Halloween!

How could I miss the chance to include some pumpkins in my posting!  I have always loved pumpkins and that is one thing that hasn’t changed.  I had one year where I wasn’t involved with growing them and this year I went all out again.  My kids and my nieces had a one acre plot of pumpkins, their intent was to sell them this fall and they did.  I think when it’s all said and done they took in close to 1500 dollars!

One of the perks of having your own private pumpkin patch is that you get to keep pretty much whatever you want.  So I’m going to show you a few and leave the deep philosophical musings for another day.  The first pumpkin is about the most perfect a pumpkin can be.  I didn’t want to carve this one, it will get eaten in a few days!

The second is one that became known as buttkin, it is two pumpkins that grew together.  Ugly compared to the first, but beautiful in its own way.

The last two are carved up pictures of the ones we did.   The very last is a closeup of buttkin, so you can see how I made it have a happy and sad face.  We won’t win awards for carving, but we had a good time and froze our fingers as the pumpkins were nearly frozen when we cleaned them out.  Happy Halloween everyone!