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I love pumpkins. Love, love, love pumpkins. Eating them, carving them, just kinda lookin' at them. When I was growing up, the choosing of the pumpkin was a ritual--we went to the farm, my mom got a big one, and my brother and I each got our own of increasing size as we aged. You had to decide what you were going to carve ahead of time, so you could pick the absolute perfect pumpkin for your design from the hundreds available. This choosing might take a good ten or fifteen minutes or more as you examined every available pumpkin for appropriate size, shape, color, lack of blemishes, roundness, appropriately curly stem and so on.
I have not been able to get a hang of pumpkin choosing here. Our supermarket carries them, but not very many. Chuckro always resists me getting mine "too early", and then when I go to choose, the few left are lumpy and ugly and not the gloriously golden orange and rounded specimens of my youth. He's always worried it will get moldy before I can carve it. Sometimes, they will get an extra shipment in a day or two before Halloween, but it cannot be counted upon and I always miss it. There is nowhere else that gets full sized pumpkins that is close enough to our apartment for me to be able to get one home.
This year, I heard about the incipient pumpkin shortage (terrible weather conditions, and hurricane ruined a lot of the crop). So I put my foot down and chose my pumpkin at the beginning of the month. It was a little lumpy, but not too bad. I may have been right to worry--there are no big pumpkins whatsoever left at the store.
But we came home from vacation, and mine was squishy and covered in mold.
:(
I have three pie pumpkins, little guys. It's not the same. But I'll try to make them do.
I have not been able to get a hang of pumpkin choosing here. Our supermarket carries them, but not very many. Chuckro always resists me getting mine "too early", and then when I go to choose, the few left are lumpy and ugly and not the gloriously golden orange and rounded specimens of my youth. He's always worried it will get moldy before I can carve it. Sometimes, they will get an extra shipment in a day or two before Halloween, but it cannot be counted upon and I always miss it. There is nowhere else that gets full sized pumpkins that is close enough to our apartment for me to be able to get one home.
This year, I heard about the incipient pumpkin shortage (terrible weather conditions, and hurricane ruined a lot of the crop). So I put my foot down and chose my pumpkin at the beginning of the month. It was a little lumpy, but not too bad. I may have been right to worry--there are no big pumpkins whatsoever left at the store.
But we came home from vacation, and mine was squishy and covered in mold.
:(
I have three pie pumpkins, little guys. It's not the same. But I'll try to make them do.
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Date: 2011-10-26 05:58 pm (UTC)From:I bought two pumpkins in September. One of them rotted away two weeks ago while I wasn't paying attention, which is the saddest thing ever. Because it was an adorable little pumpkin. My teeny-tiny desk pumpkin is still with me, still violently orange, but it's increasingly covered with spots. I fear I will walk into work to find it fallen apart from being devoured within one day.
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Date: 2011-10-26 07:12 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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