The secret life of pumpkins!! After reading this essay, I will never be able to look at a post-Halloween pumpkin in the same way ever again. What a contribution to cleaner land fills, healthier sheep and fun-loving children! What a service to households whose owners everywhere feel guilty as their big, orange, rotund gourds slump and rot away on the porch step, and finally have to be incompletely scraped off--leaving ugly stains as the smelly remains of the day. You are the beautifiers of neighborhoods and the country. The nutrient-rich filler of ruminant bellies! The feeder of clever, gregarious, hooved mammals with woolly coats--and a willing, hungry sense of irony. Bobbie, you have described a great need. The sheep have a greater need. And now we all have a new need to rescue, surrender and recycle our end-of-life pumpkins to our local farmer. May you develop an expanded curb side pick-up service soon. We promise forever to do our part. And yes, we will organize and support a national holiday for the day-after Halloween. No baah-humbug for you!
The secret life of pumpkins!! After reading this essay, I will never be able to look at a post-Halloween pumpkin in the same way ever again. What a contribution to cleaner land fills, healthier sheep and fun-loving children! What a service to households whose owners everywhere feel guilty as their big, orange, rotund gourds slump and rot away on the porch step, and finally have to be incompletely scraped off--leaving ugly stains as the smelly remains of the day. You are the beautifiers of neighborhoods and the country. The nutrient-rich filler of ruminant bellies! The feeder of clever, gregarious, hooved mammals with woolly coats--and a willing, hungry sense of irony. Bobbie, you have described a great need. The sheep have a greater need. And now we all have a new need to rescue, surrender and recycle our end-of-life pumpkins to our local farmer. May you develop an expanded curb side pick-up service soon. We promise forever to do our part. And yes, we will organize and support a national holiday for the day-after Halloween. No baah-humbug for you!
Thank you, Marta! Rotting pumpkins on front stoops everywhere thank you as well.
Have you gotten any humans to try the seeds ? I had no idea but don’t really want to try them.
You never had pumpkin seeds? As my mother would have said "Where were you brought up child?"
Settled: Reincarnation as a sheep on Hill-Stead Farm ;)
See you there!
I wish I lived near by!
Diana helped with the pumpkin smashing event, you two would have had a good time!
Hah! We would have!!