Daddy Diary - Day 4: The Chilly Willies

From the Desk of Jase:

As luck would have it, we actually live not far from the Plascassier town cemetery. It's a small, quaint cemetery, and our kids are fascinated by it. Lots of cool family tombs, with some tasteful mementos and touching French phrases engraved on the tombstones. The kids like to go for short walks there because we can literally watch the bats fly around the village church belfry and see some new fresh flowers left behind. Here's what the front gate looks like.

Well, during October, the kids decided to bring their own belongings to the cemetery. This resulted in the following photos:

Note the careful attention to the "belly up" pose.

Yes, even though I have no indication that this cemetery was a mystical place used by the Native Americans in ancient days, apparently it is also a Pet Cemetery. As anyone will tell you (seriously--anyone, just ask your buddy on the Greyhound bus), next to "Howard the Duck", the scariest movie ever made is Pet Sematary. It takes everything cute and fluffy, like housecats, small children, and scalpels and brings them to terrifying levels. Even Stephen King, after writing the novel, "put it away" for a time, fearing that maybe he went too far.

Lest you report me to Child Protective Services, I did NOT explain the premise of this novel/movie to my kids, but it didn't stop us from reenacting this scene from Churchhill ("Church") the cat.

Okay, I am ready to admit some slight concern that this tomb has been shattered open, even though we saw nothing inside. Because it escaped??? We'll just hold our breath until we're done passing this cemetery now.

Moving on to finish our last creepy items at the Villa...