DeeBye,Oct 29 2005, 11:34 PM Wrote:Here's a picture of my absolutely pathetic jack o' lantern.
It looks like a dork. Look at it. It seems to be saying "I'm a huge huge dork!". I suck at carving pumpkins :(
Before I ruined it with my knife, I spent some time with my son washing the pumpkin. We put it in the bathtub and scrubbed it down. We then dried it and showed mommy how clean it was.
Then I cut the top off and scooped out the guts. Mommy and my son scattered at this point. They both said "EW YUCKIE!" and ran away. I perservered and scooped the guts out and separated out the seeds. It took me a lot longer than I originally thought it would.
This flesh on this pumpkin was a lot thicker than anything I recall from my youth. It's about 2" thick. The flesh around the top is about 3". This made for some tough carving.
I am a determined father though. I said that I would carve a pumpkin, and I did. It's not a great pumpkin face, but I tried.
On a more happier note, the seeds that we salvaged from the pumpkin were plentiful and made for GREAT roasting seeds. They taste great.
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I'd show you my kids pumpkin carvings, but sadly, they melted yesterday and I had to clean up the moldy orange blob this morning - well to be honest, my wife cleaned most of it up while I was at work. I was hoping they would last till at least tommrow. <_< Oh well. The kids had a great time carving up the pumpkins and that's all that really matters, although showing the pumpkins off on display for trick-or-treaters is kind of exciting in a strange sort of way. Guess I won't have to worry about pumpkin bandits this year!
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