Every October Meggie and her family would go to a farm stand near Lexington and pick out a pumpkin for Halloween. Sometimes Meggie found a tiny pumpkin and she would keep it in the house. She wanted to put it on her dresser but it usually ended up on the dining room table, where she would make a display with leaves and a few twigs.
Another favorite Halloween tradition was drawing a face on the pumpkin for Dad to carve out. They usually decided on a friendly face, not too scary. One year Meggie said, “It should only have one tooth because it didn’t go to the dentist”. So the pumpkin had a smile and one lonely tooth.
Sometimes they took the seeds from the pumpkin, washed them and put them on a cookie sheet to bake in the oven. Meggie would eat a few but she didn’t like them nearly as much as her favorite Halloween treat – candy corn! Her Mom said, “You can have a few but not too many. You’ll get a stomach ache. Remember last year?” It’s true that Meggie ate too much candy corn and had a stomach ache but she didn’t care. She just wanted more candy corn!
Pumpkins, with or without faces, are delightful to see in October.
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My favorite candy is Candy Corn too, though I don’t eat it any more. A lovely October post. I hope you get to the pumpkin patch. 🙂
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Thank you Diana – I’m looking forward to picking out a pumpkin and eating too much candy corn!
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Candy corn is my favouite too! I confess, I do sneak a few at Halloween!
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I’m surprised that I still like candy corn – I’m thinking about buying some today!
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🤗🤗🤗
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I gave up sugar, a couple of years ago, but there are a few sweets that are hard to resist! Candy Corn is one of them. 🙂
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And they are also really cute and colorful!
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They come in so many fabulous shapes and sizes, Meg 🙂 🙂
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It makes it really fun – and challenging – to pick just one when they are so unique Jo!
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Nice post. Candy corn is wonderful, but I try to limit my sugar intake. My granddaughter simply loves candy corn.
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Thanks – I am still working on portion control with candy corn!
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I love the photo with all the different sizes of pumpkins and squashes, and it was framed beautifully. Great post.
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Thank you Geri – I think pumpkins are so much fun to photograph!
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