more comedy/mystery with maybe a few jumps?
It’s been years since I’ve seen it.

This, however, I am watching. Because who can turn down a mutant killer kitty running amok on a luxury yacht? Not I.

Uninvited (1987)

Probably today, as my pond mucking and jungle crawling has left me rather tired.

Too, it will get my mind off possible tetanus.

I will endeavor to enjoy, despite the lack of nudity.

To each her own.

 

[Endless_Night]

Spa week is scheduled. Finally.

It's truly amazing how difficult it is to coordinate schedules in order to achieve a little body friction, aromatic wraps, Thai silks, mud bar, and farm-to-table dining.

I am so looking forward to being dusted with hibiscus powder.

The only issue is that it's not for two months. However, in the interests of practicality, I've decided to use it as a driver to get all this outside stuff done beforehand. Because no way do I want to come back from all that body polishing to plunge back into scratches from thorns, insect attacks, spider hysteria, wrestling with clearing, baby chainsawing branches, planting indigenous grasses, shoveling dirt piles, and rat rumps.

My arms and legs are riddled with scratches after my recent water jungle crawl.

I've started dreaming of tetanus.

 

[Endless_Night]

Welp. I am not entirely sure Uninvited was my kind of movie, but I absolutely must give them credit for creativity. That was, hands down, some of the weirdest special effects I have ever seen.

I mean, for a while, it seemed reminiscent of Alien. The first movie. But by the end, it seemed like the creatures was just wearing a cat suit.

This was a strange one, Muscles.


And, nope. No actual nudity, but the girls ran around in 80s workout gear, which is practically the same thing.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Welp. I am not entirely sure Uninvited was my kind of movie, but I absolutely must give them credit for creativity. That was, hands down, some of the weirdest special effects I have ever seen.

I mean, for a while, it seemed reminiscent of Alien. The first movie. But by the end, it seemed like the creatures was just wearing a cat suit.

This was a strange one, Muscles.


And, nope. No actual nudity, but the girls ran around in 80s workout gear, which is practically the same thing.

My favorite part was when the cat attacked the guy in the pickup truck, you could see an arm sticking out of the back of the cat puppet, they didn’t even try to hide it.

Awesome special effects!

 

[Endless_Night]

My favorite part was when the cat attacked the guy in the pickup truck, you could see an arm sticking out of the back of the cat puppet, they didn’t even try to hide it.

Awesome special effects!

The whole truck thing was hilarious. Did you notice it was shiny new red when they took off, but when the cat attacked and the truck rolled, the paint was worn down to the metal in big patches?

Hmmm. Favorite part. I don't know that I can choose.

 

[hotwords229_A]

The whole truck thing was hilarious. Did you notice it was shiny new red when they took off, but when the cat attacked and the truck rolled, the paint was worn down to the metal in big patches?

Hmmm. Favorite part. I don't know that I can choose.

I did notice that.
It’s those little things that gave the movie its charm.
Like Clu Gullager’s fake teeth for absolutely no reason.

 

[Endless_Night]

I think my favorite was when the killer mutant cat crawled back into the mouth of the host cat, which was clearly a stuffed animal.

Note: It had glassy, stuffed animal eyes!

 

[Endless_Night]

Oh! Oh!

*spoiler alert*

Because I know other people are going to want to watch this.

The ending! When the cat was supposed to have washed up on a beach to be rescued, and it was an entirely DIFFERENT kind of cat!

 

[hotwords229_A]

I was very upset when the exercise girl went overboard. I really wanted her to survive.
And shower onscreen.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Oh! Oh!

*spoiler alert*

Because I know other people are going to want to watch this.

The ending! When the cat was supposed to have washed up on a beach to be rescued, and it was and entirely DIFFERENT kind of cat!

Yes, that was ridiculous! An orange cat turned totally black!
This may be the greatest movie ever made.

 

[Endless_Night]

I was very upset when the exercise girl went overboard. I really wanted her to survive.
And shower onscreen.

I completely expected her to survive!

And I don't know what happened to the other girl. She went from being the prettiest to looking like one of the undead in a single scene. This was some serious makeup work.

 

[Endless_Night]

Yes, that was ridiculous! An orange cat turned totally black!

And it didn't even have long hair!!!!

It went from fluffy orange tabby to short haired black.

This may be the greatest movie ever made.

Close. But. I mean.

It's not better than Llamageddon.

 

[hotwords229_A]

Llamageddon wins on title alone.

 

[investor2020]

Forced by all of the above, I went in search of a trailer for that movie . . . and found this site, and the opportuity to view this marvelous (?) selection of 25 trailers of other unique "horror" films:

Unfortunately you have to put up with the constant beginning ads before you can skip to each trailer.

 

[Endless_Night]

Forced by all of the above, I went in search of a trailer for that movie . . . and found this site, and the opportuity to view this marvelous (?) selection of 25 trailers of other unique "horror" films:

Unfortunately you have to put up with the constant beginning ads before you can skip to each trailer.

The Goatman? This has the feel of a Grimm's Fairy Tale. And boy, are some of those Grimm.

 

[Endless_Night]

Binary Poisons exist outside deliberately manufactured chemical weapons?!

That seems . . . dangerous.

Or a clever murder plot.