Catching Up - Arrr! There be Pirates and Witches!

The skeleton crew is joining Marfi at Marfi-topia for some spooky fun leading up to Halloween.

This week is sort of a catch-up on last week's celebrating and road trip! 

 Last week, in addition to Stephen King's birthday we also celebrated International Talk Like a Pirate Day. With two parties on the schedule, we had some serious sprucing up to do! Ivy volunteered to sweep up the patio but we knew it was just an excuse so she could sneak off and fly around the neighborhood when we weren't looking. Of course, she returned in time to take part in the festivities.

Burt took charge of the refreshments because we couldn't be pirates without rum!

His Madness led the singing.

There's nothing like a round of sea shanties fueled by an excess of spirits!

 Finally, we moved onto the religious aspect, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's great to have a deity you can pay homage to by consuming it! Apart from it being a day to indulge in rum and odd speaking patterns, it was also intended to be a raise money for worthy causes. After all, we don't want to act like pirates, just talk like them. This year we made a donation to the Red Cross Hurricane relief fund with the hope that it will help both North and South Carolina and Puerto Rico, too.

A couple days later we made our way across the state to visit our friends, Laura and Gene. They had just started decorating for Halloween and had recently found this jack-o'-lantern online at Kohl's.

Gene has created quite a number of Santa's in his day but this is his first ever witch! 

This lady definitely has a lot of character but she doesn't seem too wicked.

Neither does her spider, although I swear I've seen that face before. Doesn't she look familiar?

Of course, no self-respecting witch would be seen without a cute, warty toad. Ribbit, ribbit!

Eeek! I'm afraid I'm already really behind in my decorating for Halloween!

Have you started yet?

Hope you had a very Happy Haunted Humpday and thanks for stopping by!