A belated Halloween post

Here we see our little boo checking out the two pumpkins daddy grew this summer.



Time to carve a pumpkin for Halloween. I chose the larger of the two to actually carve.


I started with a knife but quickly decided that would take way to long.

What to do????

Power Tools! Calling one trusty reciprocating saw.



Okay so Da only took one picture of me at work and didn't think to take video like Kecia and Glen did.

Next I used a knife to do the finer details like eyes, nose and mouth.



Then it was back to the Saw to cut the opening in the back for the blacklight. I managed to cut the opening just right so that it was big enough for the light, yet tight enough to keep the light in place.



And then I set it up, plugged it in, put some tissue across the inside of the face to make him glow better. Here he is all finished.



And behold and be frightened of the final project.



Some facts about this pumpkin. I planted one seed from a package of "Jumbo Sized Pumpkin" seeds from walmart. Like the rest of our small garden it was located in our front flower garden (someday we'll just plan flowers there). It took over the entire patch all to produce two pumpkins. Due to that one plant, we only got a few crookneck from the three hills I planted. If our Tomatoes hadn't grown up higher they probably would have been overwhelmed as well.

This Pumpkin weighed about 75 lbs, the smaller one weighed in at about 55 lbs. According to our bathroom scale that is, so I'm not so sure how accurate it is.

When cut open the rind was almost three inches thick, yet compared to smaller pumpkins it was much easier and less messy to clean. Tommorrow the remains of this Jack-O-Lantern will go in the trash, but what am I to do with the other pumpkin? Anyone want to make many, many, many pies?

And since Kecia asked. Here is Boo in his costume. He did better than last year by lasting for about 15 minutes in it (last year he cried the entire five minutes we had him costumed for pictures.) So only the one picture. This and some similar costumes will be seen over the next few years, as Da is somewhat lazy when it comes to choosing costumes, and thus we rely on the stock pile of M&M costumes her sister has for her kids. They have at least one for each year/age group at least through age five or six. (okay maybe not that many but they have several of these costumes).