Happy Halloween!

Handsome devil, eh?

Rather than trick-or-treating tonight, we took the kids to a spooky old farm that’s in a sorry state of disrepair. But every Halloween, they put on display about 1000 carved pumpkins. Most of them other people carve and then bring back for the owners here to arrange. It’s a neat little walk, probably takes 10 to 15 minutes all told.

Here’s a little sample of the pumpkins. A lot of them are just quick and dirty faces, but the more intricately carved ones they give a little more prominent display. They had over 1200 pumpkins in all this year.

This one struck me as the coolest carving. That’s a big pumpkin too, easily the size of the boy’s head…

I tried to tweet the two pumpkin pictures, but they appear to be in purgatory or something, since they have yet to appear in my feed.

I also managed to spook the Wife, the boy and the lass. The most amusing part is they all knew it was coming, but I got them anyway. The boy and the lass kept insisting I didn’t scare them, but based on the adrenalized reaction I got from them (kicking and swinging arms and very vociferous denials) it was obvious they were in denial. Just a quick grab and “AHHH!” was all it took for all three.

It never gets old.

The kids then kept trying to return the favor. They were way to obvious about it though. Still, they had fun trying.