Mold o'lantern

We didn't take a photo of our jack o'lantern until Booby suddenly realized the entire inside was carpeted in fuzzy grey mold. Mmm! Better than last year, though, when I placed my little pumpkin on the mantle, only to have it go bad almost immediately. I only noticed the carnage after it left a trail of slimy pumpkin fluids down the fireplace onto the hearth. It was not unlike the CSI where they find the decomposed bodies in the trunk. Damn you, Produce Junction! You're worse than the Italian Market with supplying produce that looks fine until you go to use it, and your finger perforates its skin on contact (true story!).

This year's pumpkin got lots of compliments from the neighborhood kids. I ended up not using the templates I had downloaded, because suddenly it just seemed like a lot of work, and thoroughly un-visceral.