The pumpkins that we got last weekend needed some carving so we invited a bunch of people over to carve with us. We got some really, really cool pumpkins out of the deal thanks in large part to Art, Amanda’s boyfriend, bringing a pumpkin carving kit of little saws and stencil designs. Thao and Thai and some of their friends showed up for a little while just to say hi but didn’t carve pumpkins. Brian and Bridgid carved theirs without stencils and had to leave a bit early to get up the next day and run a race in costumes. Jesse and Deborah also did their own designs, Jesse carving 4 faces into his pumpkin, one on each side. Art made an amazing pumpkin with the face of their new puppy in it, his own design. Jessie (sp?) carved a cute pumpkin with freckles. Kim, Amanda and I all used stencils and I’m a big fan. I’ve never used them before and it makes me want to do it more often, or even better, design my own. Jacob finished his pumpkin carving of the symbol for pi late as can be expected of Jacob.
Kim made and awesome pumpkin pie where everything was from scratch except the crust. I was just sorry she was nice enough to share it with everyone because I only got one piece :-( We roasted everyone’s pumpkin seeds too, so we made out good on that deal. Mmmmm, pumpkin seeds.
Art and Amanda slept over rather than going back to Bremerton late, and today we went to the farmer’s market in the U-District. It was a gorgeous sunny day for it and I wore shorts and a t-shirt. After filling up on samples at the market we went to the dog park at Magnuson Park to give Art and Amanda’s puppy Gretchan some exercise and social interaction. I’ve never been to a dog park and it was a blast. It was really fun watching all the dog – dog, dog – people, and people – people interactions. I’m frequently surprised that dogs even recognize each other as the same species since so many of them look soooo different from each other. The park is really big and goes all the way to the water where dogs chase all kinds of toys into the water to retrieve them.
Art and Amanda went back to Bremerton and Kim is off tonight doing volunteer work at some cooking event to satisfy her community service requirement for her culinary program. So I’m writing, researching and programming. Weekends need to be longer cause I get so much more done than I do during the week.