Halloween Porch Crawl 2022

 

“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen. The moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween,”

A Witch’s Journal

Is your neighborhood looking to do something fun for Halloween? Well, it may be too late for this year but it is time to start planning for next years events. My husband and I were invited to a porch crawl in Olde Town, Augusta and hung out with all the ghost and goblins as we traipsed from house to house celebrating and had a blast. We are blessed being a part of this group and are lucky to be able to call them all friends. There were close to 50 people who attended the porch crawl.

Photo - courtesy of Birkie

This year there were four houses on the crawl and all were within a two block radius so it was easy walking. Many people dressed up in disguise but costumes were optional. Each home had a forty minute window where people could come and check out how you decorated your home and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Each home put out snacks and each home had a specialty drink.

photo - courtesy of Katarina

We converged on Carmen’s home first. Her home was nicely decorated and so was she. Her house is always a fun place to visit as she has the most unique and beautiful art throughout her home. Walking up to her home, we were greeted by a skeleton walking his three skeleton dogs. When I got up on the porch, I noticed the two ghouls pressed up against her front window peering in wishing to be participants of the gathering. There were people inside and outside chatting it up. Her specialty drink was put in medical blood bags. How bloody creative.

photo - courtesy of Katarina

She had various foods placed on the table with a centerpiece of a bare white tree adorned with skeleton faces. She had another table with ghoulish desserts including bloody fingers cookies that were delicious shortbread. As we left to go to the next house, there were gift bags for everyone to take that had a chocolate covered apple and glow sticks. How special.

Photo courtesy of Katerina

Our next stop was at Deborah and Barry’s home. She had a flying black apparition hanging from her front porch and a decorated table set out with a specialty drink and glasses ready for all to partake. She had a lovely spread with roasted hot dogs with all the fixings, Tator Tots, sweet snack packs, delicious pumpkin muffins, chips and more. The food was amazing and the drink superb. The centerpiece was an skeleton with glowing eyes wearing a pumpkin head dress. Barry was dressed up in his fancy Halloween suit, Deborah was in a witches costume, and their co host, Amy was dressed up as a Cereal killer. Loved it.

photo - courtesy of Katinera

photo - courtesy of Katerina

Confederate Rose

Photo - courtesy of Katarina

Tony and Kat - courtesy of Katerina

Our next stop was Birkie and Carol’s home. They has their lovely side porch decked out with Halloween decorations. Entering their porch was a lit candelabra with sweet treats to munch on. Halloween pillows graced their bench. Birkie had savaged an old mantel from his office and that was perfectly set up and decorated with cobwebs and spiders which was the centerpiece of one wall of the porch. Bob, the butler for the night, greeted everyone with a plate. Her fancy specialty drink was displayed on the table adorned with floating eyeballs. She had delicious chicken wings, tasty dips, desserts with grave markers cookies on them and ghost cupcakes. These were all artistically set up on s spider web tablecloth.

Photo - courtesy of Katarina

photo - courtesy of Joe

photo - courtesy of Katarina

Then to our last stop, Beth and Frances. We were guided to their back yard where they had a roaring fire going in their large fire pit. There was a welcoming pumpkin bucket on the porch with with dry ice creating a dense white fog. They had a projector set up with a classic silent movie and Halloween music playing in the background. Skeleton man was resting under the shade of a tree enjoying his night watching the festivities. She had a lovely spread with dips, fancy pastries with decorated eyes staring back at you, crock pot meatballs, and fancy cookies. Her beautiful centerpiece was decorated with skulls and candelabras.

A good time was had by all and any reason is a good reason to get together with friends. This event had not happened for a couple years so we were thrilled it is happening again. Thank you to all who made this event so special. Your hard work did not go unnoticed. Could this work in your neighborhood? Think about it. It could be fun. Happy Halloween.

Till next time. Bye for now.