Halloween haunting

[skeeter@ccia.com]

A long time ago when the kids were still home, the Halloween season came. Before bed time, the kids had on the tv some of the wildest Halloween stories. Chainsaw killers, Screams that would curl your hair, people lost in the woods at night with some guy in a white mask after them and every other kind of wild critter your imagination can muster out there in the woods...BUT I still had to watch some of them with the kids...It is also the season for gettin in the woods early before light to hunt the 'big buck'. I parked at my favorite spot right in the middle of nowhere and ventured down a horse trail into the deep woods with my gun over my shoulder. The morning was crisp, stars were by the millions like glitter in the sky as I crossed over the ridge and stood in an opening in the field amazed at the wonder of this earth. Then it happened, I started to walk again down the trail when this big monster reached out and grabbed me from behind. It slapped me along side the head and grabbed me with it's tentacles that got tighter the more I wrestled with it. It had big teeth, slobber drooling from it's hungry lips... It came from deep within the bushy tree I had just passed wondering as in the movies I had just watched what strange things could lurk around the other side. It shook the bush wildly as I fought it off...thinking if only I had loaded this gun..........Whew what a relief it was to find out my rifle sling had hooked a branch as I walked past it shaking the bushy tree wildly as I pulled thinking something had grabbed my gun and those green briers do wrap around you like tentacles from an octopus.....well as I stood looking around in the dark to make sure nobody had seen what had done to myself I made it a point to never watch those Halloween movies again the night before I venture into the woods ......lmaooo..whew!....oh and wait till you hear of another time...when there was something that grabbed me......