I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. – L.M. Montgomery

It’s that wonderful time of year again…houses are decorated with pumpkins and mums, scarecrows and cornstalks.  Those perfectly maintained manicured lawns that you covet in the spring and summer are littered with vibrant, paint-dipped leaves, finally putting them at a level playing field with all other lawns.  And when the moon comes out at night, the jack o’ lanterns light up the neighborhood.

Carving a pumpkin is fun at any age… before we had our little beach rose, my husband and I each carved our own every year!  Now we let her pick out a ‘friendly’ pumpkin face, from any of the Halloween books we loan from the library, for Daddy to carve and she does all the scooping of the pulp and seeds, the sorting, and the salting.  Things get a bit messy around here!  Oh, but it is soooo worth it…  the look on her little face when the Jack O’ Lantern comes to life is priceless.

FUN FACT: The size of the pumpkin does not determine the amount of seeds it contains. This is determined by the amount of time it spent on the vine. A pumpkin full of seeds is usually much darker in color and has more lines on the outside. Each line on the outside is a row of seeds on the inside!

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