Pumpkin-ing

     Blondie and I went to a local farm's pumpkin patch with my brother and his family, Sunday.  I am all about Halloween, it's my favorite holiday, so I was really excited to do my yearly hay ride and pumpkin search. My nephews spent an hour picking out perfect pumpkins even though they all pretty much looked the same if you asked me.  I think the hardest part was the fact that they were all REALLY good pumpkins in every variety. I found a perfect  fat, dark orange one though and bought it, well Blondie bought it for me, and were currently debating what do do with it now. I stuck a couple miniature pumpkins in my pants for my cats also because kitties need Halloween fun too but I'm too cheap to actually buy it for them. While one of my nephews was off getting a bat face-painted on his forehead, I bought the most delicious apple cider I've ever had.  I actually just bought it because it was in the cup with the cool krazy-straw but it ended up being so good! Sadly, the perfect pumpkin we picked out had the stem broken off during the car ride home, I knew we should have placed it in the back seat with the seat belt on like last year.  Thankfully, Blondie did some pumpkin surgery with a paper clip and hot-glue to get the stem back on. It's sitting in my kitchen now, I think we'll carve it this week and bake the pumpkin seeds.  I really want to carve something awesome into it but I feel like my pumpkin carving skills are limited so no matter what I do it'll look like crap. I think I should probably just stick with a jackolatern face or maybe draw a kitty on it like last year.
-J.W.