HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Halloween isn’t even my favorite holiday, but seeing as it’s the official day this Saturday, I couldn’t help but talk more about it—-but don’t worry, this will be my last pumpkin post, alright?

Choosing your pumpkin at the pumpkin patch is only half the process of the Halloween pumpkin fun. (Try saying that five times fast!) Once home, they empty the guts, or insides, of the pumpkin so that they can then carve the pumpkin with an expressive face or design. I remember that when I was a child, I always carved happy faces on my pumpkins. My brother always preferred scary faces. What face would you put on your pumpkin?
Hopefully it would be a little happier than the pumpkin in the photo above. Traditionally a candle is placed inside the pumpkin after it is carved to illuminate the expression. While children dressed as witches, ghosts, wizards, and in all other sorts of costumes go from house to house saying “Trick or Treat,” they see the carved and illuminated pumpkins at the doorsteps of the houses.

I hope you all celebrate this special holiday. Dress up in costume! Carve a pumpkin! Eat sweets! Have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

The Pumpkin Patch!

Fall is here and as we put away our flip-flops and short-sleeves, say goodbye to the summer warmth and begin to prepare ourselves for colder weather, I am reminded of one of my most favorite American traditions. While it's not unusual to dread the yearly transition of summer into fall there's one thing that, since my childhood, has always made me look forward to the month of October with excited anticipation...Halloween and all the fun traditions that go along with it!

My very favorite: The Pumpkin Patch.

Around this time every year, thousands of Americans head to the pumpkin patch to pick their very own pumpkin. Walking along the pumpkin farm (referred to as a pumpkin "patch"), everyone searches for the perfect pumpkin to take home with them. It can be big or small, round or oddly-shaped, bright orange or even green--it all depends on what you want!