I did a little shopping yesterday. Sometimes I will leave the stuff I buy in the trunk overnight if it doesn't need to be brung in that moment. So I went back to the trunk to get my booty of Evian, and there was a burntorange Pumpkin. I smiled, for a moment I forgot I picked one up. So seasonal, so representitive, I love having one around. I'm thinking of eating it, but anyway.

Have you picked up your pumpkin yet?

Do you pick up a pumkin around this time of year?

When you going to get that Great Pumpkin?

cool mick G!
[Edited 10/3/06 22:02pm]

Must be an american/halloween thing
We don't have that here (Holland)

Dewrede said:

here neither, have you tried these?

ZombieKitten said:

It's a "butternut Squash" a classic gorg to be made come thanksgiving dinner. It's great with brown sugar, honey and cinnimon.

Very easy to prepair if you take the seeds out then bake slowly for an hour and a half, let cool and then the skin comes over very easy.

MickG said:

they call these pumpkins here
I cube, toss in oil, garlic and seasoning and bake until tender then throw in with cooked pasta, semi dried tomatoes, pine nuts and spinach leaves. sometimes bacon too.

yummy!

Classic American "Pumpkin" Gorg

I love halloween time.

The last few years I have hosted a pumpkin carving party. It's usually only a couple of people, but I love to do it.
We carve jack o' lanterns and I make a yummy, spicy cider and roast the seeds and all that.
Halloween is my most favorite holiday.
[Edited 10/4/06 5:12am]

pumpkin seeds...yummmy.

i don't do real pumpkins anymore. with my schedule, i always forget about that i have one and sometime in november they start to look like joan rivers.

that was NOT the picture that was posted at first MickG

i love pumpkins. maybe it's the way the word 'pumpkin' tastes. maybe it's their round, orange sides and cutie little stems

MickG said:

not yet , will try

ZombieKitten said:

really ?

Still haven't tried

Mach said:

I've never before heard of a ghost pumpkin. That is beautiful.

I LOVE the way the word "pumpkin" looks.



But I don't like it with those quotes around it. They scruffle up the beauty of the word.

Pumpkin.



Okay, that period is just superfluous and slightly distracting.

Pumpkin

WillyWonka said:

arn't they beautiful ?

well yes ... i mean YES they are beautiful

Mach said:

It is.

Are they relatively difficult to find, even around Halloween time?

WillyWonka said:

here in western NC ... they are not to hard to find but they sell out fast

I don't get pumpkins. I don't celebrate Halloween or give out candy.

Spats said:

cool not a thing in the world wrong with that choice

I love pumpkins...so fall-like...not only do they look cool, but they
taste wonderful...pumpkin pie, bread, muffins, soup.....I like almost
anything pumpkin....yum.....

i have 7 pumpkins out on the deck from the 200 or so grown in the garden on the farm...

and i tried to grow those mini ornamental ones in my garden
but when i was sick i didn't feel like going out in the rain to cover them from frost.
they are yellow... i don't think they are going to turn orange

emm's pumpkins

ZombieKitten said:

really
I don't know why but I found that really funny

Halloween is just THE BEST...I love it. This year I'm going to find a pumpkin patch that's REALLY sincere and wait for the Great Pumpkin.

I'm waiting til closer to Halloween, then I'm making Alex carve it for my amusement.

applekisses said:

can i come ?

Mach said:

Of course! We might miss trick-or-treating, though...are you ok with that?

applekisses said: