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October 31, 2006
A Pumpkin by any other name is still a Pumpkin
Happy Halloween! Vote for your favorite, and least favorite pumpkins for the 6th annual Pumpkin-Fest. This year there are 21 gourds to choose from. Unfortunately, the pictures are even more sloppy then in past years as it was a bit of a rush job (we were short on candles due to loss of electricity).
See the pictures of Pumpkin-Fest day.
UPDATE: Congratulations to Martha Crouse and her pumpkin Hagatha for winning Pumpkin-Master with 19% of the vote. And to Sara Mahoney for getting a whopping 26% of the vote for Pumpkin-Head with “Van Gogh” - A truly inspired bad pumpkin.
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It started as a hobby, descended into a sport, and then … into madness
The 6th annual Pumpkin-Fest, as it is now referred to, was held in the metropolis of Newburgh, ME, where it had been in two previous years. For 5 years we have had decent weather, if not warm at least not rainy…until this year. The winds raged over the old farmhouse and when it blew the right direction one of the large roof tiles on the barn would clatter sounding as if the entire roof was falling in. Tucked in the large garage, safe from the biting winds, this years Pumpkin Carvers worked diligently. It would be several hours before the last of the tired butchers stumbled out and the last pumpkin had felt it’s last cut. But this year there would be an additional complication for those later arrivers. The storm eventually took our electricity. Working by candlelights and flashlights, we finished and lit all the pumpkins.
Come see pictures of Pumpkin-Fest 2006. Voting will be up soon.
October 27, 2006
The Neighborhood
I find myself again sitting on photos a long time before even looking at them, as I used to do with film. In fact, I still have at least a dozen canisters of film yet to be developed from at least 6 or 7 years ago. It’s like a time capsule, I’ve always loved going through photos that I’d forgotten.
This event however, was from less than 5 months ago, and was a Neighborhood Picnic. Unfortunately it rained that day yet we still had a good turnout. Tune Buggy played out of my garage and patches here and there of sun without rain allowed the kids to play some to the music. It was a fun thing to visit with the neighbors we knew and meet those we didn’t.
