brokenmusicbox
Freakzoid
I can't do limericks but I enjoy reading what everyone else writes.
I DID enter the pumpkin carving contest and while I know I won't win, it is a zombie pumpkin. Seriously!
Last Halloween I saw this one just calling to me. I carve my pumpkins Halloween afternoon, just a marker and a knife, and last year I was very late getting started. When I stuck the knife in I was shocked how hard it was. I just couldn't get the knife to cut! I wasn't going to be defeated by a vegetable!! I got out power tools and carved it enough to be passable in the dark. The next morning I usually cut up the pumpkins for cooking but no way was I going to mess with this one more. (Although I did roast the seeds). I put it in my yard to rot.
And it didn't rot!!
Days, weeks, months! Rain pooling in it. It just sat there! Everyone did double takes. Finally my father saw it and took it back to the shop at the family business where it got buried and forgotten. Until now...
The pumpkin had dried out and gone pale. The outer skin had flaked and peeled and some places the flesh had cracked. It looked like a zombie! So I grabbed the first loose human Sideshow figure I had handy and took a few bad pictures. They really do not show undead look of it.
It probably wouldn't even qualify for the contest as it "died" last year but I thought someone might find the "zombie" pumpkin amusing.
I DID enter the pumpkin carving contest and while I know I won't win, it is a zombie pumpkin. Seriously!
Last Halloween I saw this one just calling to me. I carve my pumpkins Halloween afternoon, just a marker and a knife, and last year I was very late getting started. When I stuck the knife in I was shocked how hard it was. I just couldn't get the knife to cut! I wasn't going to be defeated by a vegetable!! I got out power tools and carved it enough to be passable in the dark. The next morning I usually cut up the pumpkins for cooking but no way was I going to mess with this one more. (Although I did roast the seeds). I put it in my yard to rot.
And it didn't rot!!
Days, weeks, months! Rain pooling in it. It just sat there! Everyone did double takes. Finally my father saw it and took it back to the shop at the family business where it got buried and forgotten. Until now...
The pumpkin had dried out and gone pale. The outer skin had flaked and peeled and some places the flesh had cracked. It looked like a zombie! So I grabbed the first loose human Sideshow figure I had handy and took a few bad pictures. They really do not show undead look of it.
It probably wouldn't even qualify for the contest as it "died" last year but I thought someone might find the "zombie" pumpkin amusing.
Click click click... hold still! click click... oh... hrrmm. 
