fall already

[jazzfish]

It's been a very long time since I carved a pumpkin. I'd almost forgotten how much it looks like a cavern filled with spiderwebs and hanging jewels, how goopy and stringy and squishy the innards are, how they coat your hand when you're cleaning them out.

I pretty well remembered my acuity with the pumpkin carving knife, which is why my jack o'lantern is a fairly normal triangle-eyed gap-toothed face. And also why the mouth is lopsided and one eye is slightly bigger than the other. It's got ears, though, which I've not come across in other pumpkins. Perhaps there will be a photo or two later.

I'd also not forgotten how good toasted roasted salted pumpkin seeds are. Like sunflower seeds, without the annoying fibrous hull.

Somewhere in a hidden memory
Images float before my eyes
Of fragrant nights of straw and bonfires
And dancing 'til the next sunrise

Lime bars are cooling on the stove, I have eBear's latest beside me, and I'm in the process of trying to meet more people. I'm not precisely content but good things are on the horizon.

Comments

[rbandrews]

I couldn't get the red and blue LEDs to work right on mine, so it's a monochrome Barack O'Lantern.

Cassie's looks amazing though. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

stupid technology, work better!

[jazzfish]

I originally wanted to do a Valentine pumpkin (from MirrorMask), or a Totoro, or Guy Fawkes / V. All of those require that funky shading technique where you shave off the front of the pumpkin, though, and given my m4d c4rv1ng sk1llz0rz (and tools) I went with the more basic design.

Re: stupid technology, work better!

[rbandrews]

Yeah, me too. The Obama campaign logo isn't really that complicated when you look at it. I traced a bowl and a glass to get two circles, then sort of freehanded some curves underneath it for the stripes.

[nixve.livejournal.com]

eeee! yay! You tried the lime bars! Fantastic! :)

[jazzfish]

Haven't actually eaten them yet; we shall see how actually fantastic they are. They were fun to make, though. :)

[qtrnca.livejournal.com]

How very similar to my own evening: remembering about the goopy, cobwebby innards that remind me of the caverns I've never seen, carving none too well but with dedication to the task, then being pleasantly surprised by baked pumpkin seeds (better warm, I think).

No ears on my pumpkin but Steve carved out ears on his pumpkin, bear ears.

pumpkins with ears are awesome

[jazzfish]

Seeds are. . . better when warm, but they're by no means bad when cold.

Happy autumn, and happy samhain. (Or whatever adjective might be appropriate for samhain.)

[europasings.livejournal.com]

Roasted pumpkin seeds are awesome. I had them for the first time I can recall this year. nummy, nummy!

yay for fall!!

crunchy and salty and delicious

[jazzfish]

I feel like I've been waiting all my life for autumn this year. Nice to see it finally bothering to get cold.

Re: crunchy and salty and delicious

[europasings.livejournal.com]

It's really wonderful, isn't it? I carved pumpkins for the first time in quite a while (first that wasn't required by a superior at work that is). We roasted the seeds and had hot apple cider with cinnamon sticks. And to top it all off, sw & i are going to try to go to a corn maze this weekend.

even with all my health crap, this has been a wonderful autumn now that it's finally arrived!