I have recently become displeased with MySpace's blog and decided to try this one instead. The main problem I had with the MySpace one was that non-MySpacer's couldn't post comments. Hopefully with Blogger that will change. If you are not familiar with my previous blog posts you can find them here: http://www.myspace.com/knowone725
It is officially Halloween! Although it isn't my favorite holiday, it does rank pretty high up there. I like raiding the kids candy for chocolate goodness and blow pops. I also still like to dress up when I have the time to put together a costume. I originally wanted to be Gumby this year, but just didn't have the time to put an effort into making the costume. Instead I went with a much simpler costume. I will post a photo of it sometime in the near future, and you can try and figure out what it is. My favorite part of Halloween is definitely carving jack-o-lanterns. I think I have gotten better with each year. I also learn new things that help me each year. This year's main tip that I learned was to give the pumpkins a bath after cleaning them out. The moisture does the pumkin well, and helps it last a couple days longer before turning into mush. Be sure to dry the pumpkin off after giving it a bath. Also, after the carving is all done you should spray it inside and out with some Lysol. It helps keep the fungi and bacteria away for a while.
This year I was feeling very ambitious and decided to try and carve pumpkins of the kids. I tried Geronimo's first and this was the result:
After two days the inside looked like this:
I was forced to trash it and try again. Here are the rest of my carvings of real pumpkins this year:
Madison
Geronimo
Skyler
Sasquatch
This is from one of my favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone called "Eye of the Beholder". That is all I have for now. I carved some fake pumpkins too, but I wasn't too impressed with them. If you are interested in knowing how I carved the pumpkins, let me know and maybe I will post a step-by-step process in the future. Until next time, Have a Happy Halloween!
