Poor pumpkin

Our poor jack-o-lantern barely made it to Halloween this year. We carved the pumpkin on the 21st, right after we came home from the field trip to the pumpkin patch. It gave us a great 10 days. And then I had to push it into my flower bed, where it landed with a wet plop because it was already filled with mold and half-rotted.

Oh November, forced to witness the yearly slaughter of thousands of good pumpkins. At least some of us also use them for pie. Though most folks simply use the canned stuff which might not even be pumpkin at all. http://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/what-is-in-canned-pumpkin-article

To the legions of discarded pumpkins in the post-Halloween throes of early November, this is for you.

Hope you're having a better Thursday than that poor pumpkin.