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Add pumpkin pie spice huh? That's an idea. Of course...my grandma would have a fit if I lit any candles. If I carve a pumpkin it's usually out on the porch with newspapers spread around.
I like both too, although it's kind of a pain disposing of the old one once it gets rotten...and kind of sad. Although the pumpkin will help bring life to new plants...in that compost heap of my dad's! Haha.
I'm thinking about trying to carve watermelon sometime.

I am in Red Neck Central here in Tennessee. After Halloween the pumpkins go into a line-up. My husband, son and whoever else wants to, take turns at target practice. Both guns and arrows find their way to my prize pumpkins. What is left becomes food for the local wildlife.

shanda wrote:I am in Red Neck Central here in Tennessee. After Halloween the pumpkins go into a line-up. My husband, son and whoever else wants to, take turns at target practice. Both guns and arrows find their way to my prize pumpkins. What is left becomes food for the local wildlife.

i'm right here below you on the alabama/ georgia line i'm done some pumpkin shootin before hahahha (imagine a terrible redneck accent) lol we take as many as we can for pies and cakes and the rest we do the exact same with

Everyone here takes there pumpkins on November 1st and puts them along the roads on the far sides of the ditches. It's not rare to see them on stumps or on some roacky cliffs...I often wonder how some people manage to get them there lol Then at night the h-core halloweeners go back out and light their pumpkins and others with half burned candels still in them.

...Kinda creepy but cool when you're driving along the forest and you see these random faces staring at you at night :p

i think that would be so neat to just be randomly driving and see random pumpkin faces starring at you

adrian wrote:i think that would be so neat to just be randomly driving and see random pumpkin faces starring at you

It really is quite cool and remember that I'm not talking just a few...there are hundreds along the main-ish roads here...the only issue that people have with it, is it brings the wildlife (bears, cougars, eagles, you name it) right up to the road because they see and think "oh! easy snack!" so needless to say it isn't rare to see a bunch of road kill for a good month but other than that it's awesome

oh wow yea that could be bad..

adrian wrote:oh wow yea that could be bad..

Yeah but at least people now put them on the far sides of the ditches which helped a ton

Firefighter_Barbie wrote:Everyone here takes there pumpkins on November 1st and puts them along the roads on the far sides of the ditches. It's not rare to see them on stumps or on some roacky cliffs...I often wonder how some people manage to get them there lol Then at night the h-core halloweeners go back out and light their pumpkins and others with half burned candels still in them.

...Kinda creepy but cool when you're driving along the forest and you see these random faces staring at you at night :p

I wish my town did that!! Sounds like a lot of fun and its a good way to keep the spirit going into November. Hmmm maybe i'll start that here this year .

One of my neighbors keeps a sheet hung off a tree in his woods (which are seen easily from the road), and it looks EXACTLY like a ghost. The first time I saw it I almost jumped out of my car seat .

MyersFan1 wrote: I wish my town did that!! Sounds like a lot of fun and its a good way to keep the spirit going into November. Hmmm maybe i'll start that here this year .

One of my neighbors keeps a sheet hung off a tree in his woods (which are seen easily from the road), and it looks EXACTLY like a ghost. The first time I saw it I almost jumped out of my car seat .

Haha a neighbour of mine did something similar too but so many people called it a "driving distraction" he was ordered to take it down

Oh and with the pumpkins, it's one of those things tht if one person does it, everyone will, so it shouldn't be too hard to start

i think i'll start it too

adrian wrote:i think i'll start it too

Awesome!

Hehe I love starting new halloween trends