Oh my friends – didn’t you get a chill just reading that title – dismemberment? It does bring me shutters thinking about it. You see this is a story that read about and heard on television. I couldn’t believe my piggy eyes and ears! I was shocked and ran to tell mom/dad. They were in awe as well.
There was a man that lived in Tennessee. Back in November of last year, he and his wife had a huge fight. Things didn’t end well. The fight escalated and the guy ended up killing his wife, dismembering her and putting her in their freezer in the garage of their house. There she was for two days.
During those two days, the man kept thinking his wife was coming to him in his dreams about what happened. He finally went and checked the freezer and she was alive! They had a long conversation and she was telling him how much she loved him. He was crying when he called 911 to come out and help her.
The police arrived to the house. When they went into the garage, there was no way the woman could have been talking to the guy – she was dead and had been for several days. Did she come back to seek her revenge?
Oh Yes – do a little dance – shake your booty – today, February 22, is a holiday that mom can definitely live up and enjoy – National Margarita Day! Mom especially likes either a frozen mango margarita with a sugar rim OR a habanero margarita with just enough spice. So whether you enjoy the spice, frozen, on the rocks or fruity – find that lost shaker of salt and enjoy you a margarita today in celebration of this fantastic holiday!
Today’s spook tale is a real scary story, something that happened to my daddy when he was a young boy. Are you ready for this? Are you sure? You might want to hold someone’s hand.
When dad was around was 10 years old, his mom’s Aunt Dorothy passed away. She had a house in Blue Ridge, West Virginia. It looked similar to this picture. Up on a hill top, had a wrap around porch and was two stories with a full basement. The house looked normal but had a little bit of an eerie factor… especially to a young child. Let me give you a little bit background on some chilling history of the home.
Aunt Dorothy had a brother named John that also lived with her. There’s two different stories that circulated about what happened to dear poor John. One was that Aunt Dorothy and John had dinner one night. Afterwards, he stood up, crossed himself and then fell over dead. They other story was they had a fight one day and Aunt Dorothy left the house. When she returned from cooling down, he was dead. No one knows which tale is how poor John really died. Only one fact did remain – John was dead. From that day forward, Aunt Dorothy locked his room and no one was ever allowed to enter his room. And although the room was locked and she had the key, she would often mention how it sounded like someone was in the room at night walking around.
Upon Aunt Dorothy’s death, daddy’s mom and dad took him to the house so they could start cleaning some things up to sale the home. They traveled out of state and got to Blue Ridge, West Virginia on a Thursday evening. They went to Aunt Dorothy’s home the next day to start the clean up. They went inside and it was cool inside, almost like goosebump kind of cool with the hair on your arms standing up. This was strange because in that time during the 1970’s in this area, there really wasn’t central heating and air. It was the middle of August and it was hot outside, in the 90’s plus. Typical summer time weather – hot and very humid. But, in the home it was cool and comfortable, almost ice cold. They commented on how it was so cold that you could almost hang meat. But they started to go through the home to see what they wanted, starting with the upstairs.
They found the key to the locked room that once belonged to Aunt Dorothy’s brother John. The room had just been locked and never touched – as if he was returning back home one day and it was just frozen in time. There was a book on the bedside table that was still marked where he had left off from reading. Clothes were still scattered about the room. The bed was still made. There was a partial letter written on the desk to an old friend that was never finished. The room had a eerie feeling like someone was still there and it was cold in this room as well. One thing that was strange about the room. There was no cob webs, no dust, nothing that looked like this room had been vacant for over 15 years. It was bizarre but they figured Aunt Dorothy had been in dusting. But why dust and not pick up the scattered clothing?
Daddy’s father wanted him to go down into the basement alone to check for any tools that they possibly might want to bring home. Daddy being all of 10 said sure. How very brave of him. Each step he took going down into the dark, cold and dank basement, he felt like he was being watched. At times, it was like someone was following him but no one else was there when he looked around. He found some things that they might possibly want and he gathered them up. Slowly, he took everything upstairs with each step still feeling like he was being watched and followed. And yes he was a child and you might be saying that he was scared because of his age. Well, was he? Let’s continue our story.
They stayed at the house on/off for the next couple of days cleaning. They would go back to the hotel each night and return in the hot August weather with the coolness inside of the home. Each day they were there cleaning and fixing things up, the house remained cool like there was an air conditioner on… but there wasn’t one.
On the last day, dad’s mom asked him and his father to start cleaning up the living room area while she was starting in the parlor. There was an old china cabinet that had french doors on the front. When you looked through the glass panes, you could see a locked latch across the front. Dad’s mom tried the doors, but she couldn’t get them open. They were firmly locked. Inside of the china cabinet, there was some sterling silver and china that dad’s mom wanted to take back home.
