the halloween squash

I kept putting off getting a pumpkin to carve and finally, it was after dark, the night before Halloween (a Sunday) and I had a fruitless search for a pumpkin. After calling around, my brother in law located pumpkins at the Food City on Clinton Hwy, so I headed over there, only to find that what they called pumpkins, most people would call gourds...or squashes. But it's all they had, so I bought two of them and took them home. I expected my children to be really disappointed, but they found it quite amusing and were happy with their Halloween gourds

Here are Jane and my niece Eleanor with the Halloween gourds.



And Henry and I had a friendly wrestling match over the Halloween gourds.



And then Elliot fell asleep on the floor clutching his favorite of the two gourds.