Pumpkins Past

I thought I'd start off the new blog by giving you a look at some of the jack-o-lanterns I've carved over past couple of years.

Through August as summer winds down and the Halloween season gears up I plan to do a look back at past years and feature decorations, projects, really whatever comes to mind... and what came to mind first was pumpkins!

Each year I drag... did I saw drag... I didn't mean drag... my husband to a pumpkin patch an hour away from where we live to pick a small army of pumpkins. In all honesty I really don't have to drag him anymore.. he's long since come over to the crazy side of Halloween (probably an "if you can't beat them join them" thing).

Why an hour away you ask? Because it's the best place ever- it's practically pumpkins as far as you can see and they're actually in the real fields where they grew not a sterilized version of a field. Something about it is very "Great pumpkin Charlie Brown", old fashioned, authentic... I don't know it's kind of like my dream place.

After we've brought home a small pumpkin army to festoon the porch I asses the "blank spots" in what we've come home with. You see I tend to get a bit carried away in the excitement of it all (like you couldn't tell) and come home with a lot of what happened to strike my fancy during the trip. We often end up with a lot of one type of pumpkin- too many huge ones, not enough tall ones, that sort of thing. That's when I go around to a few of the local places and "fill in the gaps".

A few days before Halloween we carve them up. I've loved doing this since I was kid and have carved at least one pumpkin every year since probably age 4 or 5 (even when I was in college and living in the dorms).

It just wouldn't seem like Halloween without them!