Friday, October 31, 2025

Fence pumpkin

 We always grow pumpkins in our garden and if you know much about pumpkins you know they have a tendency to spread. And to climb everything. That's how this happened:


When I spotted the pumpkin growing through the fence I figured it would rot. The wire would cut into the skin and that would be that. Or the deer would find it and eat it. No way it would ripen. Turns out, I was wrong. That thing turned a nice bright orange. Freeing it from the fence turned out to be a simple matter of cutting a single wire. 


That is a pumpkin begging to be carved. At first I thought the crease would be a good brow line but it really wanted to be a mouth. The more I thought about it the more it reminded me of this lesser known muppet:


And here's my version:


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