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

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!