Last Friday I left work at 3:00 to meet a kind soul who graciously offered to help me pick up 75 pumpkins for a town carving party on Saturday. Some people brought their own pumpkins so, although I have not counted, I think there were over 80 all together. This is the third year the auxiliary has sponsored this event and opened it up for town participation. For the 5-7 years prior to that the auxiliary members carved the pumpkins - only about 25 in those days - and anonymously put them on the town green for display. However with age comes wisdom and we finally became wise enough to recruit other town folk for help with this project. The cost of opening it up to the town was the anonymity of displaying the pumpkins. The gain of opening it up is a lot less carving for us!
We also smartened up a few years ago and purchased strands of the larger clear bulb Christmas lights which we layout along the rock wall on the town green. The pumpkins are then cut open from the bottom and set on the lights. Beats the days of going down each night to light candles, as we leave them on display for approximately a week leading up to Halloween.
I could not figure out how to put a slide show in my blog entry so a link to my Flickr account will have to do. Click here to see the pumpkins!
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you are actually 90% of the way to being able to put the slide show in your blog. Go to the flickr slideshow and start it. In the upper right you will see a menu item "Share This". Click on that menu item and then on the second item in the pop up which is "html code", select "copy to clipboard". Then go to your blog, and go into the HTML mode, and paste the contents of the clipboard into your blog. That's all.
I was in the Farmer's Almanac the other day and it was talking about Halloween and Pumkins. Evidently the Irish may have been the first to celebrate by using a large carved-out turnip. The used a glowing lump of coal to light it up!
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