A rare Thursday post mostly to show you A.'s pride and joy:
A. calls it The Plumpkin.
This came from some random seeds of a squash that hybridized. Quite obviously one of the parents was the Atlantic Giant A. grew a couple of years ago, because it got bigger than any pumpkin we've ever had. A. was very excited about it, and decided he just had to make it into a jack -o'-lantern to put by our front gate. So he did.
My contribution to the Halloween decorations was on the table, of course.
Orange zinnias, cosmos, and calendulas, plus some buffalo gourds.
A seasonally appropriate breakfast table.
We will of course be trick-or-treating in the village this evening. This year, we'll have an Arab, Jim Corbett, a lumberjack, and a ballerina. My most important job for the costuming is doing a proper ballerina bun for Poppy. It involves rolling her very long hair around a sock, and it's harder than it seems.
Wish me luck, and happy Halloween! Are you doing anything fun?
5 comments:
I'm thinking that a certain someone will be the ONLY Jim Corbett in the U.S.
Jim Corbett was a proper all round mountain type wild man.
COVID here. Sad Halloween.
Glad your family is well enough to enjoy Trick or Treating.
Jim Corbett is new one to me! Thanks for the link. My kid made a pillager costume which looked great, but about 20 houses in trick or treating, he fell down some steps and decided that was enough. And the squirrel ate out pumpkin I was going to use as a jack-o-lantern, so I didn't have one. Low key for us!
I read up on the Man-Eaters of Kumaon too - thank you for pointing me towards a topic I never had found by myself.
We had a very low key Halloween with a dragon and a little girl too tired to dress up.
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