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Here's a preview of our porch squash, after we spent hours on Wednesday carving them:

Carving out those two hands from one pumpkin was seriously hard. It took us over an hour to get the details right! I really need some better pumpkin-carving-knives.

The big angry one is eating the little ones, and then we have the other guy off to the side just "ohnoes!"-like. :D

I'll be adding to this later (probably while the trick-o'-treaters are coming around), when it's dark again and we've added the rest of our decorations for the evening. In addition, I roasted the seeds from 3 of the pumpkins with a sweet/salty mixture (butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and orange peel) and tonight I'm cooking beef stew with squash, turnips and sundried tomatoes.

Later on I'm going to commune with my mom's deceased dad. I've been kind of doing this unofficially every year, but this year I'm going to encourage J to join in, as well. I know he has a few people he'd like to pay homage to in that respect.

Be safe, everyone, and have a great holiday, no matter how you spend it! ♥