Did you know Brian never carved a pumpkin growing up? So goes his story. My heart breaks for him. It's almost a case of neglect coming from my view point. Can you be a real kid if you miss out on this part of Halloween? His mom actually used the pumpkins and didn't want them to rot on the front porch like ours did. They get all nasty and the face starts to fall in and the kids want to keep them because they are precious. Finally you have to just chuck them in the trash when no one is looking because the flies are just too much to stomach anymore.
Weird. I actually didn't know until I was a teenager that you could USE a pumpkin to eat. We didn't even roast the seeds because we didn't like to eat them. I truly thought they were strictly for carving. Brian got to draw on his pumpkin every year with markers so they could cook them. Weird...
Don't worry, except that he was in Europe this year and missed the big carving day at our house for 2008, I think we've carved pumpkins every year since we started dating in 1998. He's pretty darn good at it too, especially since he sort of entered the arena as the underdog, you know, since he had no real experience.
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Nice rot. I found out this year that if you soak the pumpkin in water for 30 mins to an hour, they puff back up from their shrivelness. Our pumpkins got two lukewarm baths before Halloween from a devoted Brigham...
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