I have crafted my first pumpkin! Granted, I have been involved in festivities when I was much younger, like 22 years younger, where pumpkins were carved. But this is my first time carving my very own personal pumpkin, though to be fair it was both Scott and mine. This is a bad picture, and it is of a pumpkin and a cat.
It is Halloween today, and I am sure most of my friends are engaged in all sorts of pagan rituals. Actually, I am not sure most or all or, really, any are engaged in any sort of ritual. I will be engaged in an ancient ritual myself, handing out candy. Also known as eating more candy than you hand out until you make yourself sick. I can't wait until I have my own kids and get to go through their candy when they aren't looking. My brother and I always seemed to candy rather quickly, although I only remember trick'er'treating once. And I got the BEST popcorn ball, back when you could hand out home made treats.
Here is my scary image of the day: the two headed kitten!! Of course for even scarier images head over to kitten wars, the bloodbath is unbelievable!
Happy Halloween! Does anybody happen to be dressed up today? I am a 1960's secretary, which is pretty close to what I really do.
I'm not dressed up currently but I'll probably wrap up in some tinfoil later to get free food at "the chipot".
Posted by: jeff at October 31, 2006 08:15 AMI miss free chipolte nights, man, if only we didn't have kids... I should remind Scott, maybe he can drive over during lunch. He's closer to a chipolte than I am. Yummy....
Posted by: 10lees at October 31, 2006 09:28 AMI attempted to wrap myself with foil earlier, but it was futile due to the wind ripping off anything more than about a foot of foil. I ended up just wrapping some around my head, and then when in there discovered they would have provided a small square of foil for the costumeless, and even given burritos to those who refused to wear that. Oh well, at least I played fair.
Posted by: Jeremy at October 31, 2006 04:06 PMGah, I thought it was actually going to be a picture of a two-headed kitten. I think I have seen a picture of a two-headed kitten...
I know I have seen a picture of a two-headed turtle.
In any case, nice pumpkin.
Posted by: babada at November 1, 2006 10:40 AMGoodness gracious me I forgot how cute your kitten is. That and was anybody else thrown off by the pupkin. I don't know what my problem was but I couldn't focus my eyes on what was left over and kept looking at the carved spot. So I was thinking that you almost had a dolphin or maybe it was an elephant or something. I.. was... wrong
Posted by: at November 1, 2006 04:52 PMI like the pumpkin. We bought one like 3 weeks ago and had big plans to carve it, and did it get carved? Nope! I'm pretty sure we are still going to chop off the top and cook up the seeds. Yummy!
Posted by: Nicole at November 2, 2006 01:00 PMOh we ended up throwing away our pumpkin seeds, I am not a huge fan. I did find out that to make pumpkin pie you need sugar pumpkins, not regular pumpkins.
Sorry about the lack of a real two headed kitten, although I have to say as soft of a spot as I have for animals I don't think I could stand having a two headed cat.
Yeah the pumpkin pic wasn't that great and it was blurry, but I am glad you kinda got it!
Posted by: 10lees at November 2, 2006 09:17 PMI think it's very cute - and thanks for the heads up on the making pumpkin pie filling - I'll keep that in mind if I ever do it from true scratch.
Love,
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