The Grace College Mu Kappa chapter invited us over for a bonfire and pumpkin carving. They invite us to quite a number of activities, but this is one that I don't miss if I can help it. It's fun to connect with recently-landed MKs, enjoy new fireside recipes, and, of course, carve pumpkins.
I'll give you a minute to figure it out.
Give up?
It's a gastropod with an iPod. OK, stop looking at me that way. You already knew I was a geek...
Fiona drew her design before we even left the house, and Deborah transferred it onto her pumpkin. Aiden's pumpkin is the result of his constantly changing the specs of what he wanted while we were carving. The third eye was the icing on the cake.
In related news, the third time was a charm, and I finally was able to make a harvest in my pumpkin patch of... one pumpkin! Now most people would be disappointed to have planted three years running and only get one fruit, but I'm excited to have finally gotten ONE! Maybe I'll do even better next year...
Thar she be. What shall I carve on this one?
4 comments:
You know we've never had success with pumpkins either. I think our backyard has too poor of drainage. I love the snail with the I-Pod!
I suspect that drainage has something to do with our situation, too. Being just a few feet above lake level tends to have fairly drastic effects on drainage. Next spring, I'm planning on planing everything in little built-up hills.
The one you grew looks like a pie pumpkin to me.
I just realized that since you didn't grow up gardening in the midwestern US, I should probably elaborate a bit on that. If it is indeed a pie pumpkin, that's pretty much full size. One might get half again that big on occasion, but that's about it, and extra-large isn't usually desirable anyway. Pie pumpkins are the kind most commonly grown in home gardens, because they're the best kind for food purposes.
The big carving pumpkins are a different cultivar, grown specifically for decorative purposes, because they're not so good for eating.
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