Happy Halloween

BOO!!! Did I scare you? Are you all ready for the big haunting night? or do you really care? Josh and I have been so busy lately that last night we finally were able to carve our pumpkins. Picking the design was the hard part this year. We were able to find some nice pumpkins at Hy-Vee. Since they are not sold by weight I made sure mine was one of the largest they had.

When it came time to decide on a pattern I was out of ideas. We did the Red Sox and the Hawks last year, the Cubs sucked it up this year, so it would be the easiest to do a pattern or just a normal ol jack-o-lantern face. The search was on to find our pattern books and carving tools. Of course we could not find them, I think there are with my missing yearbooks.

So Josh was on the hunt for a pattern book, he found one and after supper at about 10 pm we started the carving process. I told you we have been busy, and this was the only time we had. We do have to wait til almost Halloween to carve them anyway becuase the squirrels think we are leaving them food when we set our pumpkins out, but this was late.

So we scraped the goo and seperated the seeds out. I try to roast the seeds, every year they taste a little different. So I got the seeds into the oven so I didn't have to roast them until 2 am. Then it was time to transfer the patterns on to the pumpkin, that was not easy, and they were not easy to see once they were transfered. So we managed to carve out the patterns and viola, we had 2 carved pumpkins and it was just shy of midnight.

Kona was experiencing her first Halloween. She thought the pumpkins were food, so she started eating some of the goo and started chewing on some of the seeds. It was hard to keep her away, she always has to put her nose into things to see what is going on. Halen on the other hand took the opportunity to go sleep somewhere away from the action. We do have both extremes for pets.

Happy Halloween everyone. Stay safe!!