Now that Halloween is over I wasn’t sure what to do with the rotten pumpkin on my step. If were still in Idaho I'd turn it backwards and leave it as an Autumn decoration for a few more weeks. However, in Texas it's way too humid for that, pumpkins rot really quick here. If I were still a teenager, I would've loaded it up with about 30 other pumpkins and made a road block. Or just smashed them on the road somewhere. Or even piled them on a friend's doorstep or car as a lovely present. The options are endless with Jack O’Lanterns.
Isn't this thing gross!?
Anyway, staring at the penicillin-filled pumpkin on my porch it seemed mildly inappropriate for a grown girl to smash a pumpkin. 
So, I invited my nieces to.
But, the nasty thing was so moldy that we couldn’t even pick it up. I ended up putting it in a plastic bag and then the girls jumped on it. Then we threw it away. I suppose that was the grown-up thing to do.
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Oh! That thing is SO gross. Did it smell?
Oh my goodness that is so gross! I didn't know they turned into that! I always buy pumkins...but then we end up eating them. in fact, I have one in the oven right now :)
I have missed reading your blog!
Just to be clear - at what age is it inappropriate to drop pumpkins from immense heights or line them up as a road block?
Let's say 50 and call it good.
I hear you..... we had two of them. They had disintegrated to about half their original height, smelled incredibly rank and when I finally disposed of them the fruit fly frenzy was nasty! I had to hose down the porch from all the nasty pumpkin-mold juice.
So I made pumpkin pie. :-)
Yuck! I did the same thing last year, all my pumpkins sat out front until mid december and it was a pretty gross haul to the garbage can.
I like your caramel apples; I'll have to try those one day!
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