She didn’t want to break the doors in hopes of selling the antique furniture. On the opposite side of the wall, there was a hutch. She asked for the boys to come over to possibly help find a key to the china cabinet. While the boys were searching the hutch, all of a sudden dad’s mom let out a chilling scream.
They turned around immediately and the french doors to the china cabinet were standing wide open as if someone had opened them both at the same time. Dad’s mom took full advantage of the opportunity and removed the pieces she wanted. Afterwards, she pushed the doors back together and the cabinet locked itself back up. You could hear the click-click sound of the latch going right back to where it was previously.
We took the items we wanted out to the car while dad’s father took the trash out. We came back into the house to lock it up to leave our final time. We noticed that the house had lost the coolness feeling that it had and had become hot just like it was outside in the August air. Three days of air conditioning, goosebump coolness, hair standing on your arms and now hot humid heat. We left that day and never returned.
Oh my friends – didn’t you get a chill just reading that title – dismemberment? It does bring me shutters thinking about it. You see this is a story that read about and heard on television. I couldn’t believe my piggy eyes and ears! I was shocked and ran to tell mom/dad. They were in awe as well.
There was a man that lived in Tennessee. Back in November of last year, he and his wife had a huge fight. Things didn’t end well. The fight escalated and the guy ended up killing his wife, dismembering her and putting her in their freezer in the garage of their house. There she was for two days.
During those two days, the man kept thinking his wife was coming to him in his dreams about what happened. He finally went and checked the freezer and she was alive! They had a long conversation and she was telling him how much she loved him. He was crying when he called 911 to come out and help her.
The police arrived to the house. When they went into the garage, there was no way the woman could have been talking to the guy – she was dead and had been for several days. Did she come back to seek her revenge?
Oh Yes – do a little dance – shake your booty – today, February 22, is a holiday that mom can definitely live up and enjoy – National Margarita Day! Mom especially likes either a frozen mango margarita with a sugar rim OR a habanero margarita with just enough spice. So whether you enjoy the spice, frozen, on the rocks or fruity – find that lost shaker of salt and enjoy you a margarita today in celebration of this fantastic holiday!
Oh my friends – didn’t you get a chill just reading that title – dismemberment? It does bring me shutters thinking about it. You see this is a story that read about and heard on television. I couldn’t believe my piggy eyes and ears! I was shocked and ran to tell mom/dad. They were in awe as well.
There was a man that lived in Tennessee. Back in November of last year, he and his wife had a huge fight. Things didn’t end well. The fight escalated and the guy ended up killing his wife, dismembering her and putting her in their freezer in the garage of their house. There she was for two days.
During those two days, the man kept thinking his wife was coming to him in his dreams about what happened. He finally went and checked the freezer and she was alive! They had a long conversation and she was telling him how much she loved him. He was crying when he called 911 to come out and help her.
The police arrived to the house. When they went into the garage, there was no way the woman could have been talking to the guy – she was dead and had been for several days. Did she come back to seek her revenge?
Today’s spook tale is a real scary story, something that happened to my daddy when he was a young boy. Are you ready for this? Are you sure? You might want to hold someone’s hand.
When dad was around was 10 years old, his mom’s Aunt Dorothy passed away. She had a house in Blue Ridge, West Virginia. It looked similar to this picture. Up on a hill top, had a wrap around porch and was two stories with a full basement. The house looked normal but had a little bit of an eerie factor… especially to a young child. Let me give you a little bit background on some chilling history of the home.
Aunt Dorothy had a brother named John that also lived with her. There’s two different stories that circulated about what happened to dear poor John. One was that Aunt Dorothy and John had dinner one night. Afterwards, he stood up, crossed himself and then fell over dead. They other story was they had a fight one day and Aunt Dorothy left the house. When she returned from cooling down, he was dead. No one knows which tale is how poor John really died. Only one fact did remain – John was dead. From that day forward, Aunt Dorothy locked his room and no one was ever allowed to enter his room. And although the room was locked and she had the key, she would often mention how it sounded like someone was in the room at night walking around.
Upon Aunt Dorothy’s death, daddy’s mom and dad took him to the house so they could start cleaning some things up to sale the home. They traveled out of state and got to Blue Ridge, West Virginia on a Thursday evening. They went to Aunt Dorothy’s home the next day to start the clean up. They went inside and it was cool inside, almost like goosebump kind of cool with the hair on your arms standing up. This was strange because in that time during the 1970’s in this area, there really wasn’t central heating and air. It was the middle of August and it was hot outside, in the 90’s plus. Typical summer time weather – hot and very humid. But, in the home it was cool and comfortable, almost ice cold. They commented on how it was so cold that you could almost hang meat. But they started to go through the home to see what they wanted, starting with the upstairs.
