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…
Tacky Raccoons 
I love these. The carving is very unusual.
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Ooh! I used to LOVE Planet Drum!
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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]
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Ya you might reckonnize some items there once in a while.
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kdub– Yep, I did recobanize a few. Thanks for the credit. (An aside: are you related to Finnicky Penguin or Angry Duck?)
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Nope. Related to Tiger Butter though.
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kdub– Aren’t we all.
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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!
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plane– The missus cuts ’em up, steams ’em, disguises ’em, then feeds ’em to us.
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