Our Grumpkins were known to make dogs bark and little kids cry. A red Sharpie marker, a serrated boning knife and Tom Waits’ “Bone Machine” / Mickey Hart’s “Planet Drum” blasting through the neighborhood made it all worthwhile.
The neighborhood kids are all grown up now…
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 5:38 AM
I love these. The carving is very unusual.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 11:05 AM
Ooh! I used to LOVE Planet Drum!
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 6:13 PM
LC Aggie– Years ago I’d collect portraits from the newspapers, darken the shadows with a pen, then draw the shapes of the light areas onto the pumpkin and cut those out. Now I just wing it. I can’t bring myself to use templates.
kdub– Planet Drum is/was awesome. All rhythm. You’ve got a nice site, BTW. [in yr blog, stealn yr stuf]
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 at 1:27 PM
Ya you might reckonnize some items there once in a while.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 at 7:52 PM
kdub– Yep, I did recobanize a few. Thanks for the credit. (An aside: are you related to Finnicky Penguin or Angry Duck?)
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 10:47 AM
Nope. Related to Tiger Butter though.
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 9:16 PM
kdub– Aren’t we all.
Friday, 4 November 2011 at 7:26 AM
I wonder if there are really old pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns sitting in a museum somewhere … cause the only ones I know kind of rot after a short while.
note: cool pumpkinobilia!
Friday, 4 November 2011 at 11:24 PM
plane– The missus cuts ‘em up, steams ‘em, disguises ‘em, then feeds ‘em to us.