Oct
30
2009

Halloween Pumpkin

PhotosFriday, October 30, 2009 - 08:04:31 pm
(Posted Under: Halloween)
Because we've been so busy our pumpkin has been sitting on the bench uncarved. I had every intention and desire to carve it last night after we got back from the fair, but we were absolutely in no shape to do it.

So by about 3pm this afternoon, it was time to address that. We'd gotten our carving tools the other night, drew out a design, and was good to go - until the carving too broke two cuts into it! Argh! Katie took off to try and replace it, because it's not like we have any carving knives or anything at the moment. She came back from across the street empty hands, and so began the nightmare of our pumpkin carving. She returned probably two hours later, truimphant, but having had sturggled to find any carving tools anywhere in town. I know that it's the day before halloween, but REALLY?

Photobox ImageWhile she was gone there was a pretty impressive dusk sky with a close to full moon our, which gave a really cool and eerie look over the apartment complex. Sitting out on the porch having a smoke I was thinking about how halloween and moving in seem to go hand in hand for us. We were moving in to a new place last halloween (albeit with a little bit more time before hand last year), and here we are again, a year later, moving in and fitting in halloween festivities around it. Noticing that also can't help but remind you of how much has happened, and how far we've come in the past year, especially when I remember halloween last year and it just doesn't seem like it was that long ago!

Photobox ImageOnce KT got back, time was ticking down before we had to go out tonight, but I was determined that this pumpkin was going to get carved tonight, come hell or high water. Hell, it needed to be, tomorrow is Halloween. It already had felt pretty weird having had left it this late. With the carving knives (no suitable halloween tools were to be found in the 2 hour search) we set out carving it. Surprisingly it didn't take as long to get done as I'd expected, especially given our somewhat advanced design.

Photobox ImageHowever, we now have a carved pumpkin - and just in the nick of time!

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