Tales of Home [3]

I dont have any pumkins, at least not ones Im willing to show, but I took these pics last night, there is something about the orangey street light I always think is a bit eerie-

2 other pumpkins (not mine).

Loving the Grim Reaper one.

the grim reaper looks like an alien.. freaky D:

It's not yet dark here but we've already had a trick-or-treater (a little girl who apparently has a really early bedtime).  My mom and I finished our pumpkins just in the nick of time to get them out there.  This is my first time carving pumpkins in at least five years and I don't have those fancy pumpkin carving knives anymore, so I was working with regular kitchen instruments.  But all things considered I think they turned out nicely.



This is my mom's pumpkin.  She was trying to replicate the Minion one we saw yesterday at the farm.  But even if it's not the most Minion-y, it's still pretty scared-looking, which works for Halloween.



This one is my pumpkin.  When I was younger and carved pumpkins for Halloween I always just carved pretty generic faces with eyes, a triangular nose, and a toothy grin.  But this year, being the first time doing pumpkins in a long time, I wanted to try something different.  Tto be honest it turned out better than I thought it would given my utter lack of artistic talent.

I'll take better pictures once it's dark.

I do hope poor Dave doesnt happen to wander by after a hard days harvesting only to be confronted with this mutilation of veg (it is veg isnt it?  Looks like veg  )

I'm pretty sure pumpkins are technically fruit.

NB @ Lance and Petty: I like you pictures!

pumpkins are technically fruit. - Eldo

Thats just as bad- have you ever tried deep frying fruit  

ooh.. looks like fun

So we had our first trick-or-treaters come by around 5:00 PM, with the rush really starting about 45-60 minutes after that, and for the first time ever we ran out of candy. We had about 150 pieces from my trip to the grocery store earlier this week, and gave out a strict one piece per person, and we were commpletely out by 7:30.  Fortunately the rush was dying down by that point, in part because it was beginning to rain, but still we've never run out of candy before.  There's definitely more trick-or-treaters on our street, and I think in the entire neighborhood, then there were when I was younger.  Which is great because I love that my neighborhood is big on Halloween and I want it to continue.

Also, a bunch of people took pictures of my pumpkin and gave me compliments on it. We got a couple good shots of it after dark; this one's my favorite.

 

a bit embarrased.. only now did i see it was supposed to be a cat.. 

Eldo - looks like we may need to have a 'pumpkin-off' next year!!

That sounds like a Wholesome Tale in the brewing to me.  

omg YES! a pumpkin-off next year!

Norc wrote:a bit embarrased.. only now did i see it was supposed to be a cat.. 

Took me a while too to figure out why Eldo was so proud of the twisted uni-eye. Once I 'saw' it, it made sense.  

Gee, thanks guys. Hopefully next year I'll do better. I might try to invest in better pumpkin carving tools than an ordinary paring knife too.

Lancebloke wrote:Eldo - looks like we may need to have a 'pumpkin-off' next year!!

That would be fun. I haven't done much with Halloween for a while but I blast this year.

  pumpkin-off

is there special pumkin-carving tools in the US? really?!

There are here too

Yeah, most kitchen knives aren't really designed with an eye towards making detailed decorative carvings.

Use a sgian-dubh  Handy for everything except getting through airports.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Use a sgian-dubh  Handy for everything except getting through airports.

say what?  is that a Scotshobbits shin grazer thing.

Yeah, well it is if your a guest. Its a small versatile blade kept hidden under the armpit for emergencies.
These days its worn openly thrust into the top of your sock, this goes back to when a Highlander was a guest, when it went against the Highland code to carry a concealed weapon, so it was moved to plain sight at such times.

Its pronounced skee-an-doo.