When we got home from leaving $20 at Whole Foods, we carved pumpkins. That went well, too!!! Once again, we had crazy weather on our pumpkin-carving day. Last year, it was snow. This year, crazy-ass wind.

E. said she did hers alone for the first time this year -- but last year's post (and my memory) say she did her own last year, too. J picked a large pumpkin (like last year!), and a complicated design. She ended up frustrated that she couldn't do more herself, but look! It's cool! It's nose is a gourd, and it's a pirate, and that eye patch is sort of whittled out, but not cut through, so in the dark, it looks less bright, but the light does show through. It was hard to get that way. To say the least. It was also difficult to get the hole for the gourd to be the right size.

E. was going to do a witch ... but it required all kinds of materials which beloved and i kept saying no to, b/c we were afraid it would catch on fire. so instead, she did this character, and remember, 100% on her own!

I know the photo is blurry, but in order to have the right amount of light, the flash had to be off, and honestly, I should be reading more about Islamic Law, and not taking photos of pumpkins, so the blurriness must remain. Here it is in the dark:

[my underline function just turned on, and I do not know why, and I do not know html to figure out how to turn it off] Here is my pumpkin. he is evil. E. said that since HER fabulous pumpkin has pupils, when she looks at my pathetic undertaking and sees its lack of pupils, she thinks he looks dead. I told her he is EVIL and very few EVIL characters are living beings. So ha.

I like him.

Beloved has a pumpkin, but did not carve with us -- we girls tend to do it together, and he tends to take time on his own to be a bit more creative than our chaos allows for. His pumpkin last year was really very cool, and I see I didn't post a photo of it. Bad Zuska.

We did have our inaugural shephard's pie for dinner, since daylight saving's time is GONE. It was delicious, and e. ate more than either myself or beloved. yikes.

now i'm going to read more about Islamic Law, and try to quickly write another 10 pages (ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .......

posted by Zuska @ 7:35 PM

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