Halloween What are your plans?

Very cool!

thank you Louise... and congrats on the ribbon!!!!

another update

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiPQ673Mcko

From PERKIE

To PUNKIE
Warm weather brings character to pumpkin goul drool

A shot of the crape myrtle reflecting light from the pumpkin lights.

This message was edited Oct 28, 2010 11:26 AM

Zooming during the exposure.

Thanks, Allison - and everyone else who said something nice about the ribbon. :)

JoAnn, I just read you have to soak your pumpkin in a bleach & water solution to stop the mold. Victor, super colors!

so sorry about the pumpkins JoAnn

:(

trippy Victor

I just hope the arent completely disolved bu sunday night.
They are liquifying now.
DD is out of town
GS is out of town
SIL came home last night so Thankfully I will have help handing out candy.

Halloween also means the clocks turn back and its darker than ever.
On the bright side: about 6 seeks and the sun starts back.

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Sorry about the pumpkins Ge, we've had some strange weather!

They really look Goulish now.

That, they do!!

I dont see no blue ribbon

hey it's gone now

???

Did you see it yesterday?

don't remember... 2 days ago yes

I have not see one yet.

The didn't let them keep it very long!

They lost the blue seal of approval - geeze!

Anyone else excited (besides Allison) for Halloween? I am!!!
DGD Hayden wanted to make her own costume....she's 6 and needed a little help with a head piece. She wants to be a pumkin but asked it I could make a pumpkin head top with some greenery. Oh sure....right up my alley NOT! LOL
I took a headband, some greenery, a glue gun, some glitter spray and a piece of pumpkin-spice potpourri for the stem.

that came out great Celeste!!!... and you know I am excited!!!... wish I could take off today

Brian has a hidden talent and it drives me nuts that he just waste it away!
I had a pattern to trace, but before I could put it in the pumpkin...he drew it on, FREE HAND! He drives me nuts!!

Hopefully tomorrow will be good weather for any tweaking you may have to do and then the big day will be here!!! ^_^

Very nice, Brian!

We had teeeeny crismas lights inside our pumpkins. Now that the pumpkins are collapsing and entombing the lights inside, I had to remove lights and flat P'kins that were really drooling.
What a mess. I will rewind the lights around the stands and P'kins that are left.
I hate to not have any decor when kids come sunday night.
The rotting P'kins are behind the spruces.
I noticed the trimmings left there 2 weeks ago, have all been eaten.
I saw squirrrls but dont know if other ani,als were at it too.

Very clever, Pixie...you have plenty of talent. I'm not too excited about Halloween after spending today in a third grade. We had a little party, & the sugar definitely kicked in! Jo, article in today's paper told of folks losing their pumpkins to a bear....one family said he sat there & nibbled the pumpkin. When we had our airedale twins, Skip & Jazz, they ate several off the porch.....that's when they were banned to the backyard.

I cant imagine what a pumpkin does to a dogs digestion.

nice Brian!!!.... actually pumpkin is great for a dogs digestion.... if they have the runs it stops it... and if they can't go it helps as well.. don't ask me how... but it's supposed to be good for both... not pie filling ... but canned pumpkin ... gave it to Jily when she ate all those sticks.. helped everything go out easier

I agree. Pumpkin and sweet potatoes are very good for dogs. The girls now have sweet potato and lentils in their diet, but I haven't yet added the pumpkin......soon. I look for things they can eat on the trip that will keep well in a cooler. They eat better than we do. not spoiled though.....LOL!!!

Went over to sil/bil's house tonight and did some carving, bil is going to e-mail the pics so I'll post them later.

I guess fiber in any form must do the trick.

I don't remember them ever having digestive problems except when Jazz ate the erthymiacin pills! However, their beards were stained orange from the pumpkin guts.

Anyone have problems with Mischief night or is that just a Jersey thing?

Yes - we have it here too. Now they call it Gate Night. Have no idea why.

never heard of it

No, very quiet here. The only mischief was quite a few years ago when all our pumpkins were stolen off of our front porch....we figured our students did it, but apparently pumpkins were in short supply that year, & costly, so adults were taking them.

Detroit nearly burned down 20+ years ago. Its called "Hell Night" there.
Neighborhoods in transition were torched.
It's quiet here, just little kids under 14

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"Gate" night??? gates of hell or lock your gates!

If you're in a true neighborhood you are a possible candidate for toilet papering, being egged or shaving cream, we used to make sure all the cars were off the street and in your driveway, my neighbor would wait in the bushes with the hose ready for the little hooligans.