October 11th, 2009 by Sha

10/13 UPDATE: We had so much fun with the first three pumpkins Saturday night that we did in fact head out to the Chimney Rock Organic Farm pumpkin patch on Sunday. The pumpkin patch was a blast; I hadn’t tromped through one in more years than I’d care to remember. We bought three large pumpkins and three small ones; pictured at left is the Haunted House pumpkin I carved Monday, Oct. 13. I’ve still got a template of a witch flying on a broom, that will probably be the one I do today. Then I think I’ll do scary pumpkin faces with the little ones we bought. Our neighbor has horses so we’re going to ask if we can borrow two hay bales to make a display with our carved pumpkins by the front door. So come back again over the next week to see more photos from our Halloween 2009 pumpkin extravaganza! 10/31 UPDATE: Well, it came and went and I did not finish the Halloween porch decorations. I got busy, and we had a small but unexpected snowfall on the 25th that made us realize we are not quite ready for winter and we’d better get on it before the real snows come.

Yesterday we celebrated fall and the harvest season with an old fashioned pumpkin carving. Pete and I wanted to do something different, so I got online and found some cool pumpkin carving templates at SpookMaster.com. Pete and I carved a black cat pumpkin (shown at left), Pete’s son Connor carved a ghost pumpkin, and his friend Caleb carved a pumpkin head of his own design (click on the image at left to see the full image of all three pumpkins). After we got done carving the pumpkins we lit them and put them on the patio, then we lit a fire in the chiminea and roasted marshmallows while we watched our spooky pumpkins glow in the darkness of night. It was so much fun that we are going to the local organic farm today to buy more pumpkins to carve! (BTW – Chimney Rock Certified Organic Farm is for sale, click here to view the property.)