Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:58 pm
#88753
UGH! I'm going to start out complaining, because well, I want to.
So I have this thing going on with my esophagus that I wont expand on, but each month for 5-6 months I have to drive 4 hours to a hospital and have an outpatient procedure done. I had one the end of last month and for a complete week after could not eat anything solid due to the pain. This months procedure is scheduled a few days before Halloween! What type of sadistic Dr. does that to someone so close to Halloween!!!!!!! It has me a bit worried now that I will not be up for doing anything on Halloween night. November's procedure is 2 days before Thanksgiving..December's the night before New Years Eve.
Every year I read about people losing some of their pumpkins to rot, and I always brag I never do. I don't know what it is this year, but I've lost 4 already out of the 9 I have. I usually like to carve at least 10, and have been doing around 13 the past few years, but I'm down to 5 now. Today's was a bit strange though. The outside was fine as far as I could tell. No soft spots or discoloration, no holes or any visible mold. I cut into it and find this...
It looked like a giant spider egg sack. The inside wasn't even soft. There was even some red, like it was bleeding..
It's been unseasonably warm here this year, so maybe that is contributing to the rot, but I kinda felt like crying because I keep losing so many.
Alright, I'll stop whining now and post the 2 carves I started with this year. I'm not sure I will continue with staging photo's or not, I don't really feel into it this year. Hopefully that will change.
The ever impressive, the long contained, often imitated, but never duplicated (duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated!) Ge-nie Of The LAAAAAMP! I didn't have a flying carpet, but did have some colorful Arabian silk (ok, organza).
I LOVE the Grinning Jacks. It's like nostalgia of carving as a kid the simple triangle eyes, nose and mouth, but much, much better. So I carved Keaton. He lives up the road a little way in a creepy old house. He invites everyone over, but you may never leave again....
So there is my sad story and my first two carves. I'm hoping I can either find some more 'kins tomorrow or the ones I have left last!
So I have this thing going on with my esophagus that I wont expand on, but each month for 5-6 months I have to drive 4 hours to a hospital and have an outpatient procedure done. I had one the end of last month and for a complete week after could not eat anything solid due to the pain. This months procedure is scheduled a few days before Halloween! What type of sadistic Dr. does that to someone so close to Halloween!!!!!!! It has me a bit worried now that I will not be up for doing anything on Halloween night. November's procedure is 2 days before Thanksgiving..December's the night before New Years Eve.
Every year I read about people losing some of their pumpkins to rot, and I always brag I never do. I don't know what it is this year, but I've lost 4 already out of the 9 I have. I usually like to carve at least 10, and have been doing around 13 the past few years, but I'm down to 5 now. Today's was a bit strange though. The outside was fine as far as I could tell. No soft spots or discoloration, no holes or any visible mold. I cut into it and find this...
It looked like a giant spider egg sack. The inside wasn't even soft. There was even some red, like it was bleeding..
It's been unseasonably warm here this year, so maybe that is contributing to the rot, but I kinda felt like crying because I keep losing so many.
Alright, I'll stop whining now and post the 2 carves I started with this year. I'm not sure I will continue with staging photo's or not, I don't really feel into it this year. Hopefully that will change.
The ever impressive, the long contained, often imitated, but never duplicated (duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated, duplicated!) Ge-nie Of The LAAAAAMP! I didn't have a flying carpet, but did have some colorful Arabian silk (ok, organza).
I LOVE the Grinning Jacks. It's like nostalgia of carving as a kid the simple triangle eyes, nose and mouth, but much, much better. So I carved Keaton. He lives up the road a little way in a creepy old house. He invites everyone over, but you may never leave again....
So there is my sad story and my first two carves. I'm hoping I can either find some more 'kins tomorrow or the ones I have left last!
Last edited by Raven on Fri Oct 31, 2014 3:13 pm, edited 8 times in total.
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