That has to be the strangest looking pumpkin I've seen though. Not the carving--that's pretty cool--but the pumpkin itself. It looks almost perfectly spherical--like a orange beach ball, almost. The ribs are barely visible at all. Did you pick it out because of that, or did you just happen to get that one?
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I took a lot of ten from the last pumpkins of our neighbors to work for a Halloween party. If you think that one was odd, I wish I could show you the elongated pumpkin that one of my coworkers carved! It was so skinny that she couldn't get the seeds out of the middle even though she cut off the top and bottom. She made it into a nerdy pumpkin with a bow tie and glasses. It won the pumpkin carving contest. I just scratched because I was hosting the party and didn't really have the time to carve, but wanted to get the ball rolling and wanted people to see that they didn't have to make a mess if they didn't want to. It also is incredibly dense for a pumpkin and I guess it does rather look like an orange ball! Posts: 1777 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Hey, is Sophie dressed as something there? I just noticed the collar of her outfit, and how it looks almost vegetal. I'd think that you'd dressed her as a pumpkin, except that they go strait from the gourd into a vine, with no "tomato style" leaf like structures around the stem.
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You don’t tell little kids that their Halloween costumes are botanically inaccurate. (Or parents of little kids, either.)
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Ugh, if that's a picture of the great pumpkin, katharina, maybe I'll have to reconsider. That's not someone I would want to meet even on a clear, bright, sunny day.
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I babysat two kds on saturday who's mom was the headless horseman at a park in indianapolis. She said it was the first time she'd gotten to ride without a kid in her lap for 2 years (jackson will be 2 next week, lily's 8 months)
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It's funny, isn't it, kat? I have no memory of this thread either, and when I read what I wrote about Sophie's costume, my thought even before I read Dana's post was "What? What are you doing criticizing a little kid's halloween costume?".
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Wait, katharina -- Dallas? I thought you lived in DC? No, I'm sure of it! When did Dallas happen?
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Dang. If I'd have noticed that there was a page 2, I might have clued in to some of the "back then" references! Posts: 3149 | Registered: Jul 2005
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Yeah, this definitely isn't current me. Current me put on a platinum blonde wig, was dragged to a party yesterday, stayed for an hour, and then went home to watch Dirty Sexy Money (I love that show - I wish it had a different name so I didn't feel so sordid when I mention it) and fall asleep before midnight.
However, that whimsy is probably still buried in me somewhere. It'll come out to play again.
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Yeah, and, katharina, it was only today on another thread that I discovered that you were Javert Hugo. So I'm slow. Posts: 3149 | Registered: Jul 2005
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