Our Halloween Tradition
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For about 25 years now, my family has been carving pumpkins at Halloween as a tradition started by my aunt when she brought home a Pumpkin Masters kit on that fateful day. Ever since, we have been hooked. Each year we seem to carve more pumpkins, often times with better or more difficult patterns. It's literally our favorite holiday.
I remember my aunt from Texas would come to Tennessee where we lived (until I finished college) to carve pumpkins at Halloween. She would stay for the week, often using all of her vacation time. We became "those people with all the pumpkins." Then, when we moved to Texas in 2003, we became The Pumpkin People. I got married in 2005, and my wife got involved. My sister got married a few years ago, and her husband joined in the crew. It's still a family thing.
Even though Aunt Tonie (the one who started it all) passed away back in 2006 after losing her battle with cancer, the tradition carries on each year. Now it's sort of become our way of honoring her memory because it's something she loved to do, and we all loved to do with her. And we love it when people come by the house to get some candy on Halloween to see the display.
So if you want to check out some of our designs this year, have a look:
https://www.facebook.com/pumpkinpeople
http://brandibug.blogspot.com/2014/10/halloween-2014-lets-get-started.html -
That's an awesome tradition!
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My hands are tired.
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ok those look pretty stinking awesome!
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that is freaking awesome!
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Nice job! I love pumpkin carving. Although weren't able to do it this year.
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I cut my pumpkin in half and then steamed it. Then I scraped out all the pumpkin goodness and separated the seeds. I took the shell and put it outside for the squirrels.
I seasoned the cooked pumpkin with olive oil, salt, and pepper. It was tasty!
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@Katie said:
I cut my pumpkin in half and then steamed it. Then I scraped out all the pumpkin goodness and separated the seeds. I took the shell and put it outside for the squirrels.
I seasoned the cooked pumpkin with olive oil, salt, and pepper. It was tasty!
Pumpkin is freaking delicious! One of my favorite foods of all time!
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You should post the pumpkin pictures here too!
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I'm going to rely on @NetworkNerdWifey to post the pictures here as she is the master photographer in our household.
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ok, so what's the max file size I can upload here? Apparently smaller than Facebook allows. I was going to add a few pumpkin pics but keep getting a "file too large" error.
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
ok, so what's the max file size I can upload here? Apparently smaller than Facebook allows. I was going to add a few pumpkin pics but keep getting a "file too large" error.
Not that large. Far better to link than to upload if they already exist online somewhere.
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@scottalanmiller Ok. Well so far they only exist on Facebook, but will go in my Flickr soon. I'll post links then.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Not that large. Far better to link than to upload if they already exist online somewhere.
That really needs fixed. Is there a bug report on it or feature request?
The whole point of the upload button being tied to imgur is defeated because of this limitation.
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@JaredBusch said:
The whole point of the upload button being tied to imgur is defeated because of this limitation.
The limitation is from imgur.
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@scottalanmiller discussion moved here: http://mangolassi.it/topic/1009/update-0-4-2-has-been-applied/34
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I have an album in my Flickr that has ever pumpkin we have carved since 2007. You can see it here. The 2014 pumpkins will be at the bottom.
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@NetworkNerdWifey said:
I have an album in my Flickr that has ever pumpkin we have carved since 2007. You can see it here. The 2014 pumpkins will be at the bottom.
Thanks for sharing..Its awesome
OMG i haven't seen big pumpkin in real life.
We have pumpkins here but too small
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@Joyfano said:
OMG i haven't seen big pumpkin in real life.
We have pumpkins here but too smallUp here in the northeast they are grown all over and are huge. Hard to carry huge.