They found the key to the locked room that once belonged to Aunt Dorothy’s brother John. The room had just been locked and never touched – as if he was returning back home one day and it was just frozen in time. There was a book on the bedside table that was still marked where he had left off from reading. Clothes were still scattered about the room. The bed was still made. There was a partial letter written on the desk to an old friend that was never finished. The room had a eerie feeling like someone was still there and it was cold in this room as well. One thing that was strange about the room. There was no cob webs, no dust, nothing that looked like this room had been vacant for over 15 years. It was bizarre but they figured Aunt Dorothy had been in dusting. But why dust and not pick up the scattered clothing?
Daddy’s father wanted him to go down into the basement alone to check for any tools that they possibly might want to bring home. Daddy being all of 10 said sure. How very brave of him. Each step he took going down into the dark, cold and dank basement, he felt like he was being watched. At times, it was like someone was following him but no one else was there when he looked around. He found some things that they might possibly want and he gathered them up. Slowly, he took everything upstairs with each step still feeling like he was being watched and followed. And yes he was a child and you might be saying that he was scared because of his age. Well, was he? Let’s continue our story.
They stayed at the house on/off for the next couple of days cleaning. They would go back to the hotel each night and return in the hot August weather with the coolness inside of the home. Each day they were there cleaning and fixing things up, the house remained cool like there was an air conditioner on… but there wasn’t one.
On the last day, dad’s mom asked him and his father to start cleaning up the living room area while she was starting in the parlor. There was an old china cabinet that had french doors on the front. When you looked through the glass panes, you could see a locked latch across the front. Dad’s mom tried the doors, but she couldn’t get them open. They were firmly locked. Inside of the china cabinet, there was some sterling silver and china that dad’s mom wanted to take back home.
She didn’t want to break the doors in hopes of selling the antique furniture. On the opposite side of the wall, there was a hutch. She asked for the boys to come over to possibly help find a key to the china cabinet. While the boys were searching the hutch, all of a sudden dad’s mom let out a chilling scream.
They turned around immediately and the french doors to the china cabinet were standing wide open as if someone had opened them both at the same time. Dad’s mom took full advantage of the opportunity and removed the pieces she wanted. Afterwards, she pushed the doors back together and the cabinet locked itself back up. You could hear the click-click sound of the latch going right back to where it was previously.
We took the items we wanted out to the car while dad’s father took the trash out. We came back into the house to lock it up to leave our final time. We noticed that the house had lost the coolness feeling that it had and had become hot just like it was outside in the August air. Three days of air conditioning, goosebump coolness, hair standing on your arms and now hot humid heat. We left that day and never returned.
So mom/dad’s first destination was for dinner at a place called Pappasito’s Cantina located in Marietta, Georgia. They had been here once before a very long time ago and absolutely loved it. They talk about it all of the time so I thought it would bring back some wonderful memories for them to reminisce over.
This is a picture of mom/dad once they got sat at one of the tables. The wait staff is wonderful and so very friendly. They offered to take this picture for mom/dad for their anniversary album. It looks like they are happy with my dining decision, you think?
One of mom’s favorite drinks at the moment is anything with mango. She told the waiter that she wanted something mango, frozen and delicious. He brought back this delightfully frozen concoction. Mommy said it was one of the bestest drinks that she has *ever* had. It had an ultimate mango taste to it – which is something you usually don’t find flavor wise when you order a mango drink. Sometimes you just can’t taste what you order, you know? But this was a Mango Margarita and was right up mom’s alley saying it was awesome. And it was garnished with chunks of strawberries and mango. How lovely huh? Even daddy drunk some and he even loved it too.
During this time while they were enjoying the drinks, they also enjoyed this appetizer with nacho chips. Score one for the piggy because I had a coupon for mom/dad for this free appetizer – a $11.00 value – snorts. They choose a is yellow cheese dip garnished with jalapeno’s, tomatoes, onions and ground beef.
Now both mom/dad totally flipped over these cheese dip. It was spicy but yet not so much that you couldn’t enjoy it. It did have heat though and both mom/dad said that it opened up their sinuses – snorts.
And daddy totally LOVED the nacho chips. They were thin with just enough salt with the heat of the cheese dip and delicious! He couldn’t stay out of the bag and from what mom said, I don’t blame him. I love a crispy hot chip myself!
Then angels started to sing and mom/dad knew their main course have floated to their table from the kitchen. Oh my piggy heaven above! Talk about hog heaven indeed. Let me break it down for you because my mouth was so watering when mommy showed me the pictures. I just wanted to lick the screen so bad!
