Carvin’ Punkins

The whole reason we decided to clear out the garden was specifically to pick the pumpkins so that we could do our pumpkin carvings with the kids. While poor Andy had to be at work, we did have Grandma Ann and Uncle Mark over for some added fun.

Jack probably got more into it than Alex did as Alex wasn’t to keen on the slimy guts of the pumpkins that we had to clean out in order to carve them. Jack, on the other hand, loved it.

He would clean out the guts and separate the seeds into the bowl so we could roast them and really enjoyed the sliminess of the seed bowl and how they stuck to him and squished though his fingers.

Ann didn’t do any of the carving, but she was our official seed separator which is no easy task.

Alex designed the pumpkins and Mark was the official carver.

I think we all had fun and the kids really did behave well and there were no major injuries.

Our finished works of art were left on the table until Andy got home so he could enjoy all of our hard work. We ended up leaving the biggest one for him to carve so he could be a part of our Halloween fun as well. He did his the next morning with the kids watching.

Autumn Harvest

So we had a fairly pleasant day on Saturday and decided to go ahead and gather up the rest of what was growing in our garden before the weather gets truly terrible and cold. I have to say that I was a little shocked by what we were able to gather because it has been a bit colder and I thought most of my plants had stopped producing. I think the pumpkins make it look like more than there actually is, but we still got a pretty good haul.

We got a total of seven good pumpkins, five watermelons, one ginormous zucchini that had hidden itself for quite awhile, and numerous peppers, dwarf eggplants, and small tomatoes.

How this zucchini was able to hide is beyond me. I think I just thought there would be no more plants so I stopped searching for them.

Now I just have to figure out what to do with all of the produce because there is no way we will be able to eat it all.