Here is why it took us until the day of Halloween to actually do pumpkins! Every evening that I was not working we would have very good intentions of launching the pumpkin carving scheme. We would clean up dinner, walk into the living room, and this....
Eric headed up the gutting, deseeding, disgusting aspect of the pumpkin project...
Here I carved Ava's large pumpkin on the right, and Eric carved Eli's on the left. I will send a box of chocolates to the first person to correctly identify both...I will give you a hint: Eric's is not a skinny cat jumping over a princess crown, and mine is not a molar parachuting while fireworks go off...
The little fairy princess poses with the, um, jack-o-lanterns.
Eli the wonder chicken takes a little nap while he waits for trick-or-treating to begin. We took the kids onto base to trick-or-treat. At the first house we stopped at, Ava stood at the door yelling, "TRICK-OR-TREAT!" until the startled inhabitants opened the door. Ava marched inside, took off her coat and shoes, announced, "I'm a fairy princess" and sat down on their floor. After that we had to go over the "rules of engagement" for trick-or-treating!
Here is why it took us until the day of Halloween to actually do pumpkins! Every evening that I was not working we would have very good intentions of launching the pumpkin carving scheme. We would clean up dinner, walk into the living room, and this....
Eric headed up the gutting, deseeding, disgusting aspect of the pumpkin project...
Here I carved Ava's large pumpkin on the right, and Eric carved Eli's on the left. I will send a box of chocolates to the first person to correctly identify both...I will give you a hint: Eric's is not a skinny cat jumping over a princess crown, and mine is not a molar parachuting while fireworks go off...
The little fairy princess poses with the, um, jack-o-lanterns.
Eli the wonder chicken takes a little nap while he waits for trick-or-treating to begin. We took the kids onto base to trick-or-treat. At the first house we stopped at, Ava stood at the door yelling, "TRICK-OR-TREAT!" until the startled inhabitants opened the door. Ava marched inside, took off her coat and shoes, announced, "I'm a fairy princess" and sat down on their floor. After that we had to go over the "rules of engagement" for trick-or-treating!
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The one on the left is a crude yet obvious depiction of an F-14 Tomcat flying over the Pamir mountain region of Central Asia, while the pumpkin on the right is a unique and unmistakably wonderful interpretation of Claude Monet's Iris 1914.
My favorite picture of this set is the first one - awwwww!
The pumpkin on the left is potentially an angry, one-eyed pirate and the pumpkin on the right depicts an adorable fairy who has come to look over her flower kingdom.
papaw says:Scots on the right track but the one on the right is a B1 bomber flying over the Rockies.The one on the right is a fairy flying through the Vincent Van Gogh painting "Starry Starry Night."
Drew and I missed our trick or treat buddies this year. I love the story of Ava's bold entrance....wish I could have been there to see it.
I don't know what the little pumpkin is, but Ava's appears to be butterflies and fairies over flowers. Very original designs, good work Mommy.
Once upon a time there was the O’Lantern Family.
For your edification, the photograph called into question is actually “The O’Lantern Family Portrait” traditionally taken each year for posterity just before the High Holy Day of Halloween. (The pictured O’Lantern’s is an Irish Catholic family now living down the lane from the Conderman’s in Littleport, England. That’s the “Conderman Family Portrait” in the upper right-hand corner of the blog just so there is no confusion between the families.)
Now comes the matter of introducing the O’Lantern family members in the photo. That, of course, is Jack O’Lantern on the left and his lovely wife Jackie on the right. (It should be noted that in the pumpkin species the female is often larger than the male.) Directly in front of Jack and Jackie are their two young children, Gourdon (left) and Gourdlie (right). I need to point this out because at such young ages it is very difficult (except for those of us who are certified gourd experts) to tell the sex of the children, so you’ll just have to trust me on this.
Whereas some humans decorate their bodies with tattoos and/or body piercing jewelry, pumpkins tend to go in for body paint and ultimate extreme body piercing, a.k.a., carving. While it is evident that Jackie used her good sense and went to an FDA approved artistic emporium for her body work, it is also appallingly apparent that Jack tried to take the cheap route by going to that sleazy London back alley butcher, Jack T. Riper. It should be noted that soon after the portrait picture was taken, Mr. Riper was arrested and convicted of both Premeditated Mutilation and CUI (Carving Under the Influence). As punishment for his crimes, his carving license has been revoked for 11 months. (So, he’ll be back in business again around October 1, 2008. What date is Halloween again? You get the picture.)
I mentioned beforehand that the O’Lantern’s are Catholic. How do I know this you ask? Well it is obvious that they are followers of the late Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, whose theme was: “If everyone lit just one little candle, what a bright world this would be.” Note that both Jack and Jackie espouse the single candle theme, ergo, Catholic. (The children are not old enough to be “candled” yet.)
Also, similar to human Catholics who believe in Saints and Angels, pumpkins believe in “Fairies.” The portrait photographer was lucky enough to capture the O’Lantern’s “Guardian Fairy” Ava as she looks down from on-high. But you will also see in the picture that Fairy Ava is wingless! That is because (like angels) she had not yet earned her wings. (Check out angel Clarence in the Jimmy Stewart classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” if you need further enlightenment as to the “getting his/her wings” process.) Anyway, to make this long story short, the winglessness for Fairy Ava was resolved on Halloween when she helped her “Chicken” brother Eli discover the “Wonderful World of Chocolate” and they all lived happily ever after. (After all, this is a “fairy tale.”)
The End
p.s.: You do know what happens to bad pumpkins don’t you. They go straight to HELL in the form of a pie baking at 375F for 40 minutes in the oven on Thanksgiving! Thank goodness for bad little pumpkins. Yummo! Pass the whipped cream please.
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