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By Claudine Zap

Sunday is Halloween, and the frightfest has trick-or-treaters checking the Web for the history of the haunted holiday.
Lookups on 'what is the history of Halloween' rose 220% on Yahoo!. Spooky searches for 'the haunted history of Halloween' and 'the true history of Halloween' were also scary-high.
Turns out, the modern-day tradition of outfitting yourself in a costume and going door to door for candy has some really ancient roots.
Originally, the festival came from the Celtic holiday Samhain, which means summer's end, and celebrated the end of fall and the beginning of winter. This day also marked the Celts' version of the new year — and the time, they believed, when the dead came back to roam the earth. (Insert spooky music here.)
Ancestors were honored, but evil spirits were warded off by lighting bonfires and wearing costumes to hide from them. Turnips carved with faces got placed in windows to scare off the unwelcome undead. People would go 'a-souling,' and in exchange for food and drink, pray for a household's dead relatives. In Scotland, spirits were impersonated by men wearing all white with veiled faces. Sound familiar"

Special Socks

Everybody remembers those little chinelle chickens we use to get in our Easter baskets as kids! I've got a whole box of them! Todays message brought to ya'll by the little yellow chickens! Ain't it fun?To start off with, Mike and I are almost finished with the fourth book in the Twilight Saga. We wnt and looked up Twilight movie set this morning and found out it will be filmed in two parts. The actors that play Bella, Edward and Jacob have already shown up to the movie set. Gonna be filmed in Baton-rouge LA. Interesting to hear that update.



Patriotic socks for any occassion!





Cjristmas socks for the holiday season. We ain't got no Halloween socks to date,but I'm sure they'll pop in one day. Have a blessed day possum's!Bubba

A piece of cake

Good afternoon my sock monkey Possum's and do come on in and enjoy the SOCK monkey cake picks of the day. This message brought to you by Myself "Bubba",Charlie Mac and Fletcher. first cake up for veiwing is......



Isn't this one of the loveliest? I think it's positively cute saya Charlie Mac!



Bubba- This one is my favorite! Love the eye lashes!



Fletcher- This one has that all to well known blank stare of a Zombie Sock Monkey. And that's the truth!Have a blessed day Possum's.Bubba

Good morning once again Possum's! As promised....The Chalie Mac Pictures. I won't keep ya'll long,but just wanted to show ya'll our newest member.

Cold Friday

Good morning in the possibilities of Bubba's Socck Drawer My Possum's of this cold Friday morning! The coffee has been poured and the heater has been fired up once again. Down in the 40's as the Sock Monkey wraps up in a quilt and turns over to sleep. Not really,cause I've got to finish this coldness blog. Chiver a bit and my red heeled smile bum Is shaken.



When ya'll are not lookin, Fletcher will get out all your Christmas stockings and hang around in them. It's strangely his favorite pass time. He thinks it's funny. More on the sock Monkey news here in The Sock Drawer, Charlie mac has been finished! We've all been celebrating and dancing the jig around here! Well...all except for Fletcher,he's swinging in our Christmas stockings. He's swingin in a celebrating way,I can tell the difference in the way he swings. Although he'd never admit to it. So look forward to seeing the pic's later on today. Also....Mike finished another Sock Monkey he was working on. The finishing touches such as arms and a tail have been attached. Now for button eyes and he'll sit on the shelf with the rest of us. Have a blessed day Possum's!Bubba

It's a Paul Frank thang

Good Morning Possum's and Peepenators! The weather is all good today! Nice and cool and fall like. Let's talk about this issue of Paul Frank. He thinks he's got this Sock Monkey thang all figured out! I mean look at this........



Does this look like a Sock Monkey to you guys? Not to me it doesn't! I don't see no brown work sock with a red heel smile on it.


And this? What is this? Wall paper? Nothing that revolves around Socks! In my book it does not count! I've also seen this design on pajama's. Well....enough about him!



Cool Socks of the day! Have a blessed one Possum's!Bubba

The coldness of the morning

The frost has fallen on the windsheild this morning! The plug in heater has been fired up to warm the air. Good morning Possum's and Peepsters! As I told you in blogs of days gone by......The newest member to my Sock Drawer is coming along nicely. Mike had to redo him. He was in need of some major over do! And major over do he is getting. He is heeling nicely on the surgery he's already had. Thrift store toe socks have been bought and hands have been made from them. He will be ready for the unveiling soon enough. I have learned his name finally. His name is Charlie Mac! So now there is Fletcher,Charlie Mac and me! Bubba that is for those of you not been paying attention to my blogs all along.


This is Fletcher and myself. Keep us in mind so you don't get us mixed up! Bubba's Sock Drawer is filling up. But what a good time we are having. Rumor has it that the new vampire actors for Breaking Dawn are being chosen! How exciting is that? And Bella wants to become a Vampire! Oh! My sock monkey stars! Why on earth would you want that? The answers to that and other perplexing questions are yet to come! Have a blessed day Possum's.Bubba