Carving Pumpkins
by Don Martin ~ November 6th, 2008
The vandals got my carved pumpkins last week; but I guess I should have seen it coming. I grew up in the city and I should have known better. If you carve a pumpkin, light it and leave it all alone out by the road some ne’er-do-well is almost certain to come along and smash it - it is almost like a law of nature.
Pumpkin Carving in Bent Tree
But I guess I was just legitimately distracted. Regina’s nieces were up from Mississippi for a short fall holiday and they had their 3 children aged 7 months to 3 years with them and the two oldest ones wanted to know what Halloween pumpkins were all about. We have had a seasonal display outside for several days with a couple of straw people and some pumpkins, so we pulled a couple of the pumpkins from the display out at the end of the drive and gave them scary faces and small battery operated tea lights to let them show up at night. The kids thought it was a hoot and even helped some with the carving. Then late the night we took them out to admire their handiwork and they were duly impressed with themselves.
The next morning Regina e-mailed from work to say that when she left the lights were still shining out ghoulishly from our display and so I figured I should go out and turn of the little lights so they would last another day or two. But, alas, when I looked out my office window to the end of the drive I was shocked to see 4 vandals destroying the Halloween pumpkins. I was shocked. This is a secure, gated community how could a roving gang of vandals do such a thing. I ran downstairs and as soon as I burst out of the door the cowardly vandals sprinted off into the woods. But I recognized them, it was a local family and they had been here before poaching on our land and stealing flowers and plants. I didn’t catch them in the act, but I do have file photos and so I am going to expose them once and for all right here on my blog.
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