Coolest Neighbor Award
October 12, 2011
I love it when people decorate their homes for Halloween, especially when it’s not too gory and oh so clever. I’m not one to go all out for this particular holiday, we just don’t get a lot of trick-or-treating kids at my door. But just around the corner, the kids all flock to to Mic’s place, he’s a legend. I just had to share the coolest Halloween house in my neighborhood.
Meet Captain Mic, a true buccaneer at heart.
Mic’s wife stamps hundreds of those bags every year and fills them with treasure for all the kids (chocolate doubloons and candy gems inside).
On an ordinary day the house looks like this:
For Halloween, Mic transforms it into a pirate ship! This was last year’s version, he built the bow, raised the mast, hoisted the sails, and took over as Captain of the Mourning Star.
iPhone pictures do not do her justice, the “ship” is simply incredible! All the kids in town love this stop along the trick-or-treat trail.
Skeleton pirates fire the homemade cannon (check out the chain and rope details) and they walk the plank that Mic also constructed, aarrgghh.
To get to the door, you must pass through this skull arbor, beware!
On the lawn is this coffin raft he built, I love all of the details, the pulley, the ropes, the bamboo oar, and the rat!
Captain Mic pulls out an old rowboat and fills it with another skeleton pirate.
Get near the front door to ask for candy and this scurvy dog awaits.
Mic definitely gets in the spirit of Halloween with his incredible pirate ship house! It’s fantastic by day, but veeery spooky at night, all lit up with his pirate music playing.
Mic couldn’t be nicer and the kids love the big show. He definitely gets my vote for the Coolest Neighbor Award. Got any spooktacular Halloween houses in your neighborhood?
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Tags: halloween, pirate house
that’s nuts! very cool though. In Australia here we don’t ‘do’ Halloween (it’s only recently come into it’s own in the last few years where we are and unfortunately it’s mostly commercial-based ie shops trying to sell more stuff)
but if it’s important to your family/culture for your own reasons then of course. I just think it’s a pretty cool setup and yay for someone getting ‘into’ the theme of things
Kudos to Mic!!! How fabulous for the kids in your neighborhood to be able to stop off there!! What incredible attention to detail! Hats off…not anything that awesome in my neighborhood!! Thanks for sharing Kate!!
Wow! My jaw literally dropped when I saw these photos. How fun is this?! Got to show my daughter when she gets home from school. She’ll love it!
That is amazing!! I might like Halloween if MY neighbors decorated like that.
oh my, That’s amazing! Tell Mic thank you for keeping the spirit of fun and adventure alive. Too many people forget that it’s about having fun and enjoying that fun with others. Seriously wish I could see it in real life. What a creative spirit he has!
We have many pirates here in St Augustine. I wish someone would do something half as cool in this town. That just looks so amazing.
Awesome!!!
That is awesome! Seems like creativity is overflowing in your neighborhood, you, your neighbors. Maybe I need to move there…
That is fantastic! I love when people really get into the spirit of Halloween and Trick or Treat. I know I am already getting my decorations ready to go :)
Can’t stop sharing this! Great post! He puts all the spook houses to shame!
Very Cool! Gotta love fun creative neighbors!!
That is amazing! Makes me want to come trick-or-treat in your hood
~laughing~ That is just FANTASTIC!
Growing up we had a few neighbors who went all out, and made a lot of great memories for the kids… but, none of them came close to this.
Thanks for the smiles, ya scurvy dogs!
Awesome! Mic is making memories that the kids will have for a lifetime.
This is by far the most creative halloween outdoor home setup… How cool that he gets the neighborhood kids excited and creates great memories they’ll have to last a lifetime!! He must be one of those kids at heart kind’a guy ;) Wish every adult would keep a bit of that~
Wow! That puts our display to shame. What an incredible job he & his wife do! Thanks for sharing.
THAT IS AWESOME!!!
Oh my gosh! That is way cool! So fun for the kids – and adults!! Love all the small details. That is truly incredible. THanks for sharing!
Amazing neighbors you have! I can’t even begin to imagine all of the time and energy (and $$$) that goes into this every single year. It makes me tired just thinking about it. Thank goodness for people like Mic.
He wins coolest neighbor hands down! Sometimes I put up a seadog cemetery with goofy pirates & dress as pirates to give out candy but nothing like this!
That is absolutely amazing! I love it.
We don’t really do halloween in my neighbourhood. I sometimes get kids from across the road trick or treating, but nobody decorates their houses.
Oh, that is the coolest!
WOW WOW WOW!!! Tell Mic he may have some trick-or-treaters from Chicago next year. That is something I wish every kid could experience…and us grown-up kids too. Thanks for posting it, we love it!
Wow!!!!! Really amazing! And I thought I decorated alot…….not even close.
Soooo cool, if you don’t mind, just reblogged on my tumblr!!!!
Loved it!!!
Ok, seriously… how much fun is that??? I don’t know that I have ever seen a house so well decorated for Halloween… so realistic.. kudos!!
He should leave that up all year. Who doesn’t want to live by a pirate!?
AAARGH you serious?? That Pirate House conversion rocks! Kudos to your neighbors!
very nice–except for the shredded Japanese national flag. What does he have against Japan? Wonder why he didn’t do that to an American flag…
Oh wow, this is ridiculously fun. Wish we could go trick-o-treating in YOUR neighborhood this year!
From a fellow person who LOVES halloween – Using word like thats cool, amazing or anything else fall short of a ”WONDER” because thats what it is. Hoilday,like Christmas and Thankgiving have been to death. Halloween is a day that is ment for the kids to have fun. Unlike thankgiving I would like to see someone cook all day then take all that food they made and give it to a someone anyone then go out and get a burger. Or christmas buy whatever they get and the gift they get and got out give it to random people THATS THE SPIRIT of the hoildays. And Mic is a kid not at heart but he kept what it is to be a kid. I hope Mic does win and if anybody doesn’t like it or what he used well in short SCREW YOU show what spirit you have