Carving pumpkins, complete!
By maezee
@maezee (41988)
United States
October 22, 2019 12:45am CST
Happy almost Halloween! Anything new in your worlds? I have to say I have been pretty busy these last couple of weeks and not really motivated AT ALL in coming on here. Not sure what's up with that. I have been SO drained and tired though. A couple times last week I slept 12-14 hours a night. And I was still exhausted when I woke up. I thought I am fighting some type of cold that is persistent. As I write this, and have 1.5 hours left of work, I am feeling extremely exhausted.
Halloween is coming up (next Thursday!). Do you participate in any of the "fun" Halloween things? Decorating, pumpkin carving, trick or treating, Halloween parties?
I enjoy all these things but unfortunately due to my work schedule, for the most part I miss out. However, yesterday, me and my two sisters were able to get together and carve some pumpkins. The end result is the picture! It was fun, and we even "frugally" made use of the guts.
We roasted the pumpkin seeds (I did this, and they didn't turn out GREAT but we will eat them), and me and my sister found a recipe for Pumpkin Butter, using the crock pot and the baked pumpkin guts. It used about half of the "guts", so I am really happy about that! It always feels so wasteful otherwise.
We had a bunch of fun doing this. Do you carve pumpkins?
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@averygirl72 (37845)
• Philippines
22 Oct 19
Sounds fun but not a practice here in my country. I think Halloween is fun to celebrate wish we have it here in my country
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
You could still use it as a theme fir a unique party
@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
Some people dress as Hello Kitty for Halloween.
@JESSY3236 (19968)
• United States
22 Oct 19
No. I used to. Cute pumpkins. All I'm doing for Halloween is giving Lily some treats and keeping her in the house. I might help out at my uncle's church handing out candy if he needs me.
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@Alexandoy (65308)
• Cainta, Philippines
22 Oct 19
There is no pumpkin here so what we have is the plastic pumpkin.
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@allknowing (136772)
• India
23 Oct 19
You have carved so many pumpkins and they all look great.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
We used to do that but then you have to use up all the inside right away.So now we just get interesting looking pumpkins.
We have not carved pumpkins since our grown son was a little boy.
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
22 Oct 19
I have never a carved a pumpkin.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
@maezee Halloween is the eve of those days.All 3 combined is all hallows tide or somewthing like that.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
22 Oct 19
I know carving them is a main part of your celebrations. What do they indicate?
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
It is celtic origin--it is a wandering spirit--something like that.
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@erictsuma (9726)
• Mombasa, Kenya
22 Oct 19
Yes and I like to eat boiled pumpkins. Do you like to eat them too?
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
2 Nov 19
That sounds good.Pumpkin soup and pumpkin bread is good as well.
