http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp

Best regards,
Bob

zxcvbob wrote:
> http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp

I don't carve my pumpkins.
After Halloween I put them outside.
Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg

Sheldon

Sheldon wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
>> http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>
> I don't carve my pumpkins.
> After Halloween I put them outside.
> Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>
> Sheldon

And the squirrels say "Good Eats!" Thanks for the laugh!

Jill

On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:

>
> zxcvbob wrote:
> > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>
> I don't carve my pumpkins.
> After Halloween I put them outside.
> Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>
Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.

I took the remaining one inside. Too bad. It's usually a nice
neighborhood and it was probably "outsiders" who did it, but I won't
put out anything this year unil Halloween evening. I'll keep an eye
on everything (not hard to do considering the number of trick r
treaters we get) until I take things inside and turn off the lights.

sf wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
>
>
>>
>> zxcvbob wrote:
>> > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>>
>> I don't carve my pumpkins.
>> After Halloween I put them outside.
>> Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>>
>
> Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
>

Do they stomp them? You could put a broken coke bottle inside or a
cheap steak knife blade, inserting it up from the bottom...

Or electrify it with a fence charger (just sit it on top of an energized
metal soup can lid, on top of a plastic coffee lid insulator) If a kid
grabs it, he will get a harmless but painful surprise...

Best regards,
Bob

zxcvbob wrote:
> sf wrote:
> > On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> zxcvbob wrote:
> >> > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
> >>
> >> I don't carve my pumpkins.
> >> After Halloween I put them outside.
> >> Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
> >>
> >
> > Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> > night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> > front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> > grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> > yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
> >
>
> Do they stomp them? You could put a broken coke bottle inside or a
> cheap steak knife blade, inserting it up from the bottom...
>
> Or electrify it with a fence charger (just sit it on top of an energized
> metal soup can lid, on top of a plastic coffee lid insulator) If a kid
> grabs it, he will get a harmless but painful surprise...

Geeze, you must be one of those creepy kids got his jollies pulling
wings off butterflys.

Sheldon

sf wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
>
> >
> > zxcvbob wrote:
> > > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
> >
> > I don't carve my pumpkins.
> > After Halloween I put them outside.
> > Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
> >
> Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
>
> I took the remaining one inside. Too bad. It's usually a nice
> neighborhood and it was probably "outsiders" who did it, but I won't
> put out anything this year unil Halloween evening. I'll keep an eye
> on everything (not hard to do considering the number of trick r
> treaters we get) until I take things inside and turn off the lights.

When I lived on Lung Guyland I had that problem but the kids here in
the boonies are for the most part much more civilized regarding
Halloween (don't really know about other instances). Here only the
very young kids go out begging, always with their parents... the older
kids (young teens) don't seem at all interested. Anyways, my front
door is a good 200 feet in from the road, don't think anyone is going
to bother creeping all that way to smash a couple pumpkins. I don't
get too many rug rats and they don't come around much past dinner time,
so that's when I put my pumpkins out back by the trees where my cats
can see them from a window, they spend many hours over many days
intently observing the squirrels squirreling.

Sheldon

On 16 Oct 2005 13:05:30 -0700, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>When I lived on Lung Guyland I had that problem but the kids here in
>the boonies are for the most part much more civilized regarding
>Halloween (don't really know about other instances). Here only the
>very young kids go out begging, always with their parents... the older
>kids (young teens) don't seem at all interested. Anyways, my front
>door is a good 200 feet in from the road, don't think anyone is going
>to bother creeping all that way to smash a couple pumpkins. I don't
>get too many rug rats and they don't come around much past dinner time,
>so that's when I put my pumpkins out back by the trees where my cats
>can see them from a window, they spend many hours over many days
>intently observing the squirrels squirreling.

I loved the picture of your pumpkin-eating squirrels. I've never seen
that happen before.

Carol

Carol Peterson wrote:
> On 16 Oct 2005 13:05:30 -0700, "Sheldon" > wrote:
>
> >When I lived on Lung Guyland I had that problem but the kids here in
> >the boonies are for the most part much more civilized regarding
> >Halloween (don't really know about other instances). Here only the
> >very young kids go out begging, always with their parents... the older
> >kids (young teens) don't seem at all interested. Anyways, my front
> >door is a good 200 feet in from the road, don't think anyone is going
> >to bother creeping all that way to smash a couple pumpkins. I don't
> >get too many rug rats and they don't come around much past dinner time,
> >so that's when I put my pumpkins out back by the trees where my cats
> >can see them from a window, they spend many hours over many days
> >intently observing the squirrels squirreling.
>
> I loved the picture of your pumpkin-eating squirrels. I've never seen
> that happen before.

Well, you need to put out uncarved pumpkins, the squirrels go after the
seeds... they eat the pumpkin flesh on the spot and horde the seeds for
winter. Nothing edible gets wasted here... the blue jays already
polished off all my sunflower seeds, they worked from before sunrise
until dark till there wasn't a seed left... but they didn't eat any,
they kept filling up and ferrying them to a nest where they deposited
them for the winter. The deer are already winterizing, they change
their diet from grasses to twigs and bark... they're venturing closer
and closer to the my house at night, checking my shrub menu... too bad,
it's all fenced this year... those thieves nearly cleaned me out last
winter.

Sheldon

Damsel wrote:
> I loved the picture of your pumpkin-eating squirrels. I've never seen
> that happen before.
>
> Carol

Happened to me about 12 years ago. The pumpkins started rotting on the
back steps, and then I heard that noise....Grabbed my camera, and got a
(print) picture of the little thief.

Now, we keep our pumpkins inside until halloween, carve them when the
kid gets home from school, put them out for about 4 hours with candles,
and then take them in and steam them for pumpkin pie filling, Pumpkin
cookies, muffins and bread.

and of course pumpkin seeds roasted!

maxine in ri

sf wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
>
>>
>> zxcvbob wrote:
>> > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>>
>> I don't carve my pumpkins.
>> After Halloween I put them outside.
>> Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>>
> Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
>
I used to decorate for fall (not necessarily for Halloween, but harvest)
with pumpkins and cornstalks. Made a pretty presentation. I guess I'm
lucky in that I don't live in an apartment complex with lots of kids. No
one bothers the stuff I set out. I agree, it was a mean thing for those
kids (probably teens) to do.

Jill

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:54:29 -0500, jmcquown wrote:

> I used to decorate for fall (not necessarily for Halloween, but harvest)
> with pumpkins and cornstalks.

I usually leave my uncarved pumpkins out until after Thanksgiving -
but maybe not this year. Sometimes I put out cornstalks, but they are
really ugly here. They get moldy from the fog.

In article >,
says...
> On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
>
> >
> > zxcvbob wrote:
> > > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
> >
> > I don't carve my pumpkins.
> > After Halloween I put them outside.
> > Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
> >
> Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
>
> I took the remaining one inside. Too bad. It's usually a nice
> neighborhood and it was probably "outsiders" who did it, but I won't
> put out anything this year unil Halloween evening. I'll keep an eye
> on everything (not hard to do considering the number of trick r
> treaters we get) until I take things inside and turn off the lights.

Pumpkin slashing has been around for a LONG time. Unfortunately I no
longer have my machete - that used to be very good at slicing pumpkins.
One of us would toss the pumpkin in the air and another would take a
swing.

We did that for one season and by the sixth or so pumpkin the fun kind
of ran out. But every now and then I see a pumpkin that's obviously been
put to a blade and I smile.

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:13:59 -0400, Tony P. wrote:

> In article >,
> says...
> > On 15 Oct 2005 19:18:42 -0700, Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > zxcvbob wrote:
> > > > http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
> > >
> > > I don't carve my pumpkins.
> > > After Halloween I put them outside.
> > > Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
> > >
> > Kids are getting meaner these days. Usually they wait until Halloween
> > night to smash pumpkins. We had 2 uncarved pumpkins (outside) by the
> > front door and someone smashed the "baby" one Friday night. My
> > grandson is only 4 and very excited about pumpkins (not Halloween
> > yet). It was a mean spirited thing to do.
> >
> > I took the remaining one inside. Too bad. It's usually a nice
> > neighborhood and it was probably "outsiders" who did it, but I won't
> > put out anything this year unil Halloween evening. I'll keep an eye
> > on everything (not hard to do considering the number of trick r
> > treaters we get) until I take things inside and turn off the lights.
>
> Pumpkin slashing has been around for a LONG time. Unfortunately I no
> longer have my machete - that used to be very good at slicing pumpkins.
> One of us would toss the pumpkin in the air and another would take a
> swing.
>
> We did that for one season and by the sixth or so pumpkin the fun kind
> of ran out. But every now and then I see a pumpkin that's obviously been
> put to a blade and I smile.
>
Buy or grow all the pumpkins you want to put to the knife. It's not
my business. When you do it to my pumpkins, you are vandalizing
property and stealing. I don't care if you like doing it. Spend your
own GD money on pumpkins you put to the knife.

In article . com>, "Sheldon" > wrote:
>
>zxcvbob wrote:
>> http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>
>I don't carve my pumpkins.
>After Halloween I put them outside.
>Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg

The local daily tabloid recently had a snippet about a "new world
record pumpkin". Seems some bloke (in the USA?) has grown a bloody
pumpkin weighing in at about 557 kg, IIRC. (That's about 1228 lb for
the benefit of you Yanks.

Cheers, Phred.

--
LID

In article >,
says...
> In article . com>, "Sheldon" > wrote:
> >
> >zxcvbob wrote:
> >> http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
> >
> >I don't carve my pumpkins.
> >After Halloween I put them outside.
> >Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>
> The local daily tabloid recently had a snippet about a "new world
> record pumpkin". Seems some bloke (in the USA?) has grown a bloody
> pumpkin weighing in at about 557 kg, IIRC. (That's about 1228 lb for
> the benefit of you Yanks.
>
> Cheers, Phred.

It was right here in Rhode Island and it was closer to 1300+ lbs. They
had the picture of it in the Providence Journal. Unfortunately it is no
longer on-line.

Makes me wonder how projo.com won it's 'awards'. It has to be one of the
suckiest newspaper sites out there. But then, it was in no great shape
before Belo bought it, and now it's barely fit to line the cat litter
pan with.

In article >, Tony P. > wrote:
>In article >,
>says...
>> In article . com>, "Sheldon"
> > wrote:
>> >
>> >zxcvbob wrote:
>> >> http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabo...pkin_carve.asp
>> >
>> >I don't carve my pumpkins.
>> >After Halloween I put them outside.
>> >Here's why: http://tinypic.com/el75lh.jpg
>>
>> The local daily tabloid recently had a snippet about a "new world
>> record pumpkin". Seems some bloke (in the USA?) has grown a bloody
>> pumpkin weighing in at about 557 kg, IIRC. (That's about 1228 lb for
>> the benefit of you Yanks.
>
>It was right here in Rhode Island and it was closer to 1300+ lbs. They
>had the picture of it in the Providence Journal. Unfortunately it is no
>longer on-line.

Hmm... Might be two of the bloody big things? Checked my reference
when wrapping the rubbish -- the one I mentioned was displayed at a
"world championship competition" held in California and was grown by
Joel Holland, a retired firefighter from Washington State. It won the
"World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off" and weighed in at "557.47 kg",
which I take to mean one of those stupid tabloid conversions to our
"kg" from your 1229 lb. :-) It measured 3.9 m (153.54" ;-) in girth.

>Makes me wonder how projo.com won it's 'awards'. It has to be one of the
>suckiest newspaper sites out there. But then, it was in no great shape
>before Belo bought it, and now it's barely fit to line the cat litter
>pan with.


Cheers, Phred.

--
LID

Phred wrote:

> The local daily tabloid recently had a snippet about a
> "new world record pumpkin". Seems some bloke (in
> the USA?) has grown a bloody pumpkin weighing in
> at about 557 kg, IIRC. (That's about 1228 lb for
> the benefit of you Yanks.

Cheers, Phred.

The last time I checked, the biggest one was just over 1200 lb. Every
year it creeps up. The sad thing is, they spend all that time and
fertilizer growing something that has little food value.

maxine in ri

maxine in ri wrote:
> Phred wrote:
>
> > The local daily tabloid recently had a snippet about a
> > "new world record pumpkin". Seems some bloke (in
> > the USA?) has grown a bloody pumpkin weighing in
> > at about 557 kg, IIRC. (That's about 1228 lb for
> > the benefit of you Yanks.
>
> Cheers, Phred.
>
> The last time I checked, the biggest one was just over 1200 lb. Every
> year it creeps up. The sad thing is, they spend all that time and
> fertilizer growing something that has little food value.

Actually composted manure is essentially free, and pumpkin has
significant dietary value. And pumpkins kinda grow all by themselves,
other than planting a seed there's no undue effort involved.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/nutrition.html

Sheldon

Sheldon wrote:

Actually composted manure is essentially free, and pumpkin has
significant dietary value. And pumpkins kinda grow all by themselves,
other than planting a seed there's no undue effort involved.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/nutrition.html

Sheldon

The jack-o-lantern and sugar pumpkins are easy to grow, but I've talked
to some of the contestants in the giant pumpkin contests, and compost
alone will not a winner make. The Jumbos taste like sawdust and have
flesh over a foot thick, so even the squirrels would have to be
starving to dig that deep for their seeds!

maxine in ri