Carving a pumpkin is not an easy task. For starters, you need a lot of artistic talent. Beyond that, you need imagination and a good set of extremely sharp carving tools. It looks like someone found a good use for one of the pumpkins I photographed at the Mariposa fruit stand. (Thursday's post)
We are not big on Halloween at our house. When our children were small, we would often take them on a special outing to avoid the begging madness. I have great memories of Halloween from young days as a boy growing up in a small prairie town. It was lots of good clean fun, at least until one of us fell into the pit when were pushing over outhouses in the dark.
Today, we just kind of go along with it and hand out all the diabetes and tooth decay inducing goodies to the cute little kids that come to the door with their parents lurking in the background. We will see what happens tonight.
If you happen to come by with your humongous pillow case open and ready to accept more sugar, don't expect any of those mini Coffee Crisp bars from the mulit-pak. I have already eaten all of them.
3 comments:
As a child you confused me. Some years you would let us go trick or treating...other years we would do a family outing instead.
And now...some years you hand out candy and other years you shut out the lights and hide!
Make up your mind already :)
As for my kids they get to do whatever they like on Halloween. This year it means Nathan stays hom (he's not keen on Halloween) and Chad wants to trick or treat until his feet fall off. Yippee!
Good attitude, Rachel. They'll figure it all out. Nathan already has.
We have never turned out the lights and hidden. There may have been one or two years that we were away and did not hand out treats. We have a big box of goodies waiting for tonight. We do have it figured out.
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