We did it! Carved our pumpkins. Last year we ran out of time. The year before that, we forgot.
This year ALMOST didn't happen.
Seems this year's weather is the pumpkin's enemy.
Most of them are on the ground, rotting. My DH bought three good sized ones on Wednesday
so we could have them for today. By Friday, they were rotting out from the bottom and sinking into themselves.
Yes, he checked them before he bought them, but you can't see what is going on INSIDE the fruit.
And they were not cheap! So, yesterday in the pouring rain, we went back to the farm and asked to exchange the rotting pumpkins in the back of our car for solid ones.
The lady who answered the door was snippy to my DH and told him, "Just do what you have to do." {{HUH?}} She turned around and went back into the house. She didn't want the rotting pumpkins back.
So, he roamed around and around, picking up the pumpkins and trying to make the best decision. So we now have three imploding pumpkins probably only good for seeds and three carving gems.
I will tell you, it's not fun to carve outside with frigid winds ablowing through your coat as if you were in your shirtsleeves.
Brrrrrr.
We did it, though. Want to see? Two were templates we got off of the computer and one is from a design my eldest drew himself. Isn't that cool? Can you guess which pumpkin design is my eldest's???
