Shiver Me Timbers

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This old gal…

Has been wanting to go to a Renaissance Fair…love that type of thing…dress up…fantasy…thematic…

Found one just up the road…a beautiful day…the perfect location…a great way to fill an afternoon…but it did more than that…

It filled the cup for theme loving me to the brim and overflowing…it was breathtaking…enchanting…a journey back in time…

Walked the paths surrounded by fairies, gnomes, princes and knights…cheered at the jousting match…enjoyed a cottage pie…engaged with the dragon and the tall tree man…

Was swept away with the magic of it all and thought, ‘Those daughters of mine would have loved this when they were little’…then thought, Those daughters of mine would love this TODAY’…dressing up…pretending…

Then thought about that box at home…tucked away…that Halloween year of Excalibur costumes…how fun that would be to take part…officially take part…then thought about that reserved husband of mine and tucked that thought away…

Until…what to my wondering eyes should I see…pirates…yea, that’s right, pirates…a pirate stage with pirate songs and lots of other pirate things…

Have always been obsessed with pirates…the storybook pirate…the rogue…the scoundrel…the Captain Jack Sparrow…sailing the seas…searching for treasure…

And that got the wheels turning…that box…that tucked away costume box full of Excalibur gear…has pirate things in it too…

And so it is…what some landlubber doesn’t know…won’t hurt him…until someone packs the pirate garb next year and then Shiver Me Timbers…there’ll be some convincing to do…
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And that matey of mine…Arrrrr…agrees…