coming out of my shell

coming out of my shell

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Halloween approaching

I bought a pumpkin, but I can't put it outside or the Florida heat will make it rot.  So it is sitting in my dining room until Halloween.  Sometimes I buy two so that both Tom and I get a chance to carve one.  I don't think I will this year.  I'm not all that interested.  

Our granddaughter was home from college last weekend, so I got two small pumpkins for her and her brother.  I thought they might like to paint them, but they insisted on carving.  They turned out pretty cute.




16 comments:

  1. I prefer painting them. They don't rot as fast. but those are cute.

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    1. I really thought they'd want to paint them since it was so early. Oh well.

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  2. Those wacky pumpkins made me smile!
    We cut our hole in the bottom to clean out the insides and it is easier to put over a candle then.

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  3. I can't say that I'm sorry to have passed this tradition onto my daughters to do with their kids. Still, nothing says "Halloween" like newspaper soaked with pumpkin guts all over the kitchen : )

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  4. Halloween is a big deal here in Northern Ireland, with Halloween decorations on lots of houses. We don't bother to decorate but that doesn't deter the trick or treaters. We had some yesterday, five days early, and of course didn't have anything to give them. No doubt they'll be back on the 31st!

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  5. I'm surprised your offspring are able to joke about a subject which seems to penetrate right into the bone-marrow of most of the North American population. Laugh at TV or even sport, if you will, but never laugh at that holiest of personal concerns: orthodontics. I remember reading - in some US publication or other - an article about the UK's greatest post-war prime minister which dismissed all his political achievements on the grounds that his teeth were irregular. I always thought that this obsession with teeth which went way beyond matters of health (eg, enshrining a belief that shiny white gnashers were essentially a necessary symbol of belonging to the US middle classes) was, ironically, unhealthy.

    Hence I worry about one of the carved pumpkins.

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    1. I'm not that kind of an American who obsesses about teeth, although I DID pay ten million dollars (or something like that) for braces for my daughter. It's ridiculous.

      Don't worry about the pumpkin. He doesn't care either.

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  6. Even sitting inside in air conditioning, my Granddaughter's prematurely carved Jack O'Lantern Cat grew long Mold Hair and had to be tossed before Halloween.

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    1. Of course that makes it extra special spooky.

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So, whadayathink?