Pumpkin Destruction Aftermath

The pumpkin part went pretty well, although attendance was low.

Some interesting jack-o-lanterns were created, including a Michael Jackson “Thriller” image, one painted with lipstick, and a snowman pumpkin made with white pumpkins. Also notable was one that ended up with a pitchfork through its (lack of a) brain, and one that looked as though it really got into the whole body piercing thing.

Some met loud and violent ends in the back yard, which resulted in the neighbor yelling at us (the neighbor who lets his brainless dog bark late into the night, revs the engines on his old crappy big-engine cars he works on, and has back yard BBQs with drunk people laughing raucously).

Glenn didn’t remember (from Angie’s party) that the explosive has two charges - the propulsion charge, then the big one. So when the first one made a small noise and a puff of smoke, Glenn started saying how disappointing it was, and was cut off by the business end of that little firework. We got that on video, but Liz totally lost control of the camera in all of the excitement (I should have used the tripod). I’ll see if I can edit the video and cut the interesting portions of it into a separate video, so you don’t have to watch 3:52 of a sickeningly swinging camera and people talking in order to see the good bits.

Overall, not a bad day.