Angela's Halloween bat gets my tick of approval. :)

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Is Monday trying to apss his ticks on to Angela?

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As this is the critter thread, here is a critter.

This Spitty for those of you who may not have been introduced before.

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Hiya Spitty! Nice to see your lovely kitty face again!

Silly human, Pet me, no pictures.

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BOINC WIKI

Grace says Hi!

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Two-headed Cat 'Frankenlouie' Turns 12 In Worcester, Mass. (VIDEO and Story @ the link below) 12 Years old, Wow, from what I've read most don't live too long or are put to sleep, this one is loved.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/two-headed-cat-frankenlouie-turns-12_n_984158.html

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Whilst I hail from a country that does not really celebrate Halloween is a"Halloween Village" a normal thing?

My Halloween village is like a miniature Christmas village, only creepy. Eric posted a picture of it last year in a previous Critter Cafe. And no, it is not "normal" to have a Halloween village.

I celebrate Halloween for the entire month of October. I have a wall-sized cabinet in our garage dedicated to my Halloween stuff. I have to weed things out of my collection every year just to keep it from expanding beyond the garage area dedicated to it.

I have a good sized collection of Halloween tops and vests and scarves that I wear to work EVERY work day in October. And don't even get me started on the Halloween jewelry I own. Not many people own candy corn necklaces or enchanting pieces from the "bewitching bones" collection. On the weekends I don "casual wear" - Halloween t-shirts and Halloween socks. I have a Halloween cardigan in case it gets chilly.

I send out more Halloween cards than Christmas cards. I generally have several Halloween celebrations across the month. For nearly 23 years I have been responsible for making my co-workers gain weight in October by keeping a giant cauldron in a charting area filled with all kinds of candy treats. (I put peanuts and little boxes of raisins in the cauldron too because one gal I work with is diabetic. The peanuts and raisins are rarely popular.)

As a surprise gift one year, Eric worked with a local artist and commissioned a very large bat for me made of paper mache and wire. I have that bat hanging in my den year round. It is a beautiful work of art.

I tend to give normal dinner entrees creepy names in October. No matter what I serve Eric, I guarantee I will name it something that makes it seem a whole lot less appealing than it actually is. And I make my poor husband drink his coffee out of a pumpkin mug for 31 consecutive days. He hates this because my pumpkin mugs (I have a set of several dozen) are so large that if he fills the mug completely his coffee stays hot for far too long and if he half fills the mug his coffee cools off far too quickly.

None of this is "normal" and I have an extremely tolerant husband.

This is awesome. I thought my family took Halloween seriously!! LOL!!

For us it was was always the biggest celebration of the year when I was growing up. My mum would throw a huge Halloween party, this was in the UK before Halloween got big there. We'd go out trick or treating in a gang of about 20 kids (and the dog) and no one would know what we were doing. We'd get doors slammed in our faces and people yelling "This isn't America, go away!!!" Some people would still try to give us stuff though. We used to walk 30 minutes to get to he rich houses, because the ones that bothered to answer the door would often find cookies or give us money after we had explained the rules to them.

I also had to explain to people that actually Halloween isn't 'American', it's Celtic and celebrated in Scotland and Ireland.

Before pumpkins were discovered Jack O'Lanterns were carved from turnips. I had to do this one year because I left it too late to buy a pumpkin. Carving pumpkins is easier though.

With Halloween being a such huge deal for us everyone was rather amused when my second baby's due date was on Halloween. We didn't expect him to be born on time though. However, he was determined to be born in this date and although I went into labour on the early morning of the 30th he held on until Halloween itself and was born at 3.30 am. I got myself discharged from hospital by 5.30am and made it home to carve a pumpkin. That's how seriously we take Halloween. :)

However, I think you take the crown for being serious about Halloween, because I'm pretty sure we've never had a Halloween village. I'd like to see your bat. They have some pretty cool ones on sale in Winners right now and I might get one to add to my slowly growing box of Halloween decorations. (one year my friend who used to work in London Zoo let us go into the bat cave on Halloween for my son's birthday, which was nice)

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Ah Yes, the Batcave...

Yeah Angela is serious, but then pretending is fun, If I were in better shape I'd even look good enough to drive the 60's Batmobile in full costume.

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Silly human, Pet me, no pictures.

Actually that's pretty close !

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ES

That was an interesting comment, and I can see you moving more and more towards a "like Angela" Halloween celebration.

Best of luck.

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ES

That was an interesting comment, and I can see you moving more and more towards a "like Angela" Halloween celebration.

Best of luck.

Yes, probably a bit rambling though.

It is hard to arrange a big Halloween now with a birthday on the same day. I might have to wait until the spud is grown up before I can begin to compete with Angela in earnest.

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Dog or Teddy Bear?

Boo

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No!

A fighting skunk like this one!

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The "AAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!" factor is high in here this morning! Greetings fellow critter lovers!

And the Badgers be lookin' for popcorn tonight.....

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Good morning oh tough pummeler, yeah the baby skunk is cute.

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And the Badgers be lookin' for popcorn tonight.....

Yeah baby!!!

And "hi" Vic!

Raccoon sighting!...I want to report that i saw a raccoon enjoying a feast in the radio station's big garbage can as i drove into the parking lot this morning...As the raccoon saw me approach in my car...it jumped off the can and ran merrily away.

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PROUD TO BE TFFE!

Darn! You caught me. (And the station's garbage is delicious!!!)