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If the Santa Anas are blowing, you'll want to ditch your jack-o-lantern as soon as Halloween is over. No chilly, pumpkin-preserving, procrastination-permitting East Coast days here, baby.
(Yes, that's a slime trail of pumpkin juice oozing across the stoop. Gack.)
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Lissa, this one's for you: The Time Has Come By Jack Prelutsky I think the time has come to throw the jack-o’-lantern out, it smells less like a pumpkin than it does like sauerkraut. Its expression is peculiar, it has [Read More]
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It's -32 with the windchill here. I just threw our two rock solid ones in the garbage. On the bright side no guck!
Posted by: Steve Clackson | November 09, 2006 at 07:58 AM
I learned the same lesson in FL. Ugh! On the bright side, I bet it would look great under a microscope!
Posted by: Theresa | November 09, 2006 at 08:10 AM
That's a pumpkin carving hazard in Texas too! :)
Posted by: Katherine in TX | November 09, 2006 at 08:17 AM
Funny! Last year I discovered ours frozen solid to the front porch in early December. oops!
Posted by: Love2learn Mom | November 09, 2006 at 08:39 AM
Too, too funny! And the little face on that pumpkin looks like a "Peanuts" cartoon!
Posted by: Margaret in Minnesota | November 09, 2006 at 08:56 AM
Funny, we had an identical pumpkin on our front porch here in Orange County! I threw him away yesterday, but he left behind a big white stain at our front door. (I'm embarrased to admit he was also full of gray fuzzy mold when I tossed him out!)
Posted by: Kristen Laurence | November 09, 2006 at 08:59 AM
That actually looks very appropriately greusome. And our's here in the South go out the very next day. Bleh.
Posted by: Jennifer | November 09, 2006 at 10:04 AM
Having lived in Louisiana all my life, I thought this was the normal cycle of a jack-o-lantern. LOL
Ours went in the burn pile a few days ago, after I caught the girls and their neighborhood pals poking sticks in the poor pumpkin's belly and shouting: "Oooooo..."
Posted by: Cay | November 09, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Having grew up in CO, the first year we were here in the FL Keys I blithely bought our pumpkins 2 WEEKS before Halloween for Autumnal Decor on the bow of the boat. Picture me preparing to open Jack up and my ENTIRE fist sinking into his head of goo. Gack! is right.
Posted by: Jennifer | November 09, 2006 at 02:44 PM
I ditto Cay....normal stuff for hot, humid south Louisiana...hey, it happens even before Halloween :(
Posted by: Cheryl | November 09, 2006 at 02:56 PM
So...let me get this straight.
We haven't gotten to see your lovely new house yet but you *do* treat us to pictures of your rotted, oozing pumpkin.
Niiiiice to know where we stand ;-)
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Posted by: Hooly | November 09, 2006 at 04:50 PM
lol it reminds me of the snowmen calvin and hobbes build.
Posted by: xixi | November 09, 2006 at 09:41 PM
My poor pumpkins don't last long in the tropics....Two days later, they're already moldy!
Posted by: crissa | November 10, 2006 at 08:11 AM
You did well, having just moved! My pumpkin is still sitting on my sideboard, waiting to be carved.
Posted by: Mary Beth P | November 10, 2006 at 05:53 PM
Yeah, yeah, but I think your husband has the real story. :-)
Posted by: Karen E. | November 11, 2006 at 04:54 AM
I'm not sure I ever caught the root cause for your cross-country move, Lissa......dh's work?
I've always wondered how people from other parts of the country find the cost of living in California. We'd need farm-aid if my dh were ever transferred there!
Posted by: Maureen | November 11, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Kind of gives the place a Sleepy Hollow look!
Posted by: Alice Gunther | November 11, 2006 at 09:23 PM
My pumpkins look like that here on Long Island, where it's 50 degrees and rainy!
Posted by: leticia | November 14, 2006 at 06:42 AM