A mere three days after Halloween and our pumpkin is already decomposing. So much so that the gourd is covered in black mold, a liquid has started to seep from the bottom (look Mama, the pumpkin is going pee!) and there is a snail living on the side (not for long).
I'm going to need a hazmat suit to get this thing into the trash.
[ ] what to with the rotting pumpkin has been a Mom's delimma from the dawn of time, hasn't it? Will you let it go down to mush as an educational experience?
Posted by: Something Else | 11/03/2006 at 09:41 AM
If you live where it's cold you can use the age old "let it freeze solid" technique before cleaning it up.
Posted by: sdede2 | 11/03/2006 at 09:47 AM
That is one SCARY pumpkin!
Posted by: Doc Paradox | 11/03/2006 at 09:54 AM
That reminds me; I have 3 jacks sitting on my front porch because I never brought them in after Halloween. Since we never use the front door, I'd forgotten about them. I'd better go clean them up before I have to hose them down. Yuck. And the garbage already came today too!
Posted by: Essy | 11/03/2006 at 11:23 AM
Our pumkin looked like this at 4:00 p.m. Halloween... after my son lit a 'black cat' off inside his pumpkin. Boys!
Posted by: It's Come To This... | 11/03/2006 at 11:38 AM
Oh wow...that's a frightful sight. Poor Mr. Pumpkin. Decomposition happened muy quick...hope it's not too ick to get cleaned up - hazmat suit could indeed be needed. ;)
Posted by: Cri de Coeur | 11/03/2006 at 01:53 PM
[this is good] When confronted with a mess like that, I pull my handy-dandy husband out of my back pocket and make him clean it up. Or I use a shovel.
Posted by: Yvette Ivy | 11/03/2006 at 03:02 PM
Karen, please don't take this wrong, but.... look at the pumpkin, and then look at your avatar photo. I think it's the eyebrows. Is there any chance the original artist was using you as a model?
Posted by: Mark | 11/03/2006 at 11:31 PM
Now you're just being mean.
Posted by: karen | 11/04/2006 at 10:09 AM
We had a pumpkin craving contest at work as week ago Friday. When I came into work Monday this is pretty much what mine looked like. Ewww.
Posted by: Sooz | 11/04/2006 at 02:59 PM
Take a shovel and toss it in the back of your garden. It will make great compost! Just make sure there aren't any seeds left in there. I had a girlfriend throw a rotting pumpkin (not a jack, it had the seeds and everything) in her yard, and that summer she had a pumpkin patch!
Posted by: Kapolnek Family | 11/05/2006 at 10:35 AM
Oh goodness... I had to get my husband to take ours outside and get rid of it - it was just as bad! I don't understand why they're all rotting so early this year... *shudders*
Posted by: Angela | 11/06/2006 at 09:30 AM