Pumpkin

My mom grew giant pumpkins this last year in her garden. Unfortunately, the winter was long and the spring was late and when my mom's plants finally started growing she was sure that they wouldn't have a long enough growing season to actually grow some giant pumpkins. Well, she ended up with three giant pumpkins. AND she gave me one of them. This one wasn't the biggest...it was one of the smaller of the three, but that's okay because I had to lift it into the van and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to lift it in the van to take home...but I did.

The first thing was needed to do with our giant pumpkin was to wash it. It was still a bit dirty from the garden. But where do you wash such a large vegetable? In the shower of course.
SM decided that the only place to carve this pumpkin was on the floor. He was worried that the pumpkin might not be good on his mom's glass table. I think it was a great idea to carve it on the floor.
We cut the bottom flat to help the pumpkin sit up straight. It also meant we didn't need to cut the top off either.

Here's the professional at work. SM loves to carve pumpkins and thinks it's a great tradition. I like to eat the pumpkin seeds...but this year we actually returned the pumpkin seeds to my mom (though we kept a few so that we can plant our own giant pumpkins next year...hee, hee, hee).

And here's the final product. Pretty cute pumpkin, if I do say so myself.

And not all that scary in the dark.