They ordered filet mignon and Jumbo Shrimp fajitas. It came with rice, frijoles a la charra, pico de gallo and guacamole. Just look at all of that food! Now the shrimp that you see to the left, that is Pappasitos famous shrimp brochette. The shrimp it mesquite-grilled and then stuffed with cheese & fresh jalapenos and if that wasn’t enough – they wrap it with bacon. What bacon?! I can give mom/dad a bone on this one since it was a special occasion. The sauce is a avocado lime butter. Mom said it was heavenly! The dinner also came with fresh flour tortillas. Mom and dad ate to their delight. Daddy told me that there was more groaning going on at the table than what he has heard in such a long time… I’m not sure what that meant.
Can you believe that there was room for an anniversary dessert? There was. And I admit it that I was shocked because mom/dad said they couldn’t finish it all. Amateurs!
They order Cajetas which is coconut pecan crusted vanilla ice cream that was drizzled with chocolate sauce and served with sopapillas – those big puffy things. And do you see the Honey Bear in the picture to the right. He also came served with the dessert so they could pour honey over whatever they wanted to. I asked daddy if Mr. Honey Bear traveled with them to the second destination but he refrained from answering me saying something about me being to young to ask that kind of question. This dessert was as wonderful as the appetizer and meal. Mom said she hasn’t eaten this well in some time and whatever weight she has lost lately probably found it’s way back to her butt and hips – snorts.
So now I leave you with video 2 – enjoy my friends. P.S. Come back Wednesday for more information on the anniversary kidnapping – there is more that you don’t want to miss!
My friend Fozzie and I have scheduled a group posting today of Shopping Around the World. We thought it would be interesting to see the differences between different countries all over.Here are our prices for the following from our area – Georgia USA.
Items to price this month:
Milk. Mom usually buys 1/2 gallon store brand which lately has been on sale for $1.00
Tomatoes. Mom loves Roma tomatoes. They are small but meaty. She bought some for the dinner at $1.29 a pound – that was about 4 tomatoes.
Canned Product. Black beans. How could you possibly go wrong with black beans – especially when you can buy store brand for a $1.00 a can. Mom bought two cans for the meal.
Homemade Dish. Jalapeno Cornbread with Black Beans 🙂 yum – see below
Random Item of your choice. Jalapeno. Mom bought one very large one and it only cost $0.69 the day she was at the market.
Okay my friends. Mommy went easy – really easy on this month’s Shopping Around the World – go mom! She was able to combine all of her prices and items into the Homemade Dish – which is one of our favorites here at the Hotel Thompson.
Jalapeno Cornbread made with with a diced up Jalapeno (according to taste how much you throw in), cup of milk, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 cup of cornmeal and shredded cheddar cheese. We have a small iron skillet that will serve four slices of cornbread. Mix ingredients, except for shredded cheddar cheese, and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. When done turn over skillet onto a plate and top with shredded cheddar cheese.
Black Beans with tomatoes, diced Jalapeno’s and diced red onions. So easy here – snorts. Open store bought black beans and heat over the stove on medium heat. Add a little chicken broth (or whatever broth you have on hand), diced Jalapenos (to taste for heat) and diced tomatoes. When bubbles, turn down to low and stir.
When bread is ready, spoon black beans into bowl and top with more diced tomatoes. Mom even added some cilantro into the mix this date. A meal made for a king and queen. Filling and hot for a cold rainy night that we seem to be having a LOT of lately. Happy eats my friends.
Oh… and this entire meal when you break it down ends up to be around less than $6.00 for two people.
I hope you had fun my friends with this month’s edition of Shopping Around the World. Hope to see you shopping soon!
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They turned around immediately and the french doors to the china cabinet were standing wide open as if someone had opened them both at the same time. Dad’s mom took full advantage of the opportunity and removed the pieces she wanted. Afterwards, she pushed the doors back together and the cabinet locked itself back up. You could hear the click-click sound of the latch going right back to where it was previously.
One of mom’s favorite drinks at the moment is anything with mango. She told the waiter that she wanted something mango, frozen and delicious. He brought back this delightfully frozen concoction. Mommy said it was one of the bestest drinks that she has *ever* had. It had an ultimate mango taste to it – which is something you usually don’t find flavor wise when you order a mango drink. Sometimes you just can’t taste what you order, you know? But this was a Mango Margarita and was right up mom’s alley saying it was awesome. And it was garnished with chunks of strawberries and mango. How lovely huh? Even daddy drunk some and he even loved it too.
During this time while they were enjoying the drinks, they also enjoyed this appetizer with nacho chips. Score one for the piggy because I had a coupon for mom/dad for this free appetizer – a $11.00 value – snorts. They choose a is yellow cheese dip garnished with jalapeno’s, tomatoes, onions and ground beef.
Okay my friends. Mommy went easy – really easy on this month’s Shopping Around the World – go mom! She was able to combine all of her prices and items into the Homemade Dish – which is one of our favorites here at the Hotel Thompson.
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