the fires last week delayed our entire life by one week - we did not even start carving pumpkins until the night before halloween. J is very fond of the book 'too many pumpkins', which tells the story of Rebecca Estelle who hated these vegetables most of her life because she was forced to eat them when she was a child when there was not much money too buy any other food. when a pumpkin truck drove by her house and dropped a pumpkin, causing the seeds to sprout the next spring, she frantically tried to get of them, to no avail. that fall dozens of pumpkins grew in her front yard, and she needed a way to get rid of them. they were too heavy to cart away, so she decided to make all sorts of pumpkin dishes, and carved several more, some of which had the word 'boo' written on them. the candles in them made the glow at night and attracted the towns people, who were invited into the house to try all of the pumkin goodies she made, and even take some home, along with a jack o'lantern and roasted pumpkin seeds. all Rebecca kept was a handful of seeds, ready for next year's pumpkin harvest.
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