The *new* Barrow Downs photo page!

[the phantom]

Luckily, all three of my kids have their mother's good looks.

What? Not your good looks, too? Is that why you made sure your back was turned in the pic?

Just kidding, of course. I'm sure you are just being humble.

It's okay for adults to paint their faces and bodies, wear goofy clothes, participate in unusual rituals and get all drunked up and shout at other persons playing a child's game (football, basketball, etc), yet if I were to don a cloak and sword and play 'LOTR,' then I must be some kind of NUT.

Ha ha. Good point there. Worst case scenario would be that both kinds of people are nuts, because that makes me doubly nuts, being both a sports fan and a LOTR fan.

Oh no, they're not hurt. Those people/horses just fell down...

Ha ha ha!

yet run screaming from Santa

That's a natural reaction. I ran from Santa when I was three. Well, I tried to run anyway, but my preschool teacher picked me up and plopped me forcibly onto his lap. I then proceeded to ease Santa's hurt feelings with a "I don't like you! I wanna go!"