Happy Halloween

Halloween falls on a Monday this year, which is a little hard to deal with if you are actually trying to trick or treat, but it makes for good parties over the weekend. Saturday night Keith, Chadd, Meghann and I did a little pre-game warm-up carving to get into the mood (actually Keith and Meghann weren’t going to be able to make it to the big event Sunday night, so this was their party). Keith, Chadd and I did some fairly typical pumpkin carving. Keith’s and mine are designed to go together, originally Keith’s was going to be puking on top of mine, but after all the carving was done we decided it would look better the other way around. Meghann’s Pumpkin was the definite winner of the night. She started by taking a bit of time to come up with a totally original design and draw it out while the rest of us watched my completed Philmont video. Then she took probably about an hour to carve a magnificent pumpkin that expresses a design that I think is pretty novel. I’m sure you can see what it is, but just in case you cant it’s a girl holding an axe toward her like she is going to strike her face, because there is a spider dangling in front of her. Below are a couple of the good pictures, or click here to see the whole gallery:

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I was able to get together with friends again Sunday night for our second (now annual) pumpkin carving party. Irene and Charlie were kind enough to host the gathering at their place again this year so I thank you goes out to them. We had a nice pot luck dinner around 4:30. My favorite dish was probably Michelle’s Meatballs, but the desert of choice was Joanne’s Pumpkin Cheesecake bars. We started carving around 5:30 or so and a couple of us didn’t finish until around 8. I did two pumpkins myself, one is a cannibal pumpkin, the other is designed for putting a large flame in, either a road flair or a toilet paper roll soaked in some kind of slow burning fuel (like kerosene). Below are a couple of the good pictures, or click here to see the whole gallery:

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