Last Night

We had a record Halloween! Kids just kept coming and coming, brought in by the carload, the truckload, and even the trailer-load (Someone had made a kind of Halloween float on a flatbed, decorated it with "gravestones" and put a fog machine and a bubble machine on it, and then loaded it up with kids.) Our son's girlfriend came by with her kids for a while. There were some really adorable little ones, and it was a blast seeing how many of the parents dressed up to take their kids around. The best was a parent dressed as the "Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man" from Ghostbusters and two kids dressed up as the Ghostbusters, complete with proton packs! We had loads of compliments on our decorations from parents and kids, and at least three of the kids told us we had the "coolest house in town"!

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Crossposted from halloween_moot.

Pumpkins

I had to run out to the store this afternoon to pick up a few items, and Walmart had their big pumpkins on sale for .01!!!!!!!!!! That's right: one cent!

I picked up 5 of them. I'm planning to use them for Thanksgiving decorating, but I'd rather not waste them. I know you can freeze pumpkin, but I've never done that before.

Has anyone put up fresh pumpkin in the freezer? What's the best way to do that? Will they be all right uncut on the porch for a couple of weeks?