HomeGrown Pumpkin

My son has a tendency to collect things including different kinds of seeds.  One of the many seeds that he saved from last year is a pumpkin.  He planted the  pumpkin seed in our backyard and  had some fruits but only one have matured.

We were all very impatient for  the pumpkin to turn  orange but it just got bigger and bigger.  

I wasn't able to turn this pumpkin because I was afraid that it would rot again ju0st like the first one that we turned.

So when we picked it, the  side that was laying on the ground was orange but the rest of it are green.  It weighed 64.2 pounds,  I tried to lift it but couldn't lol.

I found this Cheshire Cat design online and we tried to  carve our pumpkin  using this design.

I was very surprised that the inside of the pumpkin don't really have a lot of  string (not sure what the inside part is called lol).

 I love the inside part, iot looks  a little spooky.

 Using our paring knife, we carved it.

 Carving a huge pumpkin is hard especially that we did not have proper utensils to carve it.

 

 It did not really tuned out like the Cheshire Cat that we are trying to do but close enough.

 I don't really decorate for Halloween but the kids want something so this is the only thing we have in our front porch.

Have a safe and fun Halloween everyone!

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