We carved pumpkins!

[jcandleattic]

so we carved pumpkins last night. it was so much fun!!

 

[Prysm]

Great pumpkin carvings. I'm impressed. Are you going to toast the seeds and nibble on them?

 

[jcandleattic]

Great pumpkin carvings. I'm impressed. Are you going to toast the seeds and nibble on them?

Yes, we are. They need cleaned up and soaked in a brine solution first, but by Sunday we should have some nice toasted seeds.

 

[dibbles]

Awesome pumpkins and cute kiddos!!

 

[jcandleattic]

Awesome pumpkins and cute kiddos!!

Thank you. The young girl in the pic is my granddaughter, the older young girl is my son's girlfriend, and the hand with the honkin' knife is my son's hand. LOL

 

[lsg]

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

 

[mommycarlson]

Beautiful pictures! We carved pumpkins today too Well, just one pumpkin. We grow giant pumpkins, this one tipped the scales at 1,360 pounds. it took 4th place at our weigh off. Some family friends' kids helped with removing seeds and carving it today.

 

[Prysm]

Mommycarkson, that's astonishing!

 

[mommycarlson]

It's a really fun hobby We have had a blast growing those crazy pumpkins and have met some incredible people.

 

[Kittish]

Beautiful pictures! We carved pumpkins today too Well, just one pumpkin. We grow giant pumpkins, this one tipped the scales at 1,360 pounds. it took 4th place at our weigh off. Some family friends' kids helped with removing seeds and carving it today.

I'm going to have to show this to my niece and nephew. That is astonishing. And awesome! How did you move that behemoth?

 

[mommycarlson]

We use this tripod and a chainfall. The smaller pumpkin already on the trailer was under 1000 pounds, I can't remember exactly it's weight. We don't have a farm, we actually grow them in our yard in the city.
ETA: The cute little Firefighter guiding the pumpkin is our son He's not really so little any more, he's 31!

 

[jcandleattic]

Those are awesome.

 

[Prysm]

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[mommycarlson]

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That's awesome Angie! How cool

 

[cherrycoke216]

Oh!! Love these cute kiddos and family quality time pictures! And very cool carvings!!!

As a foreigner, I have a dummy question, are those giant pumpkins edible???

 

[mommycarlson]

Oh!! Love these cute kiddos and family quality time pictures! And very cool carvings!!!

As a foreigner, I have a dummy question, are those giant pumpkins edible???

Actually yes, but they are not like you would expect, nothing like a pie pumpkin. The have been cross bred with squash to make the flesh more dense and to grow the pumpkins HUGE! Howard Dill from Nova Scotia is the developer of the Dill's Atlantic Giant (which is what these mammoths are). I've heard of people eating them but have never tried them myself.

 

[Saponista]

That pumpkin is absolutely gigantic. I didn't even know they could grow that big!!!

Here is my pumpkin this year. I thought the skull went with the white skin.

 

[artemis]

Us, too! The boys wanted a scary Minecraft creeper. The girls have a little more refined taster and found a turtle design online.