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17-Nov-2024 Dave

14 There's always a risk when you let the squirrels do the carving.

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Canon Image Challenge25-Nov-2024 21:48
This is very funny. I miss toasting pumpkin seeds. When our son was living with us, we all three carved pumpkins, and roasted the seeds. Now it's just the two of us, we haven't bothered with pumpkin carving recently. Maybe we should get into it again next year.
Alastair
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2024 12:35
Sounds like you don't get a lot of trick-or-treaters. None in our neighborhood, either. I buy a couple of medium pumpkins for our front porch when they go on sale, and my wife buts a few of the smaller, more colorful ones. I don't bother to carve anymore. Back when I did, we toasted the seeds. The house smelled wonderful.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2024 04:34
Dave , easy answer-- no Pumpkins out front. No one in the neighborhood puts them out front. If you have a fenced/walled in backyard, you could put them outside. We just put a small one or two in the house.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge19-Nov-2024 03:43
What did you do with your pumpkins, Jim? I'm not sure I'd want to encourage javelinas to come close to my house. Is there someplace else you can leave it for them, or maybe donate to Fish & Game? I have found pumpkins dumped in wooded areas along roads in our neighborhood. Someone is missing out on a good show.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge18-Nov-2024 16:47
Ahhh - some help given to encourage the squirrels. LOL
I should have put one out for the javelina that roam our streets at night. This is their favorite food, the Dept of Game and Fish uses pumpkins to bait their live traps.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge18-Nov-2024 12:22
I have a drill but used a kitchen corer to make the holes. When the squirrels were slow to act, I applied peanut butter (crunchy) to the holes. All the holes were the same size, so I'm guessing the height of the eye appeared more to the squirrels.

That pumpkin has been moved from the porch to a path further back in our yard. The deer should get to it eventually. A second pumpkin that the squirrels have all but ignored now has holes and peanut butter. The holes are in a different shape, and I'm interested to see how the bushytails perform on it.

Years ago we lived in a house that backed up to a ravine. We weren't informed when we moved in that the neighborhood had a tradition of "chunking" pumpkins into it the Saturday after Halloween. The pumpkins that weren't thrown all the way to the bottom rolled the rest of the way down if they didn't smash upon landing. One of our pumpkins was rather soft, and my shotput technique resulting in my hand and most of my arm going through it. Needless to say, the deer had a feast.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge18-Nov-2024 10:50
That made me laugh, great title! I’m guessing the original holes were made with a drill bit. Possibly a 1 inch wood paddle bit or a hole saw bit. Most homeowners don't have hole saws. Paul
Canon Image Challenge18-Nov-2024 06:45
Did squirrels do this or pistol shots? Traveller
Canon Image Challenge18-Nov-2024 03:54
That is simply hilarious.

I used to have a few in MN - but nothing as good as this.


Jim