This year's pumpkin carving was a minor disaster. Normally the pumpkins I buy for carving keep very well after carving, but this year they didn't. The complicated carving takes a couple of hours or more for each pumpkin so I usually start a few days before Halloween. Normally they still look nice and fresh on Halloween night. I'm sure the very warm day time temperatures for several days before the 31st and the not very cold nights didn't help, but I also think it had something to do with the locally grown pumpkin varieties just not keeping as well as what I'm used to.
So that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Here is a photo of the only carved pumpkin worthy of posting. It is, of course, the last pumpkin I carved on Halloween day, so it was fresh and not wilted.